BODY COUNT, the metal band fronted by hip-hop legend, actor and director Ice-T, will enter the studio in April to begin recording its new album, ‘Carnivore’. A late 2019 release is expected.
Ice-T tweeted about the upcoming disc: “I don’t even need to say it’s gonna be Brutal… Stay tuned for ‘CARNIVORE‘”
Last June, Ice-T told Iain Chambers that BODY COUNT wanted to up the ante with its next album after setting a high standard with its last two studio releases.
“When we did [2014’s] ‘Manslaughter’, it was 20 years [since the previous record], and I just wanted to see if we had a fanbase, and we did,” he said. “We outdid ‘Manslaughter’ with ‘Bloodlust’, and the posse grew. So now we’ve gotta outdo ‘Bloodlust’. That’s our only goal — not to make the greatest rock album in history; it’s just to outdo ‘Bloodlust’.”
According to Ice-T, he decided to call BODY COUNT‘s new album ‘Carnivore’ because “people are getting so soft. It’s okay for me to say, ‘Oh, I’m a vegan,’ or, ‘I’m a vegetarian,'” he explained. “I say I’m carnivorous — I only eat meat. People go, ‘What the fuck?’ I think the person that’s gonna come get you won’t be a vegetarian; it will be [someone] carnivorous.”
‘Bloodlust’ was released in March 2017. The disc included contributions from MEGADETH‘s Dave Mustaine, SOULFLY and CAVALERA CONSPIRACY’s Max Cavalera and LAMB OF GOD’s Randy Blythe.