Tampa, Florida will play host to the Florida Metal Fest on January 30th, 2016. The event will feature 11 bands on two stages, Deicide and Obituary are the first acts to be confirmed.

Tickets are on sale now at the Florida Metal Fest's official website here. Watch their official Facebook page for updates.

From his anti-god lyrics and Satanist labeling, Glen Benton has managed to lead Deicide through 11 albums over the past 25 years, and they have been a staple death metal band from the early years of the genre. Their latest album, In The Minds Of Evil, came out in late 2013 via Century Media.

For a preview of In The Minds Of Evil, fans can check out the video for "End The Wrath Of God":  

Obituary bassist Terry Butler recently checked into Matthew O'Shaughnessy's WVOX Metal Mayhem show in New York and discussed a wide berth of topics including his heralded days in Death, the untimely passing of Chuck Schuldiner.

"His sad succumbing just served to galvanize the band even more,” says Butler. “Chuck just simply wanted to play death metal. He lived for it."

Butler also reaches deep into himself and discusses his memories in Massacre, the latest Obituary album, Inked In blood, Obituary tour plans and much more during the ever candid and no-holds-barred live on air worldwide chat. During the interview, Butler also reveals more never before heard insight into the beginning days of the burgeoning Florida death metal scene, and gives a first hand look into the life and times of that now iconic period in US death metal.

"They were a killer band, they stuck to their roots, they were pioneers of the death metal scene,” comments Butler on Obituary.

The interview can be heard here.