BODY COUNT – Slayer’s Raining Blood / Postmortem (2017)

Body Count is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1990. The group is fronted by Ice-T, who first established himself as a rapper but co-founded the group with lead guitarist Ernie C out of their interest in heavy metal music. Ice-T took on the role of vocalist and writing the lyrics for most of Body Count’s songs, while Ernie C has been responsible for writing the group’s music.

Body Count is a band I put together just to let one of my best friends Ernie C play his guitar. He’s always been playing guitar. We all went to Crenshaw High School together in South Central Los Angeles, and I had the idea of let’s make a metal band, let’s make rock band… ‘Cause I had been to Europe, and I noticed that the kids would mosh off of hip-hop. so we put the band together, and I used the three bands that were my favorites at the time to set the tone: we used the impending doom of a group like Black Sabbath, who pretty much invented metal, the punk sensibility of somebody like Suicidal, who basically put that gangbanger style from Venice, California into the game, and the speed and the precision of Slayer, one of my favorite groups and always will be.

ICE-T

Treach, who sings along with Ice-T, is an American rapper and actor, best known for his hip hop group Naughty by Nature.

Raining Blood

Trapped in purgatory A lifeless object, alive Awaiting reprisal Death will be their acquittance The sky is turning red Return to power draws near Fall into me, the sky’s crimson tears Abolish the rules made of stone

Pierced from below, souls of my treacherous past Betrayed by many Now ornaments dripping above Awaiting the hour of reprisal Your time slips away

Raining blood From a lacerated sky Bleeding its horror Creating my structure Now I shall reign in blood

Postmortem

[Verse 1] Funeral held for the depression of man Holds the key to his own death Entering a tomb of a corpse yet conceived Tighten the tourniquet around your neck Sifting away the debris of hated life Cold touch of death begins to chill your spine Seeking life beyond your perishment Repeating words echoing through your mind [Verse 2] Chanting lines of blind witchery To save yourself from extinction Wanting to die is your reason to live New life born from the oppressed Taste your blood as it trickles through the air Another casualty, beyond the shadows you fall Losing ground, the fate you feel draws near Fatality, reality, await the final call

[Instrumental Break]

[Verse 3] My sinful glare at nothing holds thoughts of death behind it Skeletons in my mind commence tearing at my sanity Vessels in my brain carrying death until my birth Come and die with me forever, share insanity Do you wanna die?!

[Verse 4] The waves of blood are rushing near, pounding at the walls of lies Turning off my sanity, reaching back into my mind Non-rising body from the grave showing new reality What I am, what I want, I’m only after death