Clutch have announced Clutch Wasted Lands, their fourteenth studio album, due Jan. 22, 2027, on the band’s own Weathermaker Music, and released the official video for “Beware the Fever,” the first Clutch song to use banjo. The same announcement unveiled the Give The People What They Want 2027 U.S. headline tour with Corrosion of Conformity, Agnostic Front and Chuck Ragan. That routing skips San Diego. The nearest dates are The Wiltern in Los Angeles on March 17, the Mojave Experience festival in Joshua Tree on March 20, and The Van Buren in Phoenix on March 21. General tickets go on sale Friday, Nov. 13, at 10 a.m. local time. Album pre-orders are up at clutchmerch.com.
Clutch Wasted Lands
Clutch Wasted Lands is the Maryland band’s first full-length since 2022’s Sunrise on Slaughter Beach. It was written and recorded at their longtime Frederick base, the Doom Saloon, and reunites them with producer Gene “Machine” Freeman for the first time since 2015’s Psychic Warfare. “Beware the Fever” is the third single, following “The Drifter Returns” and the title track. Neil Fallon has said the lyric is set against ghost towns of Appalachia and central Pennsylvania, “the perfect backdrop for all manner of strangeness.” He also said the music started as a lark on a poorly tuned Deering Goodtime banjo, with Jean-Paul Gaster putting a hip-hop beat under it. Drummer Gaster said the banjo heard on the album is from that first Doom Saloon demo, cut one afternoon in January 2026, after later attempts to re-record it didn’t match the original.
The Clutch Wasted Lands track list is:
- “The Drifter Returns”
- “Stage Fright”
- “Loaf ‘N Jug”
- “High Class Action Lawsuit”
- “Chestburster”
- “Beware the Fever”
- “Wound Collector”
- “Colorado Fuel and Iron”
- “Streets Are His”
- “The Green Skull”
- “Wasted Lands”
- “The Message Is Clear”
The 2027 tour skips San Diego
The announced U.S. dates behind Clutch Wasted Lands include a Feb. 5 show in Honolulu and a run that continues into early April, closing April 4 at Brooklyn Steel. San Diego is not on the list. The closest stops for local fans are:
- March 17, 2027: Los Angeles, Calif. — The Wiltern
- March 19: Las Vegas, Nev. — Brooklyn Bowl
- March 20: Joshua Tree, Calif. — Mojave Experience at Joshua Tree Lake & Resort
- March 21: Phoenix, Ariz. — The Van Buren
Corrosion of Conformity, Agnostic Front and Chuck Ragan are billed on the headline dates. The Joshua Tree appearance is a festival date without those touring support acts. Honolulu is listed with local support. Published accounts disagree about the precise start of the mainland run and about the support on at least one early date, so those details are omitted here.
Artist, local and venue presales are already in motion, with additional Knotfest.com and Blabbermouth presales set for Wednesday, Nov. 11, at 2 p.m. ET. All listed presales end Thursday, Nov. 12, at 10 p.m. local time, ahead of the Friday general sale. Clutch will also play Australia in late January 2027 with Corrosion of Conformity, beginning the day after Clutch Wasted Lands is released.
