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InVisions Break The "Deadlock" With New Album

Metalcore was undeniably most popular in the mid 2000s through to the early part of the next decade, but despite what some metal "purists" will insist, the love of breakdowns and the screaming/clean singing combination never went away. Now in the 2020s, we're seeing the rise of younger bands who were influenced by their forebears, many of whom with fresh ideas. This leads us nicely to York's own, InVisions.

InVisions were formed in 2016 and only a year later, released their debut full length, "Never Nothing." Not too long afterwards, the group followed their first outing with their sophomore effort, "Between You And Me" and now, in 2022, after a three year wait, InVisions are once more breaking through to the frontlines of modern British metal bands with their latest offering, "Deadlock." To find out more about the record, the band themselves and where they see their style of music in the current climate of metal, I spoke with guitarist Lucas Gabb and vocalist Ben Ville, who provided a huge insight into the story and emotion behind this album. You can watch it in full below.

Diamond Oz: First of all, congratulations on your new album, "Deadlock." What can you tell me about the title of this album?

Lucas Gabb: It's the first time we've used a title track, which is quite special I guess. We've been stuck in a lockdown for the best part of two years and the biggest part of our identity, which is playing in a band, was taken away and it kind of feels like you're stuck and going nowhere. The title for the track and the record didn't come until after the song was completed. I think we had most of the album completed and we were trying to name that track and so we kind of looked through the lyrics of the album and noticed that a lot of the stuff was a re-occurring factor, it was like hitting that ceiling and so once the idea of "Deadlock" came round as the song name, it just encompassed everything on the album; self doubt, trying to figure out your own worth and where you fit into the world outside of just being a musician. I think it's definitely a cool thing for us. It's captured how we were all feeling inside the last two years and put it in this box and it means we've been able to kind of let it all go and hopefully move forward.

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