Four people stand evenly spaced in a horizontal line on a stone ledge overlooking a vast, calm body of water under an expansive, cloudy blue sky. They are all wearing dark, casual clothing, including t-shirts and jackets, with three of the four wearing sunglasses. The individual on the far left has a full beard and a leather vest with patches, while the individual second from the left has long wavy hair and camouflage pants.
Insomniac c. 2025 (L-R) Alex Avedissian, Amos Rifkin, Juan Garcia, Van Bassman Credit: Insomniacvibes.com

Doom and death metal often features a lot of growling. Not so much in the Insomniac camp. The Georgia quartet plays a meditative, almost shoegazing style of sprawling metal which shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who picked up the band’s debut on account of its title (Om Moksha Ritam, stylized in all-caps, and a mantra to align oneself with the universe).

Tickets to see Insomniac play Deviant Libation in Tampa on Wednesday, Feb. 11 are still available for $15.

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This article appears in Jan. 29 – Feb. 04.

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...