"It's kind of like having a group called Abstinence for the Sexually Anxious holding its convention in San Francisco"

Some say it’s ironic that a party that includes large numbers of religious conservatives would hold its convention in the city that fostered a musical genre known for album titles like “To Hell With God” and “Butchered At Birth.”…

Homegrown acts such as Hate Eternal and Morbid Angel are not booked for the plaza-filling concerts or high-dollar fundraisers that will keep conservative and evangelical Republicans occupied in the convention’s off hours.

That is not surprising for a style of music in which “brutal” is a compliment. Drummers play at breakneck speed, guitarists peel off dense, atonal riffs, and vocalists sing lyrics about gore and Satan in a low-pitched growl…

“Maybe I’m just a really boring human being, but I was not aware of Tampa being a death-metal capital,” said Tampa Bay Host Committee president Ken Jones. “Maybe had I known that, I could have used that to raise a few dollars.”