Fear Frenzy 2023: Traitors w/He Is Legend/Cane Hill/Greyhaven/Kaonashi/Enox/Mouthbreather/Gas FL/more

Traitors goes hard. Last March, the Tampa-based metalcore outfit’s drummer Stephen Arango had to drop off a tour after breaking his hand on the face of a man who died to rob him. A month before that, the band’s leader, Tyler Shelton, forcefully expressed an unfiltered opinion about a metal scene that takes advantage of young, hardworking bands, adding that if gatekeepers “can’t monetize off it, they will keep you at the bottom of the ladder.” This weekend, Shelton & co. get to lead the charge on a stacked bill of the genre’s best, happening at Orpheum, the Bay area’s veritable cradle of metal.