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MAX & IGGOR RETURN BENEATH ARISE - Anton Reisenegger & Max Cavalera Teatro Cariola Santiago, Chile. Noviembre 13, de 2018. © JORGE L. GONZALEZ GUERRA

[themetalscience]

Album of the Week. LOCK UP—"Demonization"

It is rare to find a musician having the amount of fun that Nick Barker seems to be having on this disc and also with the toms on his drum kit on LOCK UP’s new disc “Demonization.”

If there is one dominant thing you won’t help but notice over and over during the vicious barrage of auditory violence that LOCK UP wield against their listeners during “Demonization,” it is the constant drum fills that feature the upper part of the man’s drum kit as he just flies through the whole thing. Someone pulled him aside and told him ‘go fast’, and that is what he did for most of the album.

“Demonization” arrives almost six years after the group’s last album, “Necropolis Transparent,” which keeps with the group’s pattern of infrequent releases, as “Necropolis” had come out close to a decade after the album prior to that one.

LOCK UP’s lineup has maintained both grind legend Shane Embury and long-time death metal journeyman drummer Nick Barker. Guitarist Anton Reisenegger joined them a few years prior to the release of “Necropolis Transparent” and former BRUTAL TRUTH/long-running VENOMOUS CONCEPT vocalist Kevin Sharp picked up the vocal reigns in 2014.

LOCK UP’s approach to writing music and the speed at which they play it is almost purpose-built to bring out the rawest screams of their vocalists, and Kevin Sharp is perfect in his new role, sounding harsher than hell throughout “Demonization.” Much of his delivery is extremely hoarse and delivered at an extremely fast pace.

The thing about LOCK UP, their chosen genre fare, and the “Demonization” album as a whole, is that there is a severe lack of subtlety. You can almost guess by the title of “Demons Raging” what the song is going to sound like. It is noisy, turbulent, and destructive.

It’s an exhausting experience, but it’s that burnt-to-a-crisp extremity you’re after in the first place, so if you want to feel like a scorched skeleton by the time an album wraps up, “Demonization” is the wall of fire meant to do that for you.

(Source—nocleansinging.com)