Band:	Interlock
Album:	Crisis/./Reinvention
Style:	Industrial metal
Release date:	2005
Guest review by:	Darkside Momo

01. Skinless
02. Eradication
03. The Waking Moment
04. Cause
05. Never//Lost
06. Straight
07. The Hold
08. Creed
09. {Cold Air}
10. Sleepless
11. In Stasis

After a few demos, Crisis/./Reinvention is the first album from the British band Interlock.

Mixing a lot of different music styles in their own sound (Extreme Metal, Industrial, Electro, Nu, jungle, emo), Interlock fuse it all in an aggressive metal form. The sound of the band is really heavy, with aggressive guitars, down tuned bass (somewhat like Nu Metal sometimes), and drums and keyboards adding their part to blow ears away. The riffs are mostly short little pieces of aggression, as are the keyboard parts.

The real highlight on Crisis/./Reinvention is the vocals. Yet, at first, you'll maybe concentrate more on riffs and blasts, listening to the two vocalists with a distracted ear. Yes, two vocalists, one male (Hal Sinden), one female (Emmeline May), and both can (and do) whisper, speak, sing, shout and grunt. No basic opposition, female clean voice / male harsh vocals here. Much more like cooperation, both respond to the other, sometimes singing together, but not always saying the same things...

Interlock are not always aggressive, there are a few quieter and more melodic parts. This Waking Moment starts quietly (before a crushing crescendo). The Hold is really dark, sombre and melancholic, with creepy guitars (and a reverberation adding to the unease). The vocals on this song are mostly clean or whispers, except at the end of the song, when tension and aggressiveness grows, and {Cold Air} is a small, minimalist piece of sound.

With this album, Interlock has made a huge hodge-podge, mixing it all in a coherent whole with their own sound. Definitely a band to discover if you like (mostly) brutal Industrial metal, with a good flair for dark atmospheres, and really varied and dynamic vocals.

Highlights: Eradication, This Waking Moment, Cause, The Hold.