Body Count - Manslaughter

Published June 22 2014

*=Staff's pick	Talk Shit, Get Shot Pray For Death 99 Problems BC Back To Rehab Manslaughter Get A Job Institutionalized 2014* Pop Bubble Enter The Dark Side* Bitch In The Pit Black Voodoo Sex Wanna Be A Gangsta I Will Always Love You 99 Problems BC (Rock Mix)*

Genre	Crossover Metal	Ice-T	Vocals
Tracks	13	Ernie C	Guitar
Running time	50 Min.	Juan Of The Dead	Guitar
Label	Sumerian Records/ADA Nordic	Vincent Price	Bass
Release	10 June 2014	Ill Will	Drums
Country	USA	Sean E Sean	Sampler
Producer	Will Putney
Similar artists	---

Ice-T and his Body Count troop deliver pretty much what's expected. It's groovy heavy metal based on hip hop or rap elements, or whatever's preferred to name it. It includes highly explicit lyrics and this is definitely nothing you should listen to if you can't stand political incorrectness and dirty language that contains several Motherfucker, Ho, Bitch, Fuck and such words. Your parents won't probably encourage you guys playing this record with fully open windows at max volume to the entire neighborhood.

Body Count's ability to connect two completely different types of music is nothing but exceptional and remarkable. As a near total headbanger, I somehow am able to extract things to relate to and when he is given the room, Ernie C's lead guitar is cool and relevant. Ice-T's lyrics deal with a lot of today's problems and situations that man has a tough time to overcome. I know it's juvenile, but I love the accurate lyrics in Institutionalized 2014, which is sort of a cover version of Suicidal Tendencies' old tune, but with almost completely newly written lyrical content.

Manslaughter seems in total a little old fashioned and the lion's share of this material could might as well have been written over two decades ago and the album's overall sound also originates from that period, even if it's naturally a little cleaner at this point. I would be exaggerating if I told you that this record will blow you away, but it truly has its moments of impact though. It's in a sense intense, resolute and straightforward and I believe that fans to this band won't have any trouble digging this one.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
6	8	6	6	6

Summary
6 chalices of 10 - Tobbe