Lock Up
"Hate Breeds Suffering "
(Nuclear Blast) 

With the precision of a jack hammer, Britain's Lock Up are back. This is good news for those of us who like our metal as intense as humanly possible. The first song "Feeding on the Opiate" storms through, racing like a grindcore anthem. It slams into the second song, "Castrate the Wreckage" which, in turn, morphs into "Violent Reprisal". I realized that the whole theme of this CD seems to be a continual trip as if I'm sitting in a blender on high speed. There is no letting up. There are no breaks, there are no seconds to catch one's breath. Forget it, you can't fight the force. It's like being caught in a riptide; you can't swim out of it, you must give in and let it take you where it will, for Lock Up is more powerful than you or I. But could you expect anything less, with Nick Barker, Peter (Lindberg on the album) Tatgren, Jesse Pintado and Shane Embury? I think not.

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