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Ernie C (left) and Ice-T perform onstage with Body Count on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Body Count rip through their Comfortably Numb reimagining on the Tonight Show, as Ernie C does his best David Gilmour

By Jackson Maxwell Published

In an interview with host Jimmy Fallon, Ice-T recalled getting the approval (and assist) for the modern-minded reworking from Gilmour – while also getting the go-ahead from Roger Waters

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David Gilmour, and Ernie C and Ice-T of Body Count, performing live
Body Count and David Gilmour release radical reimagining of Comfortably Numb in 2024’s most surprising crossover

By Matt Owen Published

The Pink Floyd legend revisits one of his greatest guitar tracks in a completely new light with the help of the heavy metal institution

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Dave Mustaine (left) and Ice-T perform onstage
Dave Mustaine is set to collaborate with Body Count once again, Ice-T says

By Jackson Maxwell Published

Mustaine appeared on the metal legends' 2017 album, Bloodlust, with Body Count frontman Ice-T subsequently returning the favor on Megadeth's 2022 track, Night Stalkers

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Body Count’s Ice-T and Ernie C look back on the making of – and reaction to – their incendiary 1992 debut album

By Brad Angle Published

How Body Count came out of South Central L.A. and cooked up an explosive sound informed by Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, punk, Slayer and a burning sense of injustice

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[L-R] Randy Blythe, Ernie C and Juan Garcia
Lamb of God are in the studio with Body Count guitarists Ernie C and Juan Garcia

By Sam Roche Published

The pair have hailed the Randy Blythe-fronted metal heavyweights' new material as “slamming”

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[L-R] H.E.R., Thundercat, Albert Hammond Jr. and Ernie C
H.E.R., Thundercat, The Strokes, Body Count win at the Grammys 2021

By Sam Roche Published

Fantastic Negrito, Taylor Swift, Andrew Watt and Brittany Howard also bagged awards

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From politically charged metal to rootsy grooves and folk lyricism, here are this week's essential guitar tracks

By Michael Astley-Brown, Jackson Maxwell, Sam Roche Published

The fresh new songs guitarists need to hear

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Body Count Prep Crushing New LP, ‘Bloodlust’

By Guitar World Staff Published

On Bloodlust—out Friday, March 31, via Century Media—Body Count deliver a colossus that will send Tipper Gore and the PMRC into flashback-driven seizures.

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Watch Ice-T and Body Count's Killer Cover of Slayer's "Raining Blood"

By Damian Fanelli Published

When Ice-T and Body Count decided toposttheir very first Periscope video last week, they did it in typically grand fashion—by covering Slayer's "Raining Blood."

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