Year : 2022
Style : Hard Rock
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 88 mb
Bio:
Warrior Soul is an American hard rock band formed by lead singer and producer Kory Clarke. Clarke started the band on a bet from a promoter at New York City's Pyramid Club, after a solo performance art show called "Kory Clarke/Warrior Soul". Clarke was determined he would have the best band in the city within six months. Nine months later he signed to Geffen Records, with a multi album deal.Kory Clarke originally started in the music scene as a drummer for a number of bands, including Detroit punks L-Seven (not to be confused with the all female Los Angeles band, L7) and Pennsylvania Southern rockers Raging Slab. After realizing his calling was as a singer and front man, Kory Clarke promoted himself to stage front and founded Warrior Soul.The band began to play in New York City in 1987, and soon came to the attention of Geffen, who signed the band. Geffen directed Clarke to shed his hired band and get new players. Clarke insisted on keeping Pete McClanahan as his bass player, and recruited guitarist John Ricco and former Killing Joke drummer Paul Ferguson.In 1990, Warrior Soul released their first album, Last Decade Dead Century. The 11-track studio album received critical acclaim, especially in the U.K., where listeners readily embraced the band's political invective and insurrectionist rantings as the next big thing.1991 saw Ferguson replaced on drums by Mark Evans,and the band's second album Drugs, God and the New Republic release, which took their anarchist leanings even further. A nationwide support tour with Queensrÿche (with whom they shared management from the Q Prime agency) followed.The following year saw the release of the band's third album, 1992's Salutations from the Ghetto Nation, and Clarke's relationship with Geffen sour. Clarke's interviews became increasingly bitter, often focusing on the band's record label, whom he accused of ignoring the group's potential.Eventually, Clarke resorted to an all-out war, telling all who would listen that the band's fourth release, 1993's Chill Pill had been botched on purpose in order to fulfill the band's contract. The ploy seemed to work, and by early 1994 Warrior Soul were dropped by Geffen.A number of lineup changes ensued. Longtime guitarist John Ricco was ousted, replaced by two guitarists: Alexander Arundel (aka X-Factor) and Chris Moffet (former Cycle Sluts from Hell lead guitarist). Not long after, Mark Evans and Chris Moffet departed. At that time former Nuclear Assault/Cities/Cycle Sluts from Hell drummer Scott Duboys joined the band. The line-up now consisted of Clarke, Arundel, McClanahan and Duboys. Clarke sought to reinvent Warrior Soul as self-appointed cyberpunks for their fifth album, 1995's The Space Age Playboys, released on the independent Futurist label. While touring in support of the album, Warrior Soul headlined the 1995 Kerrang! U.K. tour, as well as performing at the 1995 Dynamo Open Air festival, and also at the 1995 Donnington Monsters of Rock concert.After the performance of their last live show in September 1995, Arundel, Duboys, and longtime bassist McClanahan quit the band, leading in short order to Clarke's decision to retire the band later that year.In 1996, Odds & Ends was released as a collection of demos recorded on an eight-track with Arundel, and leftover material that was originally intended for release on Elektra Records.The "classic" lineup of Clarke, Ricco, McClanahan, and Evans would later reunite in the studio to re-record twelve of the bands' songs, released on Spitfire records as Classics in 2001. All Warrior Soul albums were remastered and re-released on CD and MP3 in 2006 and 2009, including with bonus material (mostly live songs originally released as b-sides). The first three albums were also re-released on vinyl in 2009.Clarke says many of their songs are politically based, such as "Blown Away", "Superpower Dreamland", "In Conclusion", and "Children of the Winter." Clarke describes the band's sound as "acid punk", particularly their The Space Age Playboys album.Drummer Mark Evans was murdered in London, UK in 2005.
Album:
Poetic and timely, ‘Out On Bail‘ speaks to us as survivors and fighters, celebrating in success and yet wary of things to come. It is a perfect gateway into the mind and soul of this unique songwriter and ground-breaking band.Produced by Kory Clarke. Additional Production by Dennis Post. Mixed and Mastered by Rune Buck. Additional Sound Support John JJ. Watt . Bass Tracks Recorded at Zuleika Studios by Erik Tricity Bass Tricity.After a frighteningly good ‘covers’ outing last time out of the traps it’s back to all original Rock and Roll for Kory Clarke and co. with ‘Out On Bail’ hitting the streets via Livewire / Cargo Records UK this March is yet another reason you need Warrior Soul in your life!If you dug the first single and opening track ‘We’re Alive’ which builds to a stomping riff rocker from the initial atmospheric tolling of a bell all the way to the unbreakable mantra of ‘We’re alive, we’re alive’ as Clarke spits out some wonderfully bleak pandemic-inspired lyrics. It’s a crazily good hard edged opening that has echoes of earlier works and a dab of the Cult in the relentless riffing. It sets you at ease that the band is picking up where they left off with 2019’s ‘Rock N Roll Disease’.‘One More For The Road’ highlights Clarke’s whisky-fueled growl and of course is all about the relentless touring we used to do in the good old days! It’s a little tinged with psychedelia, and rather moody with it, and whilst it almost fails to get to the point ‘Hip Hip Hooray’ gets back to full iconic groove I so love about this band. Railing against Corporate greed (and here Trump gets a nice few lines) never gets old!Title track ‘Out on Bail’ has a Stonsey, Faces-type groove and a Rose Tattoo intensity and is a definite highlight, as is the wonderful ‘Cancelled Culture’ that follows making the centre of this album as solid as anything Warrior Soul has done this side of the Millennium.Sadly my one gripe here is that we only get three more tracks – making a total of eight. Of course that means there’s no room for fat, and whilst ‘End of the World’, like ‘One More For the Road’ before it, have that Space Age Playboys sheen and feel a little unresolved, lyrically they hit the spot. ‘The final pairing ‘Yo Yo’ with its hard edge and vocal musings, and the spoken word poetry of ‘The New Paradigm’ are a heady mix to close.If you’ve kept up with Warrior Soul over the years then you’ll love this. It’s and album that ticks all the boxes and says all the right things and does it in a wonderfully gritty way – back alley rock an roll and still as relentless and single minded as ever.
Line-Up:
Kory Clarke – vocals, drums (track 2)
Dennis “El Guapo” Post – guitar
Christian Kimmett – bass
John Besser – drums
Tracklist:
01. We're Alive
02. One More For The Road
03. Hip Hip Hurray
04. Out On Bail
05. Cancelled Culture
06. End Of The World
07. YoYo
08. The New Paradigm
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