Gruesome w/Virulence/RamthaSunday, Aug. 31. 7 p.m. $28.69. Orpheum, Tampa Credit: Photo by Ervin Novak
Last June at Raymond James Stadium, Metallica’s Kirk Kirk Hammett and Rob Trujillo paid homage to homegrown metal legend Death with a medley they worked on the week before while rehearsing in Indian Rocks Beach.

That’ll probably never happen again, but Gruesome a quartet dedicated to the early days of Death hits Tampa in support of a new album, Silent Echoes.

Tickets to see Gruesome play Tampa Orpheum on Sunday, Aug. 31 are still available and start at $28.69.

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This article appears in Aug 28 – Sep 3, 2025.

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...