
Back in September we highlighted the fact that Body Count – the long-standing LA-based heavy metal rock/rap outfit with rapper Ice-T as its centrepiece – had just recorded and released a highly unlikely cover version of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb.
Giving the classic their own distinctive spin, the band used the track – with an injection of new lyrics – to highlight the way that we’ve all become numb to the world’s problems, with increasing apathy around doing something about it.