"Red Alert (Boss Metal Zone)" isn't exactly a new song — Clutch have played the rollicking cut live a bunch of times over the last six months or so — but the studio recorded version is very new, and its elaborate Bladerunner-hailing music video is, too. The cinematic clip was directed by David Brodsky (Killswitch Engage, Cannibal Corpse) and employs the technology of the Unreal Engine. It drops the beloved funk-metal crew squarely in the middle of Philip K. Dick's dystopian world. Watch and listen above.
Clutch frontman Neil Fallon commented, "Early in 2021, I learned the Boss Metal Zone pedal schematic was being presented as 'proof' that the Covid-19 vaccine had an electronic component to communicate with 5G cellular networks. It was, of course, nonsense. It sounded like a Philip K. Dick premise. I didn't want to write a song specific to Covid-19 vaccines, so I went with the Philip K. Dick angle (again). Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? came to mind (replicants, in particular, representing what is real and not real, or is there a difference at all?). The video makes no secret that this is an homage to Philip K. Dick and a future where we have distortion coursing through our veins."
Clutch, who are prepping their highly anticipated 13th album, are currently out on tour, with Eyehategod and Tigercub currently, and shortly thereafter the Sword and Nate Bergman. See their itinerary here.
