{"id":5536,"date":"2019-05-29T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-29T05:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=5536"},"modified":"2019-05-20T17:36:39","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T17:36:39","slug":"warrior-soul-rocknroll-disease-live-wire-cargo-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=5536","title":{"rendered":"Warrior Soul \u2013 \u2018Rock’n’Roll Disease\u2019 (Live Wire\/Cargo Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cI fucking love Kory Clarke.\u201d<\/p>\n

There we are folks; I just felt I needed to get that off my chest and nail my flag to the pole with this review from the off.<\/p>\n

You see it\u2019s almost impossible for me to feel any other way about a man who with Warrior Soul has \u00a0released some of the most important politically charged metal our generation has ever had the honour of hearing plus along the way he\u2019s also given us one of the greatest glam punk albums I\u2019ve ever heard in the shape of \u2018The Space Age Playboys\u2019. This is an artist who is always reinventing himself and always looking for boundaries he can break down in the process. He\u2019s also as cantankerous as fuck, and I kinda like that in my rock stars.<\/p>\n

With this in mind then I\u2019m almost embarrassed to admit that after many hours spent in the company of \u2018Rock’n’Roll Disease\u2019 (the band\u2019s 10th<\/sup> studio album to date) I\u2019m still kinda left scratching my head a little.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve lapped up everything Kory has released since getting Warrior Soul back on the road and with their last album \u2018Back On The Lash\u2019 I was left in awe of the power and energy the band had managed to cram into that release\u2019s 9 tracks. Warrior Soul really had never sounded so vibrant or essential.<\/p>\n

With the PR blurb for \u2018Rock’n’Roll Disease\u2019 proudly proclaiming that Kory had used the same team behind \u2018Back On The Lash\u2019 to deliver this 8 tracker and with the man himself declaring it to have the loose vibe of its predecessor but with everything pushed to \u201cover the top\u201d, you\u2019ll forgive me if I admit to letting out a little squeal of excitement at the prospect of what might be.<\/p>\n

Then, why after all of this and after listening to this half hour of all new music from Warrior Soul am I still not feeling the same buzz as I did when I first heard \u2018Lash\u2019?<\/p>\n

Opener \u2018Up The Dose\u2019 is a magnificent way to start a record, it\u2019s an immediate right hook to the jaw just to get you interested, and indeed it\u2019s very much a continuation of the strutting cock \u2018n\u2019 roll that made \u2018Lash\u2019 such an instant hit with me. Here Kory screeches like a wild cat and everything in the Warrior world seems fine. Likewise, on tracks like \u2018Off My Face\u2019 (which is probably my favourite track here), \u2018War Ride Children\u2019 and \u2018After The Show\u2019 the band certainly rip along at a fair rate of knots. It\u2019s just that with repeated listens I get a little perplexed that the bottom end needed to actually force this fucker down your throat seems just a little lacking. Yes Kory turns in a mighty fine performance as does the band, but I can\u2019t help but wonder what the hell has happened to the drums? They pinned you to the wall on \u2018Lash\u2019 but here they appear somewhat muted, and given that Kory himself is a very fine drummer this comes as something of a surprise, and yes for me it\u2019s a frustration, albeit a small one.<\/p>\n

This is still very much a Warrior Soul record though and that alone makes it better than 99% of the beige shite that pollutes the metal\/classic world right now, it\u2019s just that right now I\u2019m simply not warming to it as instantly as I have with the likes of \u2018Destroy the War Machine\u2019, \u2019Stiff Middle Finger\u2019 and \u2018Back On The Lash\u2019, all of which I consider to be up there with the band\u2019s much revered first four studio albums.<\/p>\n

Perhaps I just need to stop being such a pernickety old sod and simply go down a few cold ones whilst listening to \u2018Rock’n’Roll Disease\u2019 at maximum volume like I imagine Kory would demand me to, because after all I love Warrior Soul and I love Kory Clarke and a world without either would certainly be a very boring place indeed.<\/p>\n

\u2018Rock’n’Roll Disease\u2019 is released via Live Wire\/Cargo Records on 7th<\/sup> June 2019.<\/p>\n

Author: Johnny Hayward<\/p>\n

Buy ‘Rock n Roll Disease’ Here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cI fucking love Kory Clarke.\u201d There we are folks; I just felt I needed to get that off my chest and nail my flag to the pole with this review from the off. You see it\u2019s almost impossible for me to feel any other way about a man who with Warrior Soul has \u00a0released some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5616,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[1990,1678],"class_list":["post-5536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-review","tag-kory-clarke","tag-warrior-soul","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5536"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5617,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536\/revisions\/5617"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}