Deviant Libation Credit: Photo by Dave Decker

The venue itself looks like a church of black metal, so it makes sense to see nearly a dozen of the state’s finest purveyors of the genre coming to Deviant Libation this weekend.

Promethean Horde—which features connections to another metal heavyweight, Amon—once-opened for Obituary at Brass Mug, but it gets to headline this one armed with a brand of melodic hard-rock that leans on its instruments as much as the vocals.

Tickets for the Bay of Fire Black Metal and Arts Festival on Saturday, Feb. 22 at Tampa’s Deviant Libation are still available and start at $15.

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This article appears in Feb 13-19, 2025.