Issue #382: Hurricane Season Alert | Temple Terrace Salutes Death Metal Icon | Big Summer Reveals | Morgue Manager Pleads Guilty

5/23/2025

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Ted Grellner
23 May

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— Forecast: 60% Chance of Above-Average Hurricane Season in 2025

— Birthplace of Death Metal: Morrisound Honored in Temple Terrace

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— Central Florida Unveils New Thrills, Animals, and Attractions for Summer 2025

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— Former Harvard Morgue Manager Pleads Guilty in Human Remains Trafficking Case

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Forecast: 60% Chance of Above-Average Hurricane Season in 2025

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued its 2025 Hurricane Season outlook, predicting a 60% chance of above-average activity. The forecast includes 13–19 named storms, with six to ten expected to become hurricanes. Among them, three to five may become major hurricanes.

While this outlook is slightly less intense than 2024's, NOAA cautions that “it only takes one storm” to cause serious impacts. Notably, NOAA is expanding its forecasting capabilities. The National Hurricane Center can now issue tropical cyclone advisories up to 72 hours in advance, an improvement over the previous 48-hour lead time.

New tools, including rip current risk maps and warnings, aim to enhance public safety.
Hurricane Season runs from June 1 to November 30.

“This is a call to action,” said NWS Director Ken Graham. “Prepare now—don't wait.”

Birthplace of Death Metal: Morrisound Honored in Temple Terrace

A new historical marker now stands at 12111 N. 56th St. in Temple Terrace, recognizing Morrisound Recording for its pivotal role in birthing extreme metal, especially death metal, during the 1980s and 1990s.

Founded by Tom and Jim Morris in 1981, Morrisound earned global fame for producing albums by bands like Savatage, Obituary, and Nasty Savage. Their sound engineering was revolutionary, allowing metal’s intense instrumentation to shine with clarity.

The Hillsborough County Historical Advisory Council unveiled the marker during a ceremony attended by musicians, fans, and the Morris brothers. A public celebration followed at Magnanimous Brewing, featuring metal-themed beers and memorabilia from the Tampa Bay Museum of Metal.

Today, Morrisound operates in Sulphur Springs, continuing to work across genres beyond metal.

“This recognition is long overdue,” said longtime fan David Allison. “To us, it was the baddest studio in the world.”

Here’s an astonishing—and often overlooked—fact about death metal:

Death metal played a surprising role in the development of modern music production software.

In the 1990s, the technical demands of recording death metal—especially its complex rhythms, rapid double bass drumming, and layered growled vocals—pushed engineers to innovate in ways that influenced early digital audio workstations (DAWs). Studios like Morrisound Recording had to develop custom mic setups, drum triggers, and early editing techniques that anticipated the non-linear editing tools found in software like Pro Tools and Cubase.

Some of the techniques used to tighten blast beats or separate dense instrument layers became foundational for how audio is digitally edited today—long before those tools were common in pop or film scoring.

In other words: death metal didn’t just break musical rules—it helped rewrite the rules of recording technology.

Central Florida Unveils New Thrills, Animals, and Attractions for Summer 2025

From Tampa Bay to Orlando, Central Florida’s biggest attractions are launching new rides and exhibits this summer:

  • Busch Gardens debuts Wild Oasis on June 6, a rainforest-themed kids’ land with new animal species, splash zones, and the Tree Top Drop ride. Phoenix Rising, their 14th coaster, opened in 2024.

  • MOSI’s new Digital Dome Theatre, the 2nd-largest planetarium in the U.S., features 8K space shows daily.

  • The Florida Aquarium is expanding with new touch zones and a future sea lion exhibit.

  • ZooTampa adds a giraffe feeding encounter and Stingray Shores.

  • Clearwater Marine Aquarium welcomes capybaras and immersive jellyfish displays.

  • Disney World launches the Starlight Parade, revamped Test Track, and new shows at Hollywood Studios.

  • SeaWorld’s Expedition Odyssey ride explores the Arctic.

  • Legoland Florida opens the SEA Life Florida Resort and hosts a LEGO festival.

Former Harvard Morgue Manager Pleads Guilty in Human Remains Trafficking Case

Cedric Lodge, 57, a former morgue manager at Harvard Medical School, has pleaded guilty to interstate transport of stolen human remains, according to federal prosecutors. Lodge admitted to taking body parts — including hands, feet, spines, skulls, and dissected heads — from cadavers donated for medical research and selling them between 2018 and March 2020.

The stolen remains were trafficked with the help of Lodge’s wife, Denise Lodge, and others as part of a nationwide black market. Denise reportedly handled online sales of dozens of body parts without the school’s knowledge or consent.

These cadavers were donated to Harvard for teaching and research, and are typically cremated and returned to families. Lodge now faces up to 10 years in federal prison.

Other co-defendants in the scheme have also entered guilty pleas as the case continues to unfold.

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