{"id":144730,"date":"2026-02-05T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144730\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T14:00:09","slug":"georgia-band-insomniac-brings-meditative-metal-to-tampa-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144730\/","title":{"rendered":"Georgia band Insomniac brings meditative metal to Tampa on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" data-attachment-id=\"351923\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/insomniac\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/INSOMNIAC--scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1707&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1707\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;13&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D800&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1761407352&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.066666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"INSOMNIAC\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Insomniac c. 2025 (L-R) Alex Avedissian, Amos Rifkin, Juan Garcia, Van Bassman&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/INSOMNIAC--scaled.jpg?fit=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/INSOMNIAC--scaled.jpg?fit=780%2C520&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/INSOMNIAC-.jpg\" alt=\"Four people stand evenly spaced in a horizontal line on a stone ledge overlooking a vast, calm body of water under an expansive, cloudy blue sky. They are all wearing dark, casual clothing, including t-shirts and jackets, with three of the four wearing sunglasses. The individual on the far left has a full beard and a leather vest with patches, while the individual second from the left has long wavy hair and camouflage pants.\" class=\"wp-image-351923\"  \/>Insomniac c. 2025 (L-R) Alex Avedissian, Amos Rifkin, Juan Garcia, Van Bassman Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insomniacvibes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Photo-Oct-25-2025-3-49-12-PM.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Insomniacvibes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Doom and death metal often features a lot of growling. Not so much in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insomniacvibes.com\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/www.insomniacvibes.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Insomniac<\/a> camp. The Georgia quartet plays a meditative, almost shoegazing style of sprawling metal which shouldn\u2019t be a surprise to anyone who picked up the band\u2019s debut on account of its title (Om Moksha Ritam, stylized in all-caps, and a mantra to align oneself with the universe).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/insomniacvibes.bandcamp.com\/album\/om-moksha-ritam\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Om Moksha Ritam by INSOMNIAC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/altnewsfoundation.org\/cl-tampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/tampa\/NewsletterSignup\/Page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAiECLjru3gB6BLYKOKFLfkVZsqFAgKIhAi467t4AegS2CjihS35FWb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599764?s=01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreativeLoafingTampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cltampabay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cltampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cltampabay.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/jan-29-feb-04\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan. 29 \u2013 Feb. 04<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead his 2016 intro letter\u00a0and disclosures from 2022 and 2021.\u00a0Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/rroa\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Ray Roa\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Insomniac c. 2025 (L-R) Alex Avedissian, Amos Rifkin, Juan Garcia, Van Bassman Credit: Insomniacvibes.com Doom and death metal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8839,28770,1864,135,1865,137,136],"class_list":["post-144730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-deviant-libation","tag-insomniac","tag-live-music-in-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-concerts","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}