{"id":83022,"date":"2020-04-16T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T00:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=83022"},"modified":"2020-04-16T13:08:08","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T13:08:08","slug":"news-lock-up-part-ways-with-drummer-nick-barker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-lock-up-part-ways-with-drummer-nick-barker\/","title":{"rendered":"LOCK UP Part Ways With Drummer Nick Barker (April 16th, 2020) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>LOCK UP Part Ways With Drummer Nick Barker<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>April 16th, 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedleft\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/lockup2017promophotonews.jpg\" border=\"0\"><br \/><span class=\"smalltext\"><strong><em>Lock Up 2017 (l-r): Shane Embury, Kevin Sharp, Anton Reisenegger and Nick Barker<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><br \/>\nInternational deathgrind band Lock Up have parted ways with drummer Nick Barker, confirming this development on April 16th, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Barker commented: \u201cAfter \u2018not feeling it\u2019 for a considerable amount of time and pondering my future within the ranks of the band, I\u2019ve decided to call it a quits with Lock Up! There\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d 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\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bassist Shane Embury added: \u201cI am sad to see Nick leave the band, but we have discussed this a lot and it\u2019s time to move on for all of us I guess &#8211; 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a founding member of Lock Up, Nick Barker appeared on all four of the band\u2019s full-length studio albums to date; <em>Pleasures Pave Sewers<\/em> (1999), <em>Hate Breeds Suffering<\/em> (2002), <em>Necropolis Transparent<\/em> (2011) and <em>Demonization<\/em> (2017).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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: \u201cAfter \u2018not feeling it\u2019 for a considerable amount of time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lock-up-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83026,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83022\/revisions\/83026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}