Moisturizer Credit: Photo via moisturizer/Bandcamp
For those who want their ears to bleed as they enter 2023, Born Free welcomes Rhode Island grindcore outfit Moisturizer, ready to send local fans of speed metal and punk into the new year with one hell of an Interstellar Migraine.

Support on the bill includes Tampa metal trio Thorn, fresh off the release of a brutalizing nine-track, 10-minute new self-titled album.

Tickets to see Moisturizer with Thorn, Shining Wizard and Sloth at Tampa’s Born Free Pub & Grill on Friday, Dec. 30 are available at the door for $10.

This article appears in Dec 22-28, 2022.

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...