Thursday, November 21, 2024

Body Count : "Merciless"







 At 66 years of age, Ice-T decided to record an 8th album with his metal band, which worked as a novelty when their first album came out back in 1992, which is the last time I listened to the band. I did see them when they performed with Ice-T during the first Lollapalooza tour. I also like his "O.G" album where he first debuted with them. Since then it sounds like they have evolved into a halfway decent thrash band. Not the most original band riff-wise, as there is almost a straight-up Slayer riff on the first song. The reason I stopped listening to them after the first album was nu-metal and hard-core bands were soon making similar music better, and there are only so many hours in the day to listen to music, so I tend to invest that time wisely. 

Corpsegrinder is on the second song to lend some legitimacy to things. Joe Bad from Fit For an Autopsy is on "Psychopath", which is another pretty decent thrash tune. "Fuck What You Heard" is lyrically strong as it compares politics to gangs, and says they are two wings on the same bird. "Live Forever" is the first song that feels like filler and Howard Jone's vocal is pretty weak. There is a decent groove to "Do or Die". They got David Gilmour to help them cover "Comfortably Numb" which finds Ice-T randomly rapping over the verse. Gilmour just rips guitar solos, which are better heard on his new solo album. He can't save this song.

"Lying Motherfucka" is pretty much warmed-over nu-metal. Max Cavalera helps them on "Drug Lords'. The verse is more of a punk song. "World War" is an improvement over the previous songs. I think when they turn "Mic Contract" into a metal song, it was a good move and perhaps the direction they should go more often. They could do it with Ice-T's first three albums for sure. I will give this album an 8, it's better than I thought it would be for sure. 





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