Ice-T and his heavy metal band Body Count have announced a UK and European tour for their ‘Merciless’ album release. The band will start the European leg of the tour on June 5 at the Mystic Festival in Poland and make their way to destinations including Germany, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Croatia, and France. Post a stopover in France, the band will then start the UK leg of the tour on June 30 at the O2 Kentish Town Forum in London, followed by shows in Manchester and Glasgow in July. General sale for tickets is set to start on February 2 via Ticketmaster.
The forthcoming LP is due out this year through Century Media Records and the tour takes its name from the album. The band released the album ‘Carnivore’ in 2020 and it played out against a backdrop of high-profile police brutality and American football player Colin Kaepernick blacklisting by the NFL, making its belters, such as ‘No Lives Matter’ and ‘Civil War’, even more potent. The band won Best Metal Performance at the 2021 Grammy Awards for their track ‘Bum-Rush’.
Ice-T wrote on Twitter in 2022 that he was proud to say they had finished the first day of writing, recording, and track selection for their new album and that it was expected to be even harder than ‘Carnivore’. The band’s latest album did not achieve the same bite and pointed barb of its predecessor in parts, but there are several standout tracks.
Ice-T recently took to Twitter to discuss why he believes the fighting game series, Def Jam, isn’t on modern platforms. The rapper thinks EA would have to pay for voice and music rights again to bring back the game, but he does not believe any of the artists were paid substantially for their original involvement. It was a case of not wanting to be left out of the game, he said
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