Lock Up is an English

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, originally formed by

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(ex-

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) and

Jesse Pintado Jesus "Jesse" Ernesto Pintado Andrade (July 12, 1969 – August 27, 2006) was a Mexican-American guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for the British grindcore band Napalm Death. He started in the grindcore band Terrorizer where he record ...

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). Lock Up was joined by

Peter Tägtgren Alf Peter Tägtgren (born 3 June 1970) is a Swedish musician, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He is the founder, main songwriter, lead vocalist, and guitarist of death metal band Hypocrisy as well as the industrial metal band Pain i ...

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) for its debut album, 1999's ''

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'', and

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) for 2002's ''

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'' and a Japanese tour. The band was later joined by guitarist Anton Reisenegger (

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

Brutal Truth Brutal Truth was an American grindcore band from New York City, formed by ex- Anthrax, Nuclear Assault, and Stormtroopers of Death bass guitarist Dan Lilker in 1990. The group disbanded in 1999, but reformed in 2006 and continued to release mus ...

) handled the vocals. In April 2020, it was announced that drummer Nick Barker had left the band. He was 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 vocal duties together with current vocalist Kevin Sharp.

Members

;Current *

– bass (1998–present) *

– vocals (2002–2014, 2021–present) * Anton Reisenegger – guitar (2006–present) *Kevin Sharp – vocals (2014–present) *Adam Jarvis – acoustic drums (2020–present) ;Former *

– acoustic drums (1998–2020) *

– guitar (1998–2006) *

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

Danny Lilker Daniel A. Lilker (born October 18, 1964) is an American semi-retired musician best known as a bass player, but also guitarist, pianist, drummer and vocalist. He was the bassist for the thrash metal band Nuclear Assault and was a founding member ...

– bass (2012)

Timeline

Discography

* ''

'' (1999) * ''

'' (2002) * '' Necropolis Transparent'' (2011) * ''Demonization'' (2017) * ''The Dregs of Hades'' (2021)

References

External links

*Steve Huey
Lock Up Biography

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