Everybody’s favourite pirate themed metal band Syryn returned to the Slice to play for an enthusiastic and sweaty crowd, Saturday, Feb. 26.

 I missed  opening sets by local bands All Else Fails, Drearius and Vessel, who had everybody  warmed up, and their ears primed for devil horn throwing , huge  riffs, dual guitar solos and plenty of songs about seafaring and piracy  referencing New Wave Of British Heavy Metal along the lines of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest.

 I arrived just in time to snap a quick pre-show  photo with the audience.

 Sloan Voxx’s huge vocals  and charismatic stage presence powered a set  full of new music mostly from their latest album Heads or Tails.

 Guitarists Nick Berard and Kerry Peters supplied the big riffs and harmonized leads, while bassist Lyxx Rose locked in with drummer Bryan Campbell  to  lay the bedrock of  relentless rhythm.

 Just in case anybody wanted to sing along with Sloan’s operatic vocals, a  screen with aquatic visuals and  the lyrics played on a screen set on  the corner of the stage.

 “ Run For Your Life,” kicked off the high octane set featuring a lot of their 2022 album including “ Sink Or Swim, and “Surrender.”

 “ Fist Full of Daggers,” wound down the show of heavy riffs and hot leads.

They were called back for an encore of “ Unbreakable.”

— by Richard Amery, L.A.Beat editor