During a recent interview with Metal Hammer, Body Count frontman Ice-T offered some praise for the band’s producer Will Putney (Fit For An Autopsy, Better Lovers). According to him, Putney is “the Dr. Dre of metal.”
Ice-T said the following about working with Putney on Body Count’s new album “Merciless”:
“Every time I take on a new album I’m trying to outdo what we did, so it’s gonna get heavier, it’s gonna get harder. We’re working with the same team for the last four albums, Will Putney, who I always say is the Dr. Dre of metal, and we got a settled band. It’s hard when you’re always trying to shuffle the deck.”
He then elaborated on why he compares Putney to Dre:
“Well, I’ve always said that Dre is the best hip-hop producer, because he makes band’s sound like themselves but dope. Meaning Eminem does not sound like 50 Cent, 50 Cent does not sound like Snoop, Snoop does not sound like Game, Game does not sound like Kendrick Lamar. Will has the ability to work with all kinds of metal bands and make them all sound like themselves.
We don’t sound like Fit For An Autopsy! A lot of producers make the band sound like the producer and not the band. The ability to listen to Body Count and make us sound like Body Count, I don’t know any other producers that have that ability. He does five bands, and they all sound dope, and they all sound different. That’s an ability to understand what that band is.”
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