61. Clutch - "Sunrise on Slaughter Beach"

This is getting silly now. Clutch are yet another entry with an awful lot of miles on the clock. They are archetypal Blues drenched hard rock with an additional heavy bottom. Imagine if you will that Status Quo and Black Sabbath formed a McBusted type outfit and you are properly most of the way there. This is album number 13 and they are within quite an incredible purple patch where their recorded output actually seems to be getting better. Many groups would see four decades of toil as the perfect point to start resting on their laurels and go about creating any old crap. But not Clutch. They are buckled down and conjured up a smorgasbord of southern licks and metal bravado. They seem to have an unquenchable fire in their collective bellies and that burning desire to be creative is what makes this album so enticing.