During the early 1990s when America was in the throws of a deep love affair with grunge music, the New York based band Warrior Soul was fighting an uphill battle, trying to win audiences over with its characteristic brand of hard rock. After forming in 1987, the band was immediately signed to Geffen Records but by the time it released its first album, 1990's Drugs, God, and the New Republic, the rock music landscape in the US had shifted towards an alternative sound. The band never gave into cultural pressures to curb its music towards popular sounds, and after the public's infatuation with grunge fizzled out into the mid 1990s, people started to take notice of Warrior Soul and the group's forthright sound on albums such as 2000's Classics and the 2008 live recording, Live in England. Though the band has never experienced widespread attention and has had its fair share of ups and downs, as well as a break up and eventual reunion, Warrior Soul has never compromised its sound.
