Blessthefall Credit: Photo via blessthefall/Facebook
Ten years after initially releasing it, Blessthefall guitarist Elliott Gruenberg took the band’s album title Hollow Bodies a bit too literally.

On opening night of the band’s first tour since 2019—on which it performs the 11 tracks cover to cover—the guitarist broke his toe. But like Dave Grohl before him, no matter how fucked up a body part is, Gruenberg’s still going strong onstage.

The band also released a new single, “Wake The Dead” last spring, so perhaps this album-anniversary tour is just a way of stalling before a new album releases.

Blessthefall’s Tampa show at Orpheum on Wednesday, Aug. 23 is sold-out.

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This article appears in Aug 10-16, 2023.

Josh Bradley is Creative Loafing Tampa Bay's calendar editor. He started as a freelance music writer in 2020 at the age of 18, and after spending years covering, announcing, and previewing concerts in...