No fretboard is safe when the Shred Fest metal package tour comes to Conduit

The metallurgical Shred Fest package tour of North America just kicked off a few days ago, and heads to Conduit this week for the only Florida date.

Featuring a gargantuan lineup of Obscura, Atheist, Origin, Decrepit Birth and Fractal Universe, it’s a delightful throwback to package tours of the 1990s that were more a dizzying précis on the state of the underground than a mere night out.

All involved are worthies, but we — as old people— are most excited to see Tampa’s Atheist hit the stage. The progressive-metal legends ripped up the rulebook for Florida death metal with their still-dizzying debut album Piece of Time in 1988, and have continued to gleefully confound expectations and eardrums in the years since.

This ain’t no punk, you punk.

5:30 p.m. Monday, April 28, Conduit, $27.

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This article appears in Apr 23-29, 2025.