KORY CLARKE Says WARRIOR SOUL Will 'Probably' See Light Of Day Again

Sweden's Metalshrine.se webzine recently conducted an interview with former WARRIOR SOUL and current DIRTY RIG frontman Kory Clarke. A few excerpts from the chat follow:

Metalshrine.se: About DIRTY RIG. I read that the band got together in 2003, but you were not the original singer. How come you ended up joining these guys?

Kory: "They came down to one of my solos shows and handed me some CDs. I picked up and listened to them and a couple of songs were really good. The musicianship was really outstanding. These guys are the best musicians I've ever worked with. We wrote some songs, 'Suck It' and 'Drunk Again' and that's what happened."

Metalshrine.se: So how many of the songs on the album were written before you joined them?

Kory: "One! We wrote the rest together. I brought 'Cities, Scenes and Thieves' from my career and 'Just a Star' was written by a friend of mine in Detroit and the rest is a collaboration."

Metalshrine.se: There's a quite a lot of, at least I think, a WARRIOR SOUL sound and stuff you've done before in, DIRTY RIG's sound. I was listening to "Drunk Again" today and there's quite a few similarities with one of my favorite WARRIOR SOUL songs "Punk and Belligerent".

Kory: "Yeah, it's about drinking (laughs). There's definetely a theme there and having fun, really. I mean, that is a funny song. And I think that WARRIOR SOUL also had sort of that sense of humor. It seems to fit quite well with this band and that's probably why they wanted me to sing with them. They knew that was what they were gonna get. You get a lot of stuff when you put Kory Clarke in your band. Lot of crappy stuff."

Metalshrine.se: About WARRIOR SOUL, is that a band that will see the light of day again or...?

Kory: "Well, considering that I own the name, I would say...probably. But definitely the members will be different. It's too dificult to work with the other members of the band. One doesn't answer his phone and the other is a Lear jet pilot. I seem to be the one who's still rocking. There's been a lot of members of WARRIOR SOUL already and if I come out again, it'll be serious."

Metalshrine.se: Do you have any other projects or bands going on? Are you writing stuff?

Kory: "Millions of projects. Actually my main side project, is a band called THE STONED, which is a...I don't know what kind of music it is (laughs). Detroit music! I'm playing drums and producing it. It's really cool actually. I have the director of BEASTIE BOYS' 'Fight for Your Right...' video on rhythm guitar and I've got a guy from Detroit singing, Scottie G. Dimebagger (?),a guy I pulled out of Detroit and we've got this other guy, Sebastian from Chile, on bass. He's an ex-marine. It's fucking nuts! We´re doing a live four-camera shoot at CBGBs and it'll be the last show we do at CBGBs, on Friday night. So that's gonna exist and the album's almost done and it's gonna be really cool, man. I'm not sure who's gonna put it out. I'm not gonna always be in the band, but I'm gonna get this thing released and there's gonna be a lot of video action on it too. And it has nothing to do with DIRTY RIG, WARRIOR SOUL or anything! It's a totally different thing and my other project is...let's see...I've actually started a BAD COMPANY tribute band and I'm playing drums, for now. It's just like a side project with friends. And I've got another thing that's going to corporate events, but I don't want to discuss it right now."

Read the entire interview at Metalshrine.se.