CLUTCH: US Fall Tour

CLUTCH shares more in common with The Grateful Dead, Rush, and the Allman Brothers than their heavy riffs and heady twists-of-phrase might suggest. Because like those bands, the supporters who adore CLUTCH are there for the experience, community, and authentic connection. 

To love CLUTCH is to feel a sense of ownership, membership, and belonging. 

Seneca Valley High School classmates Neil Fallon (vocals), Tim Sult (guitar), Dan Maines (bass), and Jean-Paul Gaster (drums) share an unshakeable musical and personal bond now three decades strong. Shaped by the same region which birthed Bad Brains, Minor Threat, and Rites Of Spring, CLUTCH crafts hyper-literate and libertine jams informed by hardcore fury and fuzzy, athletic, stoner rock.

A worldwide cabal of fans and critics cherish the band’s dense and diverse catalog of underground classics, released through major labels, indies, and since 2009, Clutch’s own Weathermaker imprint. Sunrise On Slaughter Beach, the band’s thirteenth studio album, is a slamming summary of everything that makes the band great and another giant leap forward into career longevity. 

Those live shows over the years include tours with Slayer, System Of A Down, and Marilyn Manson, and more recent co-headlining treks with Dropkick Murphys, Killswitch Engage, and Mastodon. Like Slayer or Iron Maiden, CLUTCH outlasted rock bands anchored to “hit songs” and the pressure of replicating them. The foursome from Germantown, Maryland, isn’t bound by trends. Across 13 studio albums and assorted releases since 1991, they’ve earned a reputation as one of the best around.

Hailing from Bergen, Norway, Slomosa channels their surroundings into a signature hybrid of stoner rock riffage, grungy hooks, and a concentrated punk punch. The group – Ben Berdous (vocals, guitar), Marie Moe (vocals, bass), Tor Erik Bye (guitar), and Jard Hole (drums) – perfects this sound on their second full-length offering and MNRK Heavy debut LP, Tundra Rock.

‘Tundra Rock’ is ‘Desert Rock’ in our terms,” says Berdous. “A desert doesn’t have to be warm, the tundra is our desert. The grandiosity of nature is evident in the songs.”

Slomosa began nearly ten years ago as a low-pressure project among friends. Influenced by bands like Queens of the Stone Age, Nirvana, Alice In Chains, and Soundgarden, the group’s 2020 self-titled debut racked up over 10 million streams on tracks such as “Kevin,” “In My Mind’s Desert,” “There Is Nothing New Under The Sun,” and “Horses.”

In 2024, they returned to the studio with producer Erik Marinius to record Tundra Rock, expanding on the foundation of their first album. Metal Hammer (UK) praised “Slomosa’s second outing is a blistering expansion to the Norwegians’ desert rock sound […] Tundra Rock is the real deal!” Their second album continued a thunderous stride by winning the Rock category at Spellemannprisen, Norway’s most prestigious annual music award, often referred to as the “Norwegian Grammys”. Meanwhile, they played to packed crowds across Europe, scorching the stages of Alcatraz Open Air, Sweden Rock Festival and Hellfest, alongside receiving invitations to tour with the likes of Alkaline Trio, Kadavar, Helmet, and even supporting Mastodon on select dates in 2025.

In the end, Slomosa welcomes everyone into their world on Tundra Rock.

Deep in the heart of a dark, mythical land (New York) in a bygone era (2025), BLOOD VULTURE has awakened ominous, morose tales of mortality, grief, madness and obsession. The self-described “Gothic sludge” project is the brainchild of Jordan Olds, who for nearly a decade has moonlighted as Gwarsenio Hall, host of Two Minutes to Late Night, the world’s only heavy metal talk show and a place for the New York-based comedian and his friends and idols to put satirical spins on iconic songs from the likes of Fleetwood Mac and Guns N’ Roses.

Those ambitions are bigger and more cinematic on Blood Vulture’s debut LP, DIE CLOSE(Pure Noise), delivered with the narrative flair of a horror anthology and the emotional punch of a deathbed confession. Melding the emotive vocal stylings of grunge’s golden era with death metal, goth rock, and doom metal, the album blends classic and modern vampiric influences like Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Near Dark and Let The Right One In to create a mangled world with symphonic seven-string guitar swells lurking down every dark musical corridor.

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