{"id":8395,"date":"2024-07-19T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T21:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8395"},"modified":"2024-07-19T16:01:29","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T21:01:29","slug":"body-count-releases-new-song-fuck-what-you-heard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8395","title":{"rendered":"BODY COUNT Releases New Song &#8216;Fuck What You Heard&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"368\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/body-count-20220219164111.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8396\" style=\"width:533px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/body-count-20220219164111.jpg 700w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/body-count-20220219164111-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><strong>BODY COUNT<\/strong>, the metal band fronted by hip-hop legend, actor and director&nbsp;<strong>Ice-T<\/strong>, has released a new song called&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Fuck What You Heard&#8221;<\/strong>. The track is taken from&nbsp;<strong>BODY COUNT<\/strong>&#8216;s upcoming album,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Merciless&#8221;<\/strong>, which is tentatively due this summer via&nbsp;<strong>Century Media Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BODY COUNT<\/strong>\u00a0recently released the official music video for\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Psychopath&#8221;<\/strong>, its first new single since 2020&#8217;s\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Bum-Rush&#8221;<\/strong>, which won a\u00a0<strong>Grammy Award<\/strong>\u00a0for &#8220;Best Metal Performance&#8221;. The new track, which features\u00a0<strong>FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY<\/strong>\u00a0vocalist\u00a0<strong>Joe Badolato<\/strong>, shows\u00a0<strong>Ice-T<\/strong>\u00a0and crew on maximum killing overdrive and primed for the next chapter of the legendary Los Angeles-based band&#8217;s 35-plus-year career. Longtime collaborator\u00a0<strong>Will Putney<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>KNOCKED LOOSE<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>THE GHOST INSIDE<\/strong>) produced the song, which was released via\u00a0<strong>Century Media Records<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"BODY COUNT \u2013 F*** What You Heard (VISUALIZER VIDEO)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QjYDy5ON-do?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Directed by&nbsp;<strong>Jay Scorsese<\/strong>, the&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Psychopath&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;video pulls inspiration from fictional and real-life horrors, with references spanning from&nbsp;<strong>Jason Voorhees<\/strong>&nbsp;to&nbsp;<strong>Ted Bundy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Merciless&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;is the follow-up to&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Carnivore&#8221;<\/strong>, which was released to critical acclaim in March 2020, just a week before COVID shut the entire world down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BODY COUNT<\/strong>&#8216;s European&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Merciless&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;tour kicked off on June 5 at&nbsp;<strong>Mystic<\/strong>&nbsp;festival in Poland and will bring the band to some of the world&#8217;s biggest festivals and venues, across more than a dozen countries. After returning to the States, they will perform at&nbsp;<strong>Louder Than Life<\/strong>&nbsp;festival in Louisville, Kentucky and&nbsp;<strong>Aftershock<\/strong>&nbsp;festival in Sacramento, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For&nbsp;<strong>BODY COUNT<\/strong>, it&#8217;s been a history of being both respected and feared \u2014 a barbed-wire thread that stretches back to the band&#8217;s origins as a project between&nbsp;<strong>Ice-T<\/strong>&nbsp;and Crenshaw High friend&nbsp;<strong>Ernie C.<\/strong>&nbsp;Their first shot fired, the song&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Body Count&#8221;<\/strong>, was a mission statement on&nbsp;<strong>Ice-T<\/strong>&#8216;s 1991&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;O.G. &#8211; Original Gangster&#8221;<\/strong>. That&#8217;s the blueprint they&#8217;ve been running on for more than 35 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They touched a nerve with their first, self-titled 1991 album and its divisive track&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Cop Killer&#8221;<\/strong>, which inspired hatred, fear, and paranoia, but also inspired generations of bands to follow. What they took from growing up with&nbsp;<strong>BLACK SABBATH<\/strong>&nbsp;and being inspired by fellow L.A. legends like&nbsp;<strong>SLAYER<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>SUICIDAL TENDENCIES<\/strong>&nbsp;has only upped the ante for generations of homies and hardcore fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BODY COUNT<\/strong>&#8216;s current line-up includes surviving O.G.s&nbsp;<strong>Ice-T<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Ernie C.<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Sean E. Sean<\/strong>&nbsp;joined by bassist&nbsp;<strong>Vincent Price<\/strong>, drummer&nbsp;<strong>Will &#8220;Ill Will&#8221; Dorsey<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Juan &#8220;Juan Of The Dead&#8221; Garcia<\/strong>&nbsp;and backing vocalist&nbsp;<strong>Little Ice<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&#8220;Carnivore&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;continued the path of its uncompromising and critically acclaimed predecessors,&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Bloodlust&#8221;<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>&#8220;Manslaugther&#8221;<\/strong>, in pairing&nbsp;<strong>Ice-T<\/strong>&#8216;s impassioned and socio-critical lyrics with thick guitar riffs and nods to metal and hardcore greats like&nbsp;<strong>SLAYER<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>METALLICA<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>PANTERA<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>SUICIDAL TENDENCIES<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE<\/strong>. Guest musicians on the LP included&nbsp;<strong>Amy Lee<\/strong>&nbsp;(<strong>EVANESCENCE<\/strong>),<strong>Dave Lombardo<\/strong>&nbsp;(ex-<strong>SLAYER<\/strong>),<strong>Jamey Jasta<\/strong>&nbsp;(<strong>HATEBREED<\/strong>) and&nbsp;<strong>Riley Gale<\/strong>&nbsp;(<strong>POWER TRIP<\/strong>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BODY COUNT<\/strong>\u00a0was honored with a\u00a0<strong>Grammy<\/strong>\u00a0in the &#8220;Best Metal Performance&#8221; category in the pre-telecast ceremony at the 63rd annual\u00a0<strong>Grammy Awards<\/strong>, which was held in March 2021 in Los Angeles.\u00a0<strong>BODY COUNT<\/strong>\u00a0was nominated for\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Bum-Rush&#8221;<\/strong>, a track from\u00a0<strong>&#8220;Carnivore&#8221;<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"Body Count \u2013 Psychopath (feat. 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BODY COUNT\u00a0recently released the official music video for\u00a0&#8220;Psychopath&#8221;, its first new single since 2020&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;Bum-Rush&#8221;, which won a\u00a0Grammy&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=8395\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BODY COUNT Releases New Song &#8216;Fuck What You Heard&#8217;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8397,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8395\/revisions\/8397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}