BODY COUNT Is Mixing their new ‘Carnivore’ Album

BODY COUNT, the metal band fronted by hip-hop legend, actor and director Ice-T, is putting the finishing touches on its new album, “Carnivore”, for a tentative early 2020 release.

Asked by a fan on Twitter how the new BODY COUNT record is coming along, Ice-T responded: “Mixing it as we speak.. No solid release date set yet.“

Back in June 2018, 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.