This is the band that dropped hip-hop attitude into heavy metal and hard rock music before Rage Against The Machine, Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park made records, despite nary an ounce of rapping over their mosh-pit inducing songs. Body Count featuring Ice-T is a full on metal band, fronted by a legendary rapper who drops knowledge, violent stories and verbal middle fingers, with a bellowing growl descended from some of punk rock’s most pissed off screamers. Driven by the same iconoclastic, antiauthoritarian and pimp-turned-poet mentality that made Ice-T a gangster rap pioneer, a platinum artist from the streets and a household name in film and television before “rapper/actor” was a commonly used term, Body Count flipped the script with the same tenacity when they bumrushed heavy metal. Body Count is back to reclaim the crown, arriving just as circle pits and denim vests make a return to the underground.