It’s both factor, forming the greatness of this album. What ‘Black Illumination’ also proves is that Lock Up has also a great sense for grooving and slower riffs. ![]() A racing tempo is one of the key elements of Lock Up and songs like the brutal ‘Black Illumination’ are a great example for quality with speed. The quintet bases their music on aggressive and untamed metal, somewhere in the overlap between death metal and grindcore. Lock Up is not a band that counts on complex structures and playful details. Founding member Nick Baker left the band in 2020 and was replaced by Adam Jarvis who premiers on ‘The Dregs of Hades’. And another line-up change happened during the last years also. ![]() With ‘The Dregs of Hades’, Lock Up has their fifth full-length album in the starting blocks and one of the good news is the fact that Tomas Lindberg, frontman of the mighty At The Gates, is back. and after the tragic death of guitarist Jesse Pintado, Lock Up decided to move on, although it took a while before getting back into song writing mode. Embury and Baker have been the main characters of Lock Up. It was in 1998 when Shane Embury, Nicholas Baker and Jesse Pintado started this sonic wreckingball. What I do know is that this outfit is a collective of death metal and grindcore greats that firm under the moniker of Lock Up. ![]() If Lock Up is a supergroup, I don’t know.
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