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American rock band

Warrior Soul is an American 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 a multi album deal with Geffen Records.

Kory Clarke originally started in the music scene as a drummer for several bands, including Detroit punks L Seven (not to be confused with the all female Los Angeles band L7), and a Kim Fowley project called "The Trial". 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. 1991 saw Ferguson replaced on drums by Mark Evans, and the band's second album Drugs, God and the New Republic released, which took their anarchist leanings even further. Clarke describes the band's sound as "acid punk", particularly their The Space Age Playboys album. Drummer Mark Evans was murdered in London, England, in 2005.

In 2007 Clarke revived the name, and has been recording and touring with an ever changing cast of musicians under the "Warrior Soul" name ever since. Initially setting out on a tour of the UK, a live album soon followed. 2008 saw the band released a new studio album, initially titled Chinese Democracy (as a dig at the long delayed Guns N' Roses release), but quickly renamed Destroy the War Machine. In 2012, another new lineup released the studio album Stiff Middle Finger co produced by Sue Gere and Kory Clarke, with Lundell still on guitar but joined by "Johnny H" and Xevi "Strings" Abellán, Danny Engstrom and Sue Gere on bass and drums by Freddie Cocker Kvarnebrink. Former band member John Ricco makes a guest appearance on guitar, as does The Mission guitarist Mark Gemini Thwaite. The band embarked on a month long European tour in November 2012, followed by a brief tour through the Eastern United States in December. Original bass player Pete McClanahan joined the live lineup for a few months in 2013. Christian Kimmett joined the band on bass in 2013 after McClanahan's departure, and Stevie Pearce joined on guitar a year later. This lineup undertook extensive touring of Europe and the US over the next three years and released a live album, Tough As Fuck in 2016. 2017 saw the release of a new studio album Back On The Lash with yet another new lineup, including the rhythm section from Urge Overkill, Adam and Nate Arling, joined by guitarist John 'Full Throttle' Polachek. In 2014 Clarke brought out a solo album recorded in Porto, Portugal Payback's A Bitch. Co Producer Andre Indiana and Monica Ferraz on backing vocals make this album very unusual and diverse demonstrating the different sides to Clarke's musical abilities. Rolling Stone Germany gave the album full score.

Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusic described the band as "an outspoken hard rock outfit", whose "incendiary mix of anarchic art rock and alternative heavy metal earned them a multi album deal with Geffen Records".