Psychic Warfare

Clutch

2015

3.24

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15%

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28%

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Genres: Rock Styles: Stoner Rock, Hard Rock

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Album Summary

Psychic Warfare is the eleventh studio album by the band Clutch, It was released on October 2, 2015, through the band's own label Weathermaker Music. Psychic Warfare debuted at No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums Chart and No. 11 on Billboard 200-- selling 26,000 copies in the first week. This is the best chart-ranking achieved on both charts by the band as well as their best weekly sales. Clutch is an American rock band from Germantown, Maryland. Since its formation in 1991, the band lineup has included Tim Sult (lead guitar), Dan Maines (bass), Jean-Paul Gaster (drums), and Neil Fallon (vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards). Since 2008, the band has been signed to their own record label, Weathermaker Music. Clutch is one of the pioneers of stoner rock.

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Jan 31 2026 Author

Psychic Warfare is a fun stone/hard rock album by Clutch. The music is muscle rock with a lot of drive. The lyrics are not that serious. Great car music.

Jan 23 2026 Author

Solid hard rock LP that never once let off the gas. Doesn’t really reinvent the wheel any but that’s not what I was looking for out of this LP, just some good riffage and energy.

Jan 23 2026 Author

Whoa - this is a surprise. This sounded like it was made well before 2015. Good old fashioned hard southern rock here that is a ton of fun to listen to! The band introductions by zodiac sign in "X-Ray Visions" reminded me of "Float On" by The Floaters for some mad reason. The propulsive rock of "Sucker for the Witch" proved excitingly relatable for both our shared Catholic upbringing and obsession with witches. PSYCHIC WARFARE is some terrific rock that I'm glad to discover is alive and well!

Jan 26 2026 Author

Some hard rock, I often like to listen to. This gave me some vibes like Volbeat and FFDP. Cool album

Feb 04 2026 Author

Stoner rock, hard rock, blues rock. Me ha gustado. Vinilo, va.

Jan 31 2026 Author

This was fun. I don't think they are doing anything really original or required listening, but it's fun. My personal rating: 3/5 My rating relative to the list: 4/5 Should this have been included on the original list? No.

Feb 04 2026 Author

Gen Xrs of pretty much my exact vintage. I liked the goofy sci fi/horror sensibility - Wiki cites Philip K Dick, but I sense equal parts Stephen King. Some lyrical artfulness is sacrificed in service of the storytelling I think. But I give it a pass. It was fun and funny, and gets an extra point for being far from the same old thing despite hewing to a pretty well worn genre of hard rcok.

Feb 06 2026 Author

Right up my street. Straight into my frequent rotation and now planning a deep dive into Clutch’s discography.

Feb 09 2026 Author

For me Clutch is a band who has flown under the radar for me. Recently I've heard a few of their bigger hits, but hadn't listened to a whole album yet. This was a fantastic record, I definitely will listen to it again!

Feb 12 2026 Author

I had heard if Clutch and listened to a tracks before... But holy crap this kicked butt. Cross between southern rock and heavy metal, which shouldn't work. But it DOES. Will definitely check out more of these guys. Top tracks: "X-Ray Visions", "Firebirds!", "Sucker for the Witch", "Noble Savage", "Behold the Colossus", "Decapitation Blues"

Jan 24 2026 Author

Boring

Jan 24 2026 Author

At its best this album reminds me a bit of Electric Six or Cage the Elephant. The rest is sort of a dull edgy take at hard rock or like Metalcore for babies

Jan 24 2026 Author

Yeah I like Motörhead too

Jan 26 2026 Author

It seems like modern rock music struggles to get back to that arena rocking sound that ruled the 70s and 80s. This album has all the makings of a good rock album but to me it just doesn’t land like some of the classics. It’s not a bad album but it feels like it’s trying harder to be a cool rock album rather than the music actually being cool. It’s not bad but it just doesn’t have the replay flair that older rock has. 6.1/10

Jan 31 2026 Author

It's quite good, but not really my style anymore

Feb 08 2026 Author

Ford F150 music

Feb 15 2026 Author

I have a friend who is a huge fan of these guys. I’ve tried to get into them. I do enjoy their records when I put them on. I just don’t find myself reaching for them.

Feb 16 2026 Author

Rating: 6/10 Best songs: X-ray visions, Our lady of electric light

Feb 18 2026 Author

It's alright, but not very memorable.

Feb 21 2026 Author

If possible, I would give it 3,5.

Mar 05 2026 Author

Psychic Warfare doesn't fuck around, just gets to the point of straight-line hard rock, relatively few frills though some decent efforts to mix it up and pronounce the Southern element to it. Our Lady of Electric Light is a cool bluesy ballad in that vein but otherwise it's pretty loud and in your face, not outstanding but an easy 3 for radio-like listenability.

Jan 25 2026 Author

Not my kind of music but I didn’t find it too much of a chore.

Feb 12 2026 Author

I'm a little befuddled by this album. It sounds... fine? But I don't understand what makes this album, and Clutch in general "good," but similar modern musical artists going after this sound seem to get constant ridicule. Not that they don't deserve it, but I genuinely don't hear how this is any different. Fun in Guitar Hero? Maybe, but brain-numblingly predictable as an album.

Feb 27 2026 Author

45 years prior to this recording there was a band from Birmingham (that's not in Alabama) that recorded an album that many define as the birth of Heavy Metal. 10 years later there was a band from Barnsley (that's not in Kentucky) that along with many many others kept the fire burning. This recording in no way seeks to build on anything that came before which leads me to wonder whether this band's fans have ever heard of Black Sabbath and Saxon? Only joking of course- I love this genre but wonder if everything that can be said has been said?