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LOCK UP Part Ways With Drummer Nick Barker
April 16th, 2020


Lock Up 2017 (l-r): Shane Embury, Kevin Sharp, Anton Reisenegger and Nick Barker


International deathgrind band Lock Up have parted ways with drummer Nick Barker, confirming this development on April 16th, 2020.

Barker commented: “After ‘not feeling it’ for a considerable amount of time and pondering my future within the ranks of the band, I’ve decided to call it a quits with Lock Up! There’s no bad blood or ill feeling in any way, those guys are my brothers and I wish them well. I have a couple of new musical endeavours in the pipeline that will come to light when the time is right.

“I’d like to take this opportunity to thank my ex-band mates and all the fans around the world for their support over the course of 20-plus years I served as drummer in the band”

Bassist Shane Embury added: “I am sad to see Nick leave the band, but we have discussed this a lot and it’s time to move on for all of us I guess – no bad blood. Along with Jesse Pintado (R.I.P.), Nick and I formed Lock Up in 1998. We have had a fun and crazy ride together on all those years and I wish Nick nothing but the best for the future.”

As a founding member of Lock Up, Nick Barker appeared on all four of the band’s full-length studio albums to date; Pleasures Pave Sewers (1999), Hate Breeds Suffering (2002), Necropolis Transparent (2011) and Demonization (2017).