WARRIOR SOUL, the band fronted by legendary singer Kory Clarke, is currently working on a new studio album which is tentatively due before the end of the year. A tour will follow the album’s release.
Video footage of WARRIOR SOUL performing the song “Let’s Get Wasted” at Ace of Clubs in New York City on May 31, 2008 can be viewed below. The show marked WARRIOR SOUL’s first American concert in twelve years.
Clarke’s side project, THE STONED, opened the concert.
WARRIOR SOUL released a live album on April 14, 2008 through Livewire/Cargo Records. Entitled “Live In England”, the CD was recorded in London during the band’s October 2007 tour.
“Live In England” features many of the classic songs from the “Last Decade Dead Century”, “Drugs, God And The New Republic”, “Salutations From The Ghetto Nation”, “Space Age Playboys” and “Chill Pill” albums as well as a brand new song entitled “Bad News (Rock n’ Roll Boyfriend)”.
The band’s current lineup is as follows:
Kory Clarke - Vocals
Johnny H - Guitar
Rille Lundell - Guitar
Janne Jarvis - Bass
Rob “Stevo” Stephenson - Drums
Φετος τελικα το Warrior Soul. Νταξ, αναμενουμε σε καρβουνα.
Glenn Danzig recently answered a few questions for his official web site. A few excerpts from the chat follow.
Q: Tell me what you have planned for this upcoming 20th anniversary tour?
Glenn: It will be my first full U.S. tour in three years. There are even two Canadian shows and possibly some dates in Mexico and South America.
Q: You mentioned before we started the songs in the live set would be special?
Glenn: For this 20th anniversary tour, the set will start off with “Skin Carver” and then go in sequence from DANZIG “I” to “II” to “III” and on and on up to the present.
Q: Wow, so for the DANZIG fan this is probably the ultimate set list?
Glenn: I hope the fans will be happy with the song choices I’ve put in. Obviously each person has their own favorites they’d like to see performed, but I’ve tried to make sure there is something to appease every DANZIG fan from each record.
Q: Can you tell me what songs you’ll be playing?
Glenn: I think i’ve told you enough as I’d rather it be a surprise. I can tell you that there will be an acoustic number in the set.
Q: Any chance of a new DANZIG CD this year?
Glenn: No. But I have been in the studio here and there working on new songs but don’t know when they will come out. I was thinking of putting one up on the DANZIG site so the fans could check it out. Even thought about doing one on this tour.
Q: Really, any song in particular that you are talking about?
Glenn: The first track I started working on called “Black Candy”. I would love to do it on this run, even if it’s only at a few shows.
Q: OK, so the Audiences on this tour may also get to hear a new song? That would be awesome.
Glenn: I’m glad you think so and I would hope that the fans would also like to hear a new song before it gets released. I used to do it all the time on the early tours. “777” and many others were done in the DANZIG set well before they were released.
Q: Did you ever think DANZIG would still be playing and recording 20 years after that first release?
Glenn: Well, that was the idea, originally. One of the reasons Rick [Rubin] and I decided it should be called DANZIG was so when players in the band left or were replaced , the name would’nt have to change. My band, my songs, my vision. So, yeah, as long as I want to keep doing it, it will be DANZIG.
Q: Would you ever do another project other than DANZIG?
Glenn: You mean be in someone else’s band?
Q: Yes, or start another band with some of your contemporaries?
Glenn: I’ve never thought about it, really. I’m pretty busy and don’t even have the time to do all the things I’d like to do, let alone start or be in another band.
Hank III and I did a couple tracks together when we were rehearsing for the 666 show. I also did my first duet of my career with Melissa Auf Der Mar on a track for her new CD.
Q: Will you ever do that blues record with Jerry Cantrell [ALICE IN CHAINS]?
Glenn: I actually saw Jerry at the MINISTRY show here in L.A. and while we were talking he said, “We should do that blues thing,” to which I ageed. It’s really just finding the time to sit down and do it. I think it will eventually happen someday.
Πωωω αντε ρε ΚΑΝΤΕ ΚΑΤΙ ΚΑΙ ΓΙΑ ΕΥΡΩΠΗ:!:
Reunited progressive metallers CYNIC — whose 1993 album “Focus” is regarded as a landmark release in the field of technical/progressive metal — will release their new album, “Traced In Air” on October 28 via Season of Mist Records (one day earlier internationally). Returning from the “Focus” era for the new eight-song, 35-minute effort are are founding members Paul Masvidal (guitars/clean vocals) and Sean Reinert (drums) along with Sean Malone (bass), and joining the band in the studio is newcomer Tymon Kruidenier (guitars/growls). The band recorded the effort at a California studio with producer Warren Riker (DOWN, SANTANA).
Commented Masvidal: “We’re thrilled to share the new CYNIC alien seedling with the world. I trust that this magical plant will be watered well and tended to. The roots are intact, now the branches get to soar high into the sky and provide shade for those of us stressed about current weather conditions. We’ve all been on this journey together. It’s time we tell a new story. One of my favorite thinkers Ralph Waldo Emerson said: ‘We live amid surfaces, and the true art is to skate well on them’. Well it’s time, we let the dance begin!”
Rockalaram conducted an interview with Masvidal and Reinert at this year’s Wacken Open Air festival, which was held July 31 - August 2, 2008 in Wacken, Germany. Watch the six-minute chat below.
CYNIC will be direct support slot on the OPETH European trek in November/December. The band has also been announced as the headliner for this year’s ProgPower Europe festival, and will be playing a special extended set at the show. A U.S. tour will follow in early 2009.
)Mark will be with us again to sit behind the kit for these shows. He owns the material and deserves to spot. However, we’re also talking to Paul about playing a song or two just for fun and because he was supposed to do this whole reunion run with us in the first place. It seems proper to have Paul jam with us; it’s been 17 years since he was even in FORBIDDEN. Obviously, Paul is in TESTAMENT and they are kicking ass! To me, TESTAMENT are representing the Bay Area as well as it’s ever been represented. We’re all stoked for the success of their new record. It paves a better road for the rest of us when somebody makes a record that good. So we’ll see what happens there.