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Tampa’s Born Free Pub & Grill might be our favorite new venue find of 2022, and in the final weeks of the year it stays true to form by dishing out this punishing bill of metal and hardcore.

Long Island outfit Godseyes plays Born Free Pub & Grill in Tampa on Wednesday, Dec. 7 along with dark and heavy Virginia band Terror Cell, plus lucha mask-wearing wrestling-themed Florida grindcore unit Shining Wizard. Local support comes from ‘90s-style hardcore punk band Dead Mirrors.
Don’t crack your head open on the floor, guys.

This article appears in Dec 1-7, 2022.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...