Warrior Soul/Wrathchild America Appreciation Thread

Never heard Wrathchild America, but I remember liking the few Warrior Soul songs I heard on WSOU (NJ-based metal radio station run off the campus of Seton Hall University, a Catholic college - sometime around the station's 15th anniversary, a faculty member tuned in and discovered that oh my golly, lots of these here metal songs have lyrics with what you might charitably call un-Christian sentiments, and forced them to change the format). The only one I can definitely recall right now is "Trippin' On Ecstasy," which was goofy, but had a good riff.

I loved Warrior Soul at the time. They reformed didn't they?

yeah, you know, wrathchild were alright. i had a friend from the D.C. area and he was hugely into them. i should go dig out their tape and reappraise.

didn't much get into warrior soul.

Kory Clarke, the bandleader, keeps threatening to reform Warrior Soul in interviews, but right now he's singing in Dirty Rig, a thoroughly boring stoner rock band. And I normally like stoner rock!

My fascination started with them when I found a Wrathchild America CD for $.25 and thought I would find out what it was, and then got into an argument with my friend over whether they or warrior soul were more obscure. However, I keep seeing Warrior Soul mentioned in interviews, articles, and reviews, so I guess I win that argument.

Neither of the bands were actually that great, but they were somewhat interesting for the time, and seem to have fallen between the cracks since. What's the best Warrior Soul record? I only have Drugs, God, and the New Republic.

Most would say either the 1st one "Last Decade Dead Century" or "Salutations From The Ghetto Nation". I certainly prefer them to "drugs, God and the new Republic" as I wan't so keen on the production of that album.
"Chill Pill" is a very underrated album. No potential hit singles off it at all. It was very much their "Joy Division" influenced album. Personally I loved it.
The album "Space Age Playboys" was more a kinda dumb punk album in the vein of Turbonegro and quite enjoyable as it was so different to the other stuff.

All their albums did well in the Kerrang end of year polls. They were very much a critics band. Even supporting Metallica didn't help them make a breakthrough.

I'm sure Warrior Soul played Scotland last year but fuck knows who was in the band.

Warrior Soul was definitely a critics band, especially over here in The Netherlands. I saw the band play once at the Aardschok festival in 1993 (Dream Theater and Paradise Lost were the headliners), and they looked very coked-up and played high velocity rock stuff as I recall. Headbangers Ball also played some of they're videos, I can remember a song Hero, which was some sort of rockballad, from one of their first albums. They also played the Dynamo Open Air Festival a few years later, where they reportedly played a rousing set but left the stage 20 minutes too early. Kory Clarke later tried with a glam band called Space Age Playboys but they sucked.

Wrathchild America later changed they're name to Souls At Zero if I'm correct and released one selftitled album somewhere in 93/94. No one remembers them anymore over here I guess.

I thought "Losers" was achingly beautiful the first time I heard it when I was 10. I never heard it again until a year or two ago. It really hasn't held up to my preteen expectations but it's not terrible by any means. Never heard an album.