{"id":45610,"date":"2016-06-18T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=45610"},"modified":"2016-06-18T20:39:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-18T20:39:36","slug":"news-body-count-sign-album-contract-with-century-media-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-body-count-sign-album-contract-with-century-media-records\/","title":{"rendered":"BODY COUNT Sign Album Contract With Century Media Records (June 18th, 2016) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>BODY COUNT Sign Album Contract With Century Media Records<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>June 18th, 2016<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nLos Angeles, California-based metal group Body Count \u2013 fronted by hip-hop rapper, actor and director Ice-T \u2013 has signed an album contract with Century Media Records, revealing this development on June 16th, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Ice-T issued the following statement: \u201cIt\u2019s cool to be a member of the Century Label Group alongside such a lot of well-established metal artists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith our last album, <em>Manslaughter<\/em>, we tested the waters and got a great response from the fans and critics. Now it\u2019s time to go kill it and make a more aggressive album and keep the Body Count style intact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWill Putney is like a member of the band and has an excellent ear. He\u2019s a great producer because he captures the true essence of our band\u2019s sound. Once we are done writing the song, it\u2019s his job to step in and make it sound better. He helps move the record in the right direction. We\u2019re anticipating working with him again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce the record\u2019s done, we\u2019re going to shoot a lot of music videos and perform spot-dates on certain tests, etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Body Count is in the midst of recording its sixth studio album, slated for late 2016 issue. As was the case with previous effort <em>Manslaughter<\/em>, Will Putney is helming production &#8211; as referenced in Ice-T\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n<p>Fifth studio record <em>Manslaughter<\/em> was released in June 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BODY COUNT Sign Album Contract With Century Media Records June 18th, 2016 Los Angeles, California-based metal group Body Count \u2013 fronted by hip-hop rapper, actor and director Ice-T \u2013 has signed an album contract with Century Media Records, revealing this development on June 16th, 2016. Ice-T issued the following statement: \u201cIt\u2019s cool to be a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3029],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-body-count-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45610"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45612,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45610\/revisions\/45612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}