The Warriors

THE WARRIOIRS
WITH RETALIATE, DOWNPRESSER, ELEPHANT SKIN, SELFISH WAYS

Hailing from Oxnard, California, this metal quintet aims to set the record straight on what hardcore is really about in their latest Victory Records installment. Lead vocalist of THE WARRIORS, Marshall Lichtenwaldt recounted, I remember hearing our old guitar player, Danny doing an interview and he said that one thing that people forgot about in hardcore today is their genuine sense of outrage. I knew that would be the title of the album before we even wrote it.” Listening to Genuine Sense Of Outrage (2007), you can hear a bottomless well of frustration and aggression delivered with heartfelt urgency through an arsenal of infectious thrash metal riffs and ten mile thick sludgy hardcore. I?m not about bringing back nostalgia but most people today treat hardcore like a casual scene and it?s not about how pretty you can make your hair, it?s about music for a reason from the heart and from the head,? Lichtenwaldt says. While their previous album, 2005?s Beyond The Noise, was more of raw hardcore with a rhythmic pulse and lock-step tempos, the new songs are massively rocking and possessed of dynamically layered chaos. Guitarist Javier Zarate explains ?Our new second guitarist Charlie (Alvarez) loves all those bands like Leeway and Crumbsuckers that were brutal but also rocked, he brought a lot of riffs to the table and jamming together it brought out a darker and heavier side of THE WARRIORS.? Genuine Sense Of Outrage was put together with the help of producer Cameron Webb, whom has previously worked with Social Distortion, Motorhead, and Silverstein. Lichtenwaldt comments Webb is definitely a bro, he wants to achieve your vision and that means using whatever means he can to help you do that. There was times when he would be yelling at me and calling me names until he got me fired up enough to deliver the most passionate and angry performance I could. Lichtenwaldt definitely needed to bring his A-game with guest vocalists involved on the album including Lemmy Kilmister (Motorhead), Lou Koller (Sick Of It All) and Andrew Neufeld (Comeback Kid). On the road for 300 days of the year the band has an impressive amount of dates set up around the world including tours with Evergreen Terrace, rapper DMX, Bury Your Dead and upcoming runs through Australia and Europe. The group, who formed in high school, has been doing national tours since the age of 19 have also shared the stage with such groups as Tiger Army, Kittie, Terror, Throwdown, Sick Of It All and Set Your Goals. Lichtenwaldt concludes by saying ?We?ve always embraced this culture for what it is, to make people think and to feel. We do this for the love of the music and for the way it makes us feel alive. Therefore we are psyched to play our songs for ourselves and we?re gonna give as much energy playing a small show as we would if we were playing an arena.