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Posted 05-07-2002 12:37 by daVid |
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Gaat er nog iemand heen? Het is in baroeg.
Voor degene die het niet kennen hier een review.
Zie ook lockup666.com
daVid
H A T E B R E E D S S U F F E R I N G
9.5 Terrorizer magazine
This lot are about as close to a grindcore supergroup as you are gonna get and you can count yourself lucky, because the dark souls that comprise Lock Up - Napalm's Shane Embury and Jess Piintado, ex-Cradle drummer Nick Barker and former At The Gates front man Tomas Lindberg have decided to give you a second album of ferocious grindcore/death metal.
"Feeding on the Opiate" smashes into your eardrums like a rather large brick and keeps pummelling your fleshy lobes until you can hear no more. Basically these songs hark back to the days of very, very early Slayer, Carcass and of course Napalm. What these songs lack in finesse they make up for in sheer brutality. "Violent reprisal" showcases the raw-as fuck- from new bot Tomas and he delivers his lines with venom practically dripping from his maw.
Title track "Hate Breeds Suffering" just leaves you aurally stunned.
Nick Barker must have sold his soul to Satan, such is his brilliance on the tubs. Indeed the 100 mph riffs, blastbeats, rolls and double bass spazz-outs are quite simply breathtaking. The bass lead into the blast beat heaven of "Catharsis" recalls early repulsion and prime era Napalm (of course) whilst Jesse's fretwork on "High Tide in a Sea of Blood" could be Chuck Schuldiner playing songs from genre defining classic "Leprosy".
To be honest it's hard listening to this aural petrol bomb of an album without contemplating exactly what Lock Up have achieved. In regards to all the guilty parties' day jobs (especially Shane and Jesse's) they have and will continue to contribute sterling examples of brutal music to the masses but the scary thing is this; if "Hate Breeds Suffering" is the work of mere hours in the studio, just think what horrors they could conjure if they really put their minds to it.
All in all, this album reeks of the old school and in the same respects echoes the sentiments of the ensembled players. In other words this is a must buy, borrow or steal album for all those who enjoy musicianship at it's finest by some of the founding figures of the grindcore genre. Brilliantly uncompromising.
Stanley Modd
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