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6.9

Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings

  • Artist(s): Ice-T, Vincent Price, Ill Will, Juan of the Dead
  • Summary: The sixth full-length release for the rap-metal band led by Ice-T features guest appearances from Dave Mustaine, Max Cavalera and Lamb Of God's Randy Blythe
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Black Hoodie
[Intro] All these people out here tripping off police brutality like this shit is something new Give me a fucking break I've been talking about this... See the rest of the song lyrics
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Kerrang!
    Mar 31, 2017
    80
    Murderous fantasy-fulfillment, it may be. But nobody does it better. [25 Mar 2017, p.50]
  2. 80
    A few lesser tracks overplay the voyeuristic horror-movie violence, but otherwise Body Count are sounding much more like hardcore elder statesmen than a shock-rock side project.
  3. Mar 31, 2017
    70
    Bloodlust may be pugilistic to a fault, but whatever it lacks in poeticism it more than makes up for in raw power.
  4. Mojo
    Mar 31, 2017
    60
    If previous Body Count efforts wobbled close to self-parody, Bloodlust nail-guns the impending doom of post-truth Trump America with incision. [May 2017, p.92]
  5. 60
    It’s a solid listen in its own right.
  6. Apr 13, 2017
    57
    They keep the music raw enough that it sounds almost-but-not-quite amateurish--again, following in the hardcore/early-thrash tradition--while Marrow’s willingness to indulge in comic absurdity with the lyrics makes Body Count’s preachiness more palatable.
  7. Mar 31, 2017
    42
    For every track that maintains an admirable speed-thrash spirit (“Walk With Me,” “Raining Blood”) there’s another that sounds more silly than rocking, like the cheesy posturing of “Here I Go Again,” a dark metal song as imagined by Roger Corman.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 1
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 1
  3. Negative: 0 out of 1
  1. Jul 1, 2017
    8
    This album is ridiculously listenable. Musically, this album is pretty much a perfect hardcore/thrash combination. The lyrics can be bothThis album is ridiculously listenable. Musically, this album is pretty much a perfect hardcore/thrash combination. The lyrics can be both terrible and fantastic depending on the track, but the flow is generally excellent. The riffs are mostly simple, but they sound good. That is more important than showing off with disjointed complexity as can be found in countless releases of metal bands over the last decade. The first track has an intro monologue from Dave Mustaine, who should really listen to this album as a refresher on how to write lyrics that actually follow the rhythm and resist the urge to over-produce every track to the point it might as well be a movie score. This "pretty good" but not the greatest album is better than anything Mustaine has put out since Countdown to Extinction.

    I could have lived without the Slayer covers.
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