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American rock band Clutch have announced that “the drifter has returned,” sharing a new track aptly titled “The Drifter Returns.” Dropping alongside a new lyric video, the song marks some of hte first new material from the band in a few years. The track can be found on the band’s YouTube.
The song quickly kicks off with the line “Those Georgia Guidestones, yeah/they done blowed up,” referring to a mysterious mural in the state of Georgia that was subject to many conspiracy theories from 1980 until a bombing attack in 2022 that heavily damaged them. The song continues with interesting and abstract lyrics, including the track’s main character speaking to being lost after the aforementioned destruction of the guidestones, or a confession at church that went so poorly that the protagonist “walked out the box, then straight to hell.” The lyrics all come in a rapid fire flow over the upbeat energetic drums and guitar riffing, sung with a satisfying range. The lyrics of the video are all overlaid over the somewhat off-putting image of a praying mantis twitching and staring at the viewer, coated entirely in red.
Clutch shared very little more with the track, but the simple message ending the release tells fans to prepare – “more soon.” With a fourteenth album said to have been in the works since 2024, fans may finally get to see even more from the band soon enough.
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