Clutch - Blast Tyrant (2025 Remaster)

Facts Blast Tyrant is Clutch’s sixth full-length studio album! It was originally released in March 2004 as CD only (on DRT Entertainment). Guitarist Tim Sult and crew come out firing on all cylinders on opening track Mercury, which starts out with a long instrumental passage chock full of mean, thick and ferocious riffs before vocalist NeilFallon takes command at the top of his lungs. The part-political, part-protest rock cut Mob Goes Wild was a minor hit in modern rock radio seven years ago and is still an album highlight, along with the southern rock-ish hard rock and danger zone lyrics of Cypress Grove. Other favourites include Profits of Doom, which is bass-heavy and contains some pseudo-psychedelic vocals, along with the moderately paced rock of Promoter (of Earthbound Causes), with its standout out-there and humorous lyrics like “A little bit of Ritalin goes a long way,".