Body Count (band)

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Body Count in Prague 2006
General information
origin	Los Angeles , California , United States
Genre (s)	Crossover , heavy metal , thrash metal , rap metal , hardcore punk
founding	1990, 2009
resolution	2006
Founding members
singing	Ice-T
guitar	Ernie C
guitar	D-Roc † (until 2004)
bass	Mooseman † (until 1994)
Drums	Beatmaster V † (until 1996)
Current occupation
singing	Ice-T
guitar	Ernie C
guitar	Juan of the Dead (Juan Garcia) (since 2013)
bass	Vincent Price (since 2004)
Drums	Will "Ill Will" Dorsey, Jr. (since 2008)
Sampling, background vocals	Sean E Sean (1990-2001, since 2008)
hype man, background vocals	Little Ice (since 2016)
former members
bass	Mooseman † (until 1994; † 2001)
Drums	Jonathon James (1996)
guitar	D-Roc † (until 2004)
Drums	Beatmaster V † (until 1996)
Drums	OT (2004-2008)
guitar	Bendrix (2004-2013)
bass	Griz (1996-2004)
hype man, background vocals	Sean E. Mac (1990-2001)

Body Count is an American band founded in 1990 by the rapper Ice-T , which achieved fame especially for its innovation at the time, combining elements of hip-hop with elements of heavy metal and hardcore punk . The lyrics of the first album, especially the lyrics to Cop Killer , caused controversy in their home country.

history

In 1992, the song Body Count appeared on Ice-T's album Original Gangster , with which the band also achieved great recognition in hip-hop circles. Together with the musicians Ernie C (Ernie Cunnigan, guitar ), D-Roc (Dennis Miles, guitar), Mooseman (Lloyd Roberts III, electric bass ) and Beatmaster V (Victor Ray Wilson, drums ), Ice-T released the debut album in 1992 Body Count , which was particularly noticeable because of the then modern mix of hip-hop and hard rock as well as the public criticism of the song Cop Killer . For a long time, the lyrics brought negative headlines and accusations of condoning violence against police officers to the band. In detail, the text refers to the black US citizen Rodney King , who was abused by white police officers in the same year. This song was the trigger for the termination of the record deal between Body Count and the Warner Music Group a few months later.

The album Born Dead , released in 1994 on the Priority Records label , brought average commercial success, but could not set new accents in terms of content. In addition, the lyrics were missing extreme songs that made the first album so well known. Bassist Mooseman also left the band shortly after Born Dead was released.

Despite this, the album Violent Demise: The Last Days was released in 1997 - delayed by the death of the drummer Beatmaster V - but, like its predecessor, it did not bring any innovations and turned out to be a commercial failure. Ex-bassist Mooseman was shot dead on the street in 2000. Guitarist D-Roc succumbed to cancer in August 2004.

In 2005 Ice-T reformed the band. Cast: Singer / frontman Ice-T , lead guitarist Ernie C, OT (drums), Bendrix ( rhythm guitar ) and Vincent Price (bass). In 2006 the album Murder 4 Hire was released , one stage of the tour also took the band to Germany in August.

In 2011, Body Count participated in the soundtrack of the video game Gears of War 3 , after Ice-T had already presented the game at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2011 in Los Angeles together with the developers of Epic Games . An excerpt from the song The Gears of War can be heard for the first time in the gameplay trailer Horde 2.0: Five against all .

In 2014, Manslaughter was the band's first album since Murder 4 Hire, which was released in 2006 . The album Manslaughter was positively received by reviewers.

The sixth studio album Bloodlust was released at the end of March 2017 . About the song “ No Lives Matter ”, Ice-T said that the clear message of the Black Lives Matter movement was put into perspective by “All Lives Matter” messages. In the matter of fact it is correct to name other marginalized groups as well, but the point here was that blacks are dying in the USA. The song was released as a single on February 17, 2017. Guests Randy Blythe , Dave Mustaine and Max Cavalera (on "All Love Is Lost") participated in the recording .

At the beginning of March 2020 the seventh studio album Carnivore was released , on which some guests are represented ( Amy Lee , Jamey Jasta and Riley Gale from Power Trip ).

Members

• Body Count, current line-up live at With Full Force 2018
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  Singer Ice-T

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  Guitarist Ernie C

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  Guitarist Juan of the Dead

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  Bass player Vincent Price

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  Drummer Ill Will

Discography

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Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
1992	Body Count Sire Records	DE25th gold (50 weeks)DE	-	-	-	US20th gold (26 weeks)US	First published: March 30, 1992 Sales: + 750,000
1994	Born Dead Virgin Records	DE5 (21 weeks) DE	AT5 (13 weeks) AT	CH10 (10 weeks) CH	UK15 (4 weeks) UK	US74 (3 weeks) US	First published: September 6, 1994
1997	Violent Demise: The Last Days Virgin Records	DE45 (5 weeks) DE	-	-	-	-	First published: March 11, 1997
2006	Murder 4 Hire Escapi Music	-	-	-	-	-	First published: August 1, 2006
2014	Manslaughter Sumerian Records	DE92 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	US102 (1 week) US	First published: June 10, 2014
2017	Bloodlust Century Media	DE13 (6 weeks) DE	AT24 (1 week) AT	CH18 (2 weeks) CH	-	US157 (1 week) US	First published: March 31, 2017
2020	Carnivore Century Media	DE5 (3 weeks) DE	AT8 (2 weeks) AT	CH10 (3 weeks) CH	-	US28 (2 weeks) US	First published: March 6, 2020

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1. ↑ Twitter
2. ↑ Gears of War 3: New Horde 2.0 Gameplay Video
3. ↑ Review at AllMusic.com
4. ↑ Review at AllAroundTheRock.co.uk
5. ↑ Review at Altpress.com
6. ↑ Body Count: Details on the new album "Bloodlust" . In: Rolling Stone . February 7, 2017 ( rollingstone.de [accessed December 25, 2017]).
7. ↑ www.faz.net

Web links

Commons : Body Count (band)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Body Count at Allmusic (English)
• Body Count at MusicBrainz (English)
• Official website of the band
• Body Count at Discogs (English)