Back On The Lash
by Warrior Soul

Oct20. So, as time goes on, Warrior Soul sound more like the 80s sleaze/street band they got lumped with when they were not that band. Weird. 'American Idol' comes across as an opening rant. 'I Get Fucked Up' is quite obvious. It opens with a pretty cool ACDC-like riff. I like it, but gone are the massive riffs of past albums. 'Back on the Lash' has some pretty lame lyrics about, yep, drinking, but I still love the groove, rhythm of this song. These last two are the only songs I had 'thumbed' going into this and whilst a bit of fun, are not great songs.
But is is a better start than the last album. A run of 'Thrill Seeker', 'Goin' Broke', 'Gettin' High', 'Black Out' and 'I Got the Rock' are all about, yep, getting smashed. The middle two have a decent groove, but I am really missing Kory's intelligent takes on the degredation of society, now replaced with cliched getting wasted.
'Further Decay' has some observations about society, but is more pointed at a particular (unknown) person and is not a great song, though it does have a small The Who like moment in the middle. 'That's How We Roll' does not need much explaining, but it does have a rather annoying chant of 'hey, hey, hey'. Yeah, if you like some of L.A Guns' dirtier songs you will find something here. And many of the songs are okay, it's just the subject matter becomes an eyeroll and it just sounds like Kory has really lost his way to me. He finishes with, 'You can't save rock 'n' roll', and it really sounds like he has given into the belief. 2.5/5