BODY COUNT have unleashed the legit tune video for his or her new monitor “Psychopath”
Strap in for a wild experience…
BODY COUNT evokes visceral imagery and references to historical past’s maximum feared criminals within the tune video to their latest track, “Psychopath”.
Directed through Jay Scorsese, the video pulls inspiration from fictional and real-life horrors, with references spanning from Jason Voorhees to Ted Bundy.
Even though recording wrapped up ultimate 12 months, the discharge date for “Cruel” stays undisclosed. The band’s ongoing collaboration with manufacturer Will Putney, who snagged the 2021 Grammy for Best possible Steel Efficiency for his paintings on their track “Bum-Rush,” made the selection for this monitor’s visitor vocalist a no brainer: FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY‘s frontman Joe Badolato.
“Cruel“ serves because the successor to 2020’s “Carnivore” and is predicted to hit the cabinets later this 12 months by the use of Century Media.
Again in July of 2023, BODY COUNT frontman Ice-T tweeted the next replace: “The New @BodyCountBand album is being Combined as we discuss ‘MERCILESS‘”.
Going again even additional, to October of 2022, Ice-T made an look at the “Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz” and mentioned the approaching BODY COUNT report, announcing: “Will Putney‘s generating once more. We’ve had 3 consecutive nice albums running with Will; he understands. I name him ‘the Dr. Dre of steel,’ as a result of he has the power to provide other teams however lead them to sound like themselves, however simply higher.
We did ‘Carnivore’, and proper [when] our first date of traveling was once meant to start out, COVID hit,” he endured. “COVID hit, close down all of the stateside excursion; 35 Eu gala’s close down; and we didn’t in reality get to in reality carry out the album; we didn’t get to head out, and that roughly sucks.

“You are making albums to accomplish ’em; you don’t make ’em simply [to sit at home]. And we received a Grammy on that one. That was once nice; that was once an excellent accolade. It roughly took the edge out of losing an album to a useless scene; it took the edge out of it. However then the label’s, like, ‘Ok, we’ll do every other album.’ And I’m, like, ‘Wait a minute. We didn’t even in reality get this one out excellent.”
Additionally discussing his procedure for recording vocals for BODY COUNT, Ice-T stated: “Generally once I do songs, I’ll do the songs however I don’t entire ’em. Like, if there’s gonna be 3 verses, I’ll sing two after which I roughly reside with them, and possibly that manner I will be able to consider how I wanna finish the track and the way I wanna trade it up.
“I’m at some extent now… Once I first used to do albums, I’d do, like, 20 songs after which check out to pick out 12. Now I’m very tough to seek out the tune, so by the point I pick out 12, the ones are the 12 songs. I’m no longer doing an entire bunch of recording simply to seek out that… I do know what I’m doing. I’m like that photographer that is aware of learn how to simply wait till the suitable second to take the image: ‘Ok, that’s one… two.’ As opposed to the man [who takes a bunch of pictures one after the other]. I don’t want to do this.
“So the ‘Cruel’ album is sounding beautiful exhausting, even though,” Ice-T added. “We named the motherfucker ‘Cruel’.”
On the 63rd annual Grammy Awards held in March 2021 in Los Angeles, BODY COUNT won a prestigious honor all the way through the pre-telecast rite. They had been awarded a Grammy within the coveted “Best possible Steel Efficiency” class. The nomination was once for his or her tough monitor “Bum-Rush,” featured on their album “Carnivore.” The popularity additional solidified BODY COUNT‘s affect and contribution to the steel style.
BODY COUNT shaped in Los Angeles again in 1990, and featured the unique lineup of Ice-T, guitarist Ernie C, drummer Beatmaster V, bassist Mooseman, and guitarist D-Roc. The Ice-T fronted team received huge consideration for its distinctive fusion of steel and rap, addressing social and political problems with a uncooked and competitive sound.
BODY COUNT are these days at the “Cruel” excursion in Europe and the United Kingdom with German funk power SLOPE:
BODY COUNT feat. Ice-T excursion dates:
6/13 – Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic – Rock for Folks 2024
6/15 – Nickelsdorf, Austria – Nova Rock 2024
6/16 – Zagreb, Croatia – Salata Stadium
6/17 – Zurich, Switzerland – Komplex 457
6/18 – Lausanne, Switzerland – Les Docks
6/20 – Nummijärvi, Finland – Nummirock 2024
6/22 – Cophenhagen, Denmark – Copenhell Pageant
6/23 – Dessel, Belgium – Graspop Steel Assembly 2024
6/25 – Esch-Sur-Alzette, Luxembourg – Rockhal
6/26 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso
6/27 – Ysselsteyn, Netherlands – Jera On Air
6/28 – Clisson, France – Hellfest 2024
6/30 – London, UK – O2 Discussion board Kentish The city
7/1 – Manchester, UK – O2 Ritz Manchester
7/2 – Glasgow, UK – Galvanizers Backyard
9/28 – Louisville, KY – Louder Than Existence
10/12 – Sacramento, CA – Aftershock