Hollow Leg and Florist Announce East Coast Tour; Hitting Maryland Doom Fest and More
Floridian heavybringers Hollow Leg and Florist have paired up for an East Coast run surrounding their respective appearances at Maryland Doom Fest 2025 in Frederick, MD, this June. Hollow Leg are familiar enough around these parts, but I’ll confess I apparently whiffed on Florist‘s 2023 debut album, Contact, and the price of my ignorance is being blindsided by it now, a bright shove a bit manic like a spacebound Torche, if we want to keep it to FL, rooted in punk and aughts-era stoner idolatries but with an immediate point of view in the songwriting. It’s in my notes but they’ll probably have another record out before I can close a week with it. I’ve maintained all along I suck at this.
The bottom line is I dig it, I suppose, and the band will make a solid complement to Hollow Leg on the road. Hollow Leg of course released two EPs last year, Dust (review here) and Echoes (review here), that last I heard were to be compiled onto a single LP sometime in 2025 as may yet still be the plan. Between those two and the band’s by-now-not-insignificant back catalog, they can change up their setlist as much as they want, to lean nastier or more melodic, more aggressive or laid back and rolling, and accordingly, I’d expect these shows to kick ass. Maybe I’ll get lucky and Curse the Son will get added to that Norwich, CT, show.
From Hollow Leg via the PR wire:
Say Hollow Leg: “Hollow Leg and Florist have spent a lot of 2023/2024 playing shows together around Florida so when both bands were booked for this year’s Maryland Doom Fest it was a no brainer that we were gonna do a run together! Thanks to Jean Saiz for the awesome poster!”
Hollow Leg / Florist 2025 summer tour
June 12 -Orlando, FL @ wills pub
June 13- Atlanta, GA @ 529
June 14- Asheville, NC @ sly grog lounge (Hell Chere Fest)
June 15-Nashville TN @ the Basement
June 16- Louisville, KY @ MagBar
June 17-Youngstown, OH @ Westside bowl
June 18- Syracuse, NY @ the jugg
June 19-Norwich CT @ Strange Brew
June 20-Brooklyn NY @ Goldsounds
June 21-Fredrick, MD-Doomfest (HL only)
June 22-Fredrick, MD Doomfest (Florist only)
June 23- Wilmington, NC @ Reggie’s
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