Bring pearls to clutch and a sense of humor when Massachusetts death metal band Bonginator finds a place to land The Intergalactic Gorebong of Deathpot, its album of very stoned strain of walking dead rock.
Frontman Erik Thorstenn went to Berklee College of music for a year but grew up singing in operas and cathedral choirs; and before this outfit, he was in a Southern metalcore band called Mudfuck. “I’ve always said I’m more drawn to making people laugh than anything else. That’s how my art is,” he recently told Invisible Oranges.
The riffs and ridiculousness go on all night, too, since Bonginator’s tour mate, Frog Mallet, plays an equally heavy and irreverent brand of metal.
Tickets to see Bonginatior play Tampa Orpheum on Wednesday, Jan. 10 are still available and start at $15.
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Irreverent Boston death metal band Bonginator brings 'Intergalactic Gorebong' to Tampa
Frog Mallet opens at Orpheum this month.
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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 in August 2019. Past work can be seen at Suburban Apologist, Tampa Bay Times, Consequence of Sound and The...
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