Born Free Pub & Grill at 110 E Waters Ave. in Tampa, Florida. Credit: Photo via bornfreepubandgrill/Facebook
After staging a sold-out rager in the room last Friday, promoter Locust Parade is back at Tampa biker bar Born Free for another heavy-hitter hardcore show.

This time it’s with Gainesville crusty grindcore hybrid Fulcrum, which breaks the mold on “Resuscitation”, a brutal, tempo-shifting two-and-a-half-minute highlight from its new album Heaven Is Violence.

Botch, Coalesce and Converge-loving Tampa band Dead Mirrors opens the show along with new St. Pete thrash band Ramtha, and noise-rock outfit Vacancy featuring Locust Parade’s Eliot Mayo on vocals.

Tickets to see Fulcrum play Born Free Pub & Grill in Tampa on Friday, April 14 are $10 at the door.

This article appears in Apr 6-12, 2023.

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...