Liverpudlian metalcore band Loathe is in Tampa on Tuesday

Not every Liverpudlian band takes inspiration from The Beatles, you know. Metalcore quartet Loathe—which plays Orpheum in Tampa on Tuesday, Dec. 6—recently had to cancel a barrage of dates in Europe and the U.K., in an effort to focus on completing its follow-up album to 2021’s The Things They Believe. The band must be finished, or close to it anyway, because a set of U.S. dates—which includes its second Tampa show this year—was announced not long after said cancellation.

This article appears in Dec 1-7, 2022.