HE'S BOB SEGER: Bathe, which plays Planet Retro Records in St. Petersburg, Florida on January 16, 2018. Credit: Bathe

HE’S BOB SEGER: Bathe, which plays Planet Retro Records in St. Petersburg, Florida on January 16, 2018. Credit: Bathe

✔️ = Critic's Pick

✔️ Bathe w/Yashira/Gullwing Brutal. That’s a good way to describe the sound of South Carolina heavy music composer Alex Strickland, who mashes hardcore and metal together under the Bathe moniker. His South Carolina supergroup of sorts (members come from Palmetto State metal heavyweights Abacus, Burnt Brooks and Sein zum Tode) arrives with Jacksonville sludge-metal quartet Yashira in tow, and St. Pete post-rock quartet Gullwing opens this inexpensive ($6) record-shop show. (Planet Retro Records, St. Petersburg) INFO

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This article appears in Jan 11-18, 2018.

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...