Physique Depend have unveiled the title observe from their new album Cruel. The brand new music and accompanying music video arrive a day earlier than the LP’s launch on Friday (November twenty second).
The vicious observe pits Ice-T’s bars towards a riff that sounds just like the intro from Black Sabbath’s “Iron Man.” It creates a doom vibe that drops right into a refrain of Slayer-like thrash with ominous gang vocals chanting the music and album title (“Cruel!”). Ice-T proceeds to make his level clear: “I’ve solely obtained one life to reside / I obtained no extra fucks to provide.”
The Jay Scorsese-directed NSFW video is sort of a sight, recreating the stunning Cruel album cowl — Ice-T as a torturous surgeon going to work on a KKK member — as if it have been a scene from a horror movie. Scorsese additionally directed the video for earlier single “Psychopath,” one other homage to horror and splatter movies.
Cruel is Physique Depend’s first studio album since 2020’s Carnivore, an album cycle that was halted by the pandemic. Earlier than they may even tour in assist the album, they have been requested to file the follow-up, which turned Cruel. Studio periods started as early as 2022.
“We dropped Carnivore in March 2020 and the pandemic dropped proper on high of us,” Ice-T advised Kerrang!. “We by no means obtained to tour that album, despite the fact that we had like 40 totally different dates arrange in Europe. As a result of I’m on tv, we solely have this little two-month block the place we are able to get out on the highway. Then the label have been, like, ‘Give us one other file!’ I used to be, like, ‘What?! You need me to simply go shit out one other file actual fast?!’”
He continued: “We’d simply received the Grammy [2021’s ‘Best Metal Performance’ for ‘Bum-Rush’] so we have been on an actual excessive, but it surely was nonetheless fairly tough to grind one other album out. I wanted time. Whenever you’ve launched an album — having written perhaps 20 songs, of which 12 make it — you’re all out of concepts. And also you don’t need to rehash these concepts once more. However as soon as we obtained going, we obtained it achieved.”
The title observe “Cruel” is the fourth single from the album following the aforementioned “Psychopath,” “Fuck What You Heard,” and a placing cowl of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” that includes David Gilmour.
Stream the video for “Cruel” beneath.