Lock Up is an English

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supergroup.

History

The band originally formed by

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), Nick Barker (ex-

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) and

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). Lock Up was joined by

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) for its debut album, 1999's ''

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'', and

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) for 2002's ''Hate Breeds Suffering'' and a Japanese tour. The band was later joined by guitarist

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and

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) in place of the late Pintado. Lock Up have played very few live shows. In 2009, the band announced that they would play the

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that year. The line-up featured Embury, Barker, Lindberg and Reisenegger. It was touted as the band's last live show; however, they later booked more shows for 2010 and 2012. During February of that year, they scheduled a ten show mini-tour in the United States. It was their first time playing in that country. Shane Embury was unable to make the shows so Danny Lilker from Nuclear Assault filled in on bass for the duration of the trek. On 3 December 2010, Lock Up uploaded the first new piece of music in eight years, a track titled "Life of Devastation", to the band's official

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page. The song is set to appear on a split seven-inch single with

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in 2011. The band's third studio album, ''Necropolis Transparent'', was recorded in November and December 2010 at HVR Studios in

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, England, and features guest appearances by Peter Tägtgren and Jeff Walker (

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). It was released on 1 July in Europe and 12 July in North America by

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. The fourth album, ''Demonization'', was released in March 2017 through Listenable Records. This time Kevin Sharp (

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) handled the vocals. In April 2020, it was announced that drummer Nick Barker had left the band. He would be replaced by Adam Jarvis less than a month later. In February 2021, it was announced former vocalist Tomas Lindberg had rejoined the band and would handle vocals alongside the current vocalist at the time, Kevin Sharp.

Members

Current *

– bass (1998–present) *

– vocals (2002–2014, 2021–present) *

– guitar (2006–present) *Kevin Sharp – vocals (2014–present) *Adam Jarvis – drums (2020–present) Former * Nick Barker – drums (1998–2020) *

– guitar (1998–2006; his death) *

– vocals (1998–2002) Touring musicians *Barry Savage – guitar (2002) *

Danny Lilker Daniel Adam Lilker (born October 18, 1964) is an American musician best known as a bass player, but also guitarist, pianist, and vocalist. He has played bass in numerous Heavy metal music, heavy metal bands, including Anthrax (American band), An ...

– bass (2012)

Timeline

Discography

* ''

'' (1999) * ''Hate Breeds Suffering'' (2002) * ''Play Fast or Die: Live in Japan'' (2005) * ''Necropolis Transparent'' (2011) * ''Demonization'' (2017) * ''The Dregs of Hades'' (2021)

References

External links

*Steve Huey
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