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Body Count begin recording new album

Author Jad - 21.2.2022

Body Count have apparently begun the recording process for their next studio album, “Merciless”.

According to frontman Ice T, the group “just finished the first day of writing, recording and track selection for [the] new Body Count album.”

A late spring release through Century Media Records seems likely.

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