Description
Label Review.
2020 album. Ltd Box Set with 3 bonus tracks, the instrumental version of the album, a Body Count beanie, a metallic pin and a poster. Also available on CD and Vinyl.
Our Overview.
The originators of Rap Metal, Body Count are back with their latest album ‘Carnivore’ lead by the legendary rapper Ice-T. This is the 30th anniversary since the band’s formation and they continue to issue uncompromising and yet critically acclaimed albums in pairing Ice-T’s angry and socio-critical lyrics with thick guitar riffs and nods to metal and hardcore greats like Slayer, Metallica, Pantera, Suicidal Tendencies and Rage Against The Machine.
Bangers like “Thee Critical Beatdown”, “The Hate Is Real” and the title track will please old school Body Count fans, while “Colors” is a killer metal version of Ice-T’s 1988 hit single of the same name. With Motörhead’s classic “Ace Of Spades” Body Count are again paying tribute to one of their major musical influences. “When I’m Gone” shows a new side of Body Count and features guest vocals by Amy Lee (Evanescence). Other guest musicians include Dave Lombardo (ex-Slayer), Jamey Jasta (Hatebreed) and Riley Gale (Power Trip).
This isn’t your parents’ Ice-T, the mild-mannered star of television’s Law And Order: Special Victims Unit, who takes his charm to affable new heights while selling lemonade alongside precocious kids in a current Geico commercial. No, this is Body Count, the gangster-metal collective that made music fearsome to mainstream America, their renegade track “Cop Killer” sending politicians, parents and law enforcement officials into a proverbial tailspin when it was released unto the world a quarter-century ago. That’s not to say Ice-T and Body Count have been silent over the past 25 years, but as Ice is quick to point out, you can’t start a movement if people aren’t willing to move. “Music happens in climates,” the Body Count frontman says. “Groups like Rage Against The Machine and Korn were born when the world was in turmoil, then music went into this delusional period where hip-hop became about nothing more than poppin’ bottles. Now we have impending doom again, racism is at an all-time high and it’s our season again. This is the optimal time for a Body Count record.”
Tracklisting: Carnivore / Point the Finger / Bum-Rush / Ace of Spades / Another Level / Colors (2020) / No Remorse / When I’m Gone / Thee Critical Beatdown / The Hate Is Real / 6 In Tha Morning (2020) (Unreleased Demo) / No Lives Matter (Live in Australia 2017) / Black Hoodie (Live in Australia 2017) / Plus the whole album in Instrumental form.