From Tampa's Death Metal Throne to Nu-Metal Payback: Florida's Fingerprints on This Week's Biggest Metal Headlines

Some weeks the national metal news cycle feels like it's happening somewhere else entirely — Los Angeles, Gothenburg, wherever Maynard James Keenan is currently rehabbing a hip. But scratch the surface of this week's headlines and Florida's DNA is everywhere, from the death metal riffs being resurrected by an all-star supergroup to a power metal band that calls Tampa home dropping a brand new single. Let's dig in.