About 17,000 people are waking up with sore necks this morning after headbanging along with Avenged Sevenfold last Sunday night at Tampa’s MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre. Falling In Reverse and Kim Dragon opened the show.

Kim Dragon plays MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre in Tampa, Florida on Sept. 17, 2023. Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Falling In Reverse plays MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre in Tampa, Florida on Sept. 17, 2023. Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Avenged Sevenfold plays MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre in Tampa, Florida on Sept. 17, 2023. Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Avenged Sevenfold plays MidFlorida Credit Union Amphitheatre in Tampa, Florida on Sept. 17, 2023. Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone
Credit: Photo by Phil DeSimone

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...