{"id":358015,"date":"2026-07-30T20:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358015\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T20:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T20:29:12","slug":"voidrium-a-tampa-metal-band-obsessed-with-ancient-rome-plays-saturday-concert-with-pontifex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/358015\/","title":{"rendered":"Voidrium, a Tampa metal band obsessed with ancient Rome, plays Saturday concert with Pontifex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"551\" data-attachment-id=\"365557\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/voidriumfacebook-crop\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/VoidriumFacebook-crop.png?fit=996%2C703&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"996,703\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"VoidriumFacebook-crop\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Voidrium&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/VoidriumFacebook-crop.png?fit=780%2C551&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/VoidriumFacebook-crop.png\" alt=\"A black-and-white portrait photograph of the three members of Tampa black metal band Voidrium standing outdoors in front of the Ground Zero music venue. The three band members stand side-by-side wearing black metal corpse paint around their eyes. On the left, a member stands with hands on hips wearing a dark sleeveless graphic shirt. In the center, a member with a long braided beard stands with hands in his pockets wearing a sleeveless shirt. On the right, a member with long dark hair wears a studded denim vest over a graphic shirt. In the background, a hanging string light fixture and concert poster decorate the building wall under a large overhead sign reading &quot;GROUND ZERO.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-365557\"  \/>Voidrium Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=982295578119270&amp;set=pb.100090165102594.-2207520000&amp;type=3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Voidrium \/ Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tampa is the birthplace of death metal, but it likes to travel, too. Voidrium captures that spirit in its brand of black metal inspired by the heavy sounds in the Greek and Italian scene as well as the history and mythology of ancient Rome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Songs from an LP released in April (Aquae Inferis) take listeners to hell (\u201cPorta Avernus\u201d), plumbs the past (\u201cUmbrae Praeteritorum\u201d) and pays homage to the Roman goddess of burials (\u201cLibitina\u201d).<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Orlando\u2019s Pontifex, a metal band with symphonic and ambient tendencies, plays support along with Dan Castro\u2019s tough, blasphemous outfit Piss on Christ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/voidrium-pontifex-piss-on-christ-bullet-wounds-21557671\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/community.cltampa.com\/event\/voidrium-pontifex-piss-on-christ-bullet-wounds-21557671\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tickets to see Voidrium, Pontifex, Piss on Christ, and Bullet Wounds at Deviant Libation in Tampa on Saturday, Aug. 1 are still available and start at $10.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/voidrium.bandcamp.com\/album\/aquae-inferis\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aquae Inferis by Voidrium<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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 wp-block-paragraph\"><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\/jul-30-aug-05-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jul 30 \u2013 Aug 05, 2026<\/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":"Voidrium Credit: Voidrium \/ Facebook Tampa is the birthplace of death metal, but it likes to travel, too.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":358016,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[8839,1864,135,1865,137,136],"class_list":["post-358015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-deviant-libation","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\/358015","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=358015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}