interviewer ice explain body count ice t 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 because 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 favourites 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 favourite groups and always will be trapped in purgatory a lifeless object alive awaiting reprisal death will be their acquisition 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 my sinful glare at nothing holds thoughts of death behind it skeletons in my mind commence tearing at my sanity vessels in my brain carry death until my birth come and die with me forever share insanity do you want to die 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