Interlock - Crisis/./Reinvention (2005)

   The one and only full-lenght album of Interlock sounds like a band's attempt to jump right into the middle of the elite of the '00s mainstream metal scene. They did that by following a recipe from the imaginary book of "How to become fancy now". The problem could be that it's mostly too late when similar recipes are able to manifest, cause the main musical scene takes another direction meanwhile.
   Interlock was different from anything that could be heard in the British scene. They didn't involve any local traditional influences, but to copy the actual American trends is also a very common alternative way there (mostly at less known bands). They mixed industrial with metal, but in a genuine way. The prints of the classical '80s and '90s industrial appearing only occasionally, they preferred to operate with the new, modern direction of the genre that is opened to a wider range of electronic music. It might be hard to distinguish the metal styles they involved. The strong nu metal influences are evident, but to express heavier depths, more aggressive features could be heard, like melodic death, but they were not afraid from blast beasts either. The vocals are showing the same diversity by male and female vocals the same time, clear singing and growling by both. "Crisis/./Reinvention" is like a bag of collection of everything that could have worked that time to spark wide interest. That's why the approach of the songs was various too, once melodic, than rageful, once emotional like a ballad, than dark and cold. Despite that they did their best to show the widest possible diversity and they did it in high quality, things have been changed in the music scene, and the imaginay recipe too with it. But Interlock's music still remained as an interesting alternative of industrial metal.