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Albums Of The Week: The Clamps | Megamouth

The Italian stallions don't reinvent the stoner-rock wheel — but they do put it on a shiny muscle car and take it for an enjoyable spin on their turbocharged third album.

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE:Megamouth is an album that reflects post-pandemic anger. Composed between 2021 and 2022 and recorded in mid-2023, Megamouth features 10 hard-charging tracks dripping with fat-fuzzy guitars, cheeky pumping basslines and furious drumming.

Megamouth consolidates The Clamps’ well-recognizable high-adrenaline energetic sound squeezing rock ’n’ roll, stoner and speed-rock into a solid track list that will make you jump in a car, turn the volume up and push the damn gas like a mothefucking drag racer from the ’70s. Then you stop at a gasoline station, hail to Lemmy, share a couple of pints with Hellacopters and tell Fu Manchu to pay the bill!!”

The Clamps are a trio who formed in Northern Italy in 2012. Made up of former members of local punk, metal and alternative rock bands, The Clamps hit the road a few months later for plenty of shows in Italy and Europe, where they shared the stage with bands such as The Sewergrooves, Nashville Pussy, Pontiac, Valient Thorr, Wild Eyes, Valley of The Sun, Black Tusk, and more. Their debut album Deadly Kick For A Fat Fucker was released in 2013, followed by Blend, Shake, Swallow in 2017.”