Clutch

Although they would soon fully step into the jam room, on their second record Maryland’s finest hadn’t yet fully strayed from their noise rock roots. Clutch have always been a bit too feral to fit into any one category. “Big News I and II” are probably the closest they got to stoner rock (and those songs beat the pants off of most entries in that genre), but by the time they hit the street preaching of “Escape from the Prison Planet” and the evil astronomy of “Spacegrass” it’s pretty obvious that where they were going they didn’t need roads.