LOCK UP Cancel Maryland Death Fest Appearance

In what typically becomes a daily ritual in the weeks leading up to Maryland Death Fest, another band has dropped off the bill. This time around, the band is death-grinders Lock Up. The reason? The pesky and difficult to obtain American VISA. The band states "We regret to announce that LOCK UP will not be performing at this year’s MDF. We are days away from the festival and our visas have yet to show up. Everything has been handled the right way but apparently things are taking longer these days due to a larger amounts of red tape and bureaucracy. We hope to make things up shortly when our visa actually arrive with some North American tour dates!"

LOCK UP’s upcoming release, Necropolis Transparent, will feature several guest appearances from HYPOCRISY/PAIN mainman (and one time LOCK UP vocalist) Peter Tägtgren along with Jeff Walker (CARCASS, BRUJERIA).

LOCK UP is the death-grind super group featuring Shane Embury (NAPALM DEATH, VENOMOUS CONCEPT), Nicolas Barker (ex-CRADLE OF FILTH, ex-DIMMU BORGIR), Tomas Lindberg (AT THE GATES, DISFEAR) and Anton Reisenegger (CRIMINAL, PENTAGRAM). Their new album Necropolis Transparent will be released on July 1 (Europe) and July 12 (North America) 2011.

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Tags:  Lock Up, Nuclear Blast Records , Maryland Death Fest 

Jason Fisher    May 25, 2011