Warrior Soul
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| Background information | |
| Origin | New York, United States |
| Genres | Hard Rock |
| Years active | 1987 – present (2012) |
| Labels | Geffen Records |
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 boasted he would have the best rock band in the city within six months. Nine months later he signed to Geffen Records for a million dollars[citation needed]. Geffen directed Clarke to shed his hired band and get new players. Clarke insisted on keeping Pete McClanahan as his bass player, and recruited guitarists John Ricco and Gene "XFactor" Poole, drummer Mark Evans, and Peter Jay.
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[edit] History
The band began playing in New York City in 1987. Clarke says many of their songs are politically based, such as "Blown Away", "Superpower Dreamland", "In Conclusion", and "Children of the Winter."[1] Clarke describes the band's sound as "acid punk", particularly their Space Age Playboys album.
Despite recognition by peers, including Lars Ulrich from Metallica, who had been quoted as saying Space Age Playboys was his favorite album, Warrior Soul disbanded in 1995.
In 1996, Odds & Ends was released as a collection of demos recorded on an eight-track with XFactor, and leftover material that was originally intended for release on Elektra Records. Clarke took two years off after the band's breakup and release of Space Age Playboys, and moved back to New York, where he wrote and released a spoken word solo album, Opium Hotel on Cargo Records in 2004. Soon after, Clarke was asked to be the lead singer of Dirty Rig. He coproduced their 2006 album Rock Did It.
All the Warrior Soul albums were re-released in 2006. Their latest is called Destroy The War Machine, released March 2010.
Drummer Mark Evans was murdered in London, UK in 2005.[2][3]
Clarke was asked to be the frontman for the Chicago doom metal band Trouble, and began touring in the summer of 2008. Kerrang! magazine reviewed the show as KKKKK (5 Ks)[citation needed].
December 2008 saw the band return to large indoor stages, with shows at the Shepherds Bush Empire, London, and the O2 Academy Glasgow.
In 2009, the band's re-issued their work on vinyl, and embarked on a European tour to support the release of Destroy the War Machine. Warrior Soul toured the UK with thrash metal band The More I See.
[edit] Discography
- (1990) Last Decade Dead Century
- (1991) Drugs, God and the New Republic
- (1992) Salutations from the Ghetto Nation
- (1993) Chill Pill
- (1994 UK, 1995 US) Space Age Playboys
- (1996) Odds & Ends (also released under the title Fucker in Europe.)
- (2000) Classics
- (2006) Promo Sampler Compilation
- (2008) Live in England
- (2009) Destroy the War Machine (aka Chinese Democracy)
