Body Count: Bloodlust version on CD in Standard edition. This particular edition was published in Europe in publishing company Century Media on 5. March 2021.

Also gut, Amerika, du wolltest es so - du hast die schlafende Bestie geweckt. Das hier ist nicht der Ice-T, den deine Mutter mag, der sanftmütige TV-Star aus "Law And Order: Special Victims Unit", der durch sein charmantes Auftreten bekannt ist. Nein, das hier ist Body Count, das Gangster-Metal-Kollektiv, dessen Musik dem Mainstream-Amerika das Fürchten gelehrt hat. Dessen kontroverser Track "Cop Killer" bereits vor einem Vierteljahrhundert Politiker, Eltern und Strafverfolgungsbehörden auf die Barrikaden trieb. Voll mit sozialkritischen rechten Haken und Körpertreffern, ist es ein akustisches und lyrisches Manifest eines gebrochenen Amerikas. "Bloodlust" ist ein wütendes Album und seine Texte über Polizeibrutalität und soziale Ungerechtigkeiten von erschreckender Aktualität. Product information So America, now you've done it - you've awakened a sleeping giant. This is not your parents' Ice-T, the mild-mannered star of the TV series Law & Order: who sells lemonade along with precocious children in a current Geico commercial, and his charm reaches new dimensions. No, this is BODY COUNT, the gangster-metal collective that scared the bejesus out of politicians, parents and law enforcement a quarter-century ago when its renegade track "Cop Killer" was released. That's not to say that Ice-T and BODY COUNT have been silent for the past 25 years, but as Ice is quick to point out, you can't start a movement if people aren't willing to move. "Music happens in climates," says the BODY COUNT frontman when asked what he expects from the band's new opus, aptly titled BLOODLUST, a biting collection of social hooks and body blows that paint a picture of an America in utter decay. "Groups like Rage Against The Machine and Korn were born at a time when the world was in chaos, and then the music entered a period of disillusionment where hip-hop became nothing but bottle popping. Now we have impending doom again, racism is at its peak, and it's our season again. This is the optimal time for a BODY COUNT record - as an artist you can be as pissed off as you want, but if the audience is idle and more interested in their chai lattes, well..." Ice bursts out laughing before he can finish his statement. Nothing against six-dollar coffee drinks that have more sugar and syrup in them than dark roast caffeine, but our man is on to something. This isn't about the elephant in the room or the jackasses sulking in the corner, it's about a culture turned upside down and people too distracted by fluff and filler to care about changing their world. "The sixties was real music and BODY COUNT was born into it - I'll tell you what I think of that shit, that's how I am and that's how I'll always be. Now, in 2017, let's see if people are really as pissed off as they look. We're dealing with a generation that has never known anger. They grew up on Obama, now they're softened up." BODY COUNT was born in a time when hip-hop was the soundtrack of the street, brought to life by Bloods, Cripps and gangsters who lived and died by a code of street justice that today's reality TV stars and internet wannabes can't even fathom. It wasn't the sound of middle-class American kids playing dress-up and feeling fashionable. And heavy metal? It wasn't nice and clean for mainstream America to swallow like a watered-down shot of their favorite sugary lemonade spray as a chaser. Metal was about long hair, middle fingers and a loud indifference to social norms. Maybe we can blame BODY COUNT for how low we've sunk - after they combined metal and hip-hop like napalm, politicians took notice and launched a career around warning labels and text witch hunts. On BLOODLUST [Century Media], BODY COUNT deliver a colossus that will send Tipper Gore and the PMRC into flashback-induced fits. It's a starkly insane and angry litany of lyrical messages that paint a four-dimensional picture of police brutality, racism and social inequality. Tracks like "No Lives Matter," "Black Hoodie" and album opener "Civil War" featuring metal icon Dave Mustaine pulse with relevance and slap with an urgency that's been missing for far too long. "I may have an acting job to fall back on, but my core is still looking out and saying people are a bunch of pussies. What the fuck!?! I've never had trouble putting myself in danger, now I want people to stand up and open their eyes. People are stupid, they don't know anything. Cops shooting kids and saying it's white people's fault - it's not white people, it's cops! Racism is real, but that's not all that's going on. I'm singing to my white audience and letting them know that I see them as allies, and I'm singing to my black audience and telling them to judge the devil by his deeds." White, black, blue, or red, the songs on BLOODLUST are colorblind and empty any boundaries that might separate Ice-T's "original gangster" roots, guitarist Ernie C and his searing metal guitar work, and guests, including the legendary Dave Mustaine of Megadeth on "Civil War", Lamb Of God frontman Randy Blythe on "Walk With Me", Sepultura/Soulfly icon Max Cavalera on "All Love Is Lost" and even a hell of a thrilling cover version of the Slayer classic "Raining Blood"." "I'm trying to lose that one-dimensional gangster image," Ice-T says of his wide-ranging scope and bristling influence on popular culture. "Motherfuckers who play tough are the fakest motherfuckers in the world - we right now, that's what human beings look like in real life. We can joke around and talk shit, we can hit a political note and be stubborn and angry as fuck, and then on another note you can watch cartoons and bounce a baby on your knee. I'm not worried about people misinterpreting me anymore - the morons will misinterpret it and the real fans will murder them for it. The intention here was to make great music, open people's eyes and offer them some entertainment. People should rock out to this - I didn't want to make a mix tape, I wanted to make a BODY COUNT album." Let the movement begin.

Album spans genres Rock, Thrash Metal, Hardcore and Heavy Metal. Standard CD Jewelcase.