Things got loud at the Slice, Friday, Aug. 12 in honour of one of the loudest guys in the room— Brent Sorge, who passed away last April.

A lot of friends were attendance to remember Sorge through music. A big poster of him was pasted on the Slice speakers.

I missed Queen of the Worms’ opening set, but frontman Tyler Bird would be rocking with Public Execution a little later in the night.

 Calgary band Geoff played a massively detuned set of loud alternative rock, punk and dissonant metal music.

 The band was tight and wore their influences on their chests. The frontman, wearing a Melvins T-shirt, crouched over his mic, bellowed out vocals. The guitarist pounded out power chords on a detuned Telecaster.

Public Execution, featuring some familiar faces including Tyler Bird and Jon Vornbrock described Sorge as “ a rock star without a band, so this is his band,” as they launched into a high energy, solid set of unstoppable and brutally loud, dissonant punk and alternative rock which also had elements of the Misfits.

Vornbrock broke a string in the first song, so the rest of the band improvised while he changed it.

They tore it up for the rest of the night as things got a little drunk out in a fitting tribute for a beloved member of  the Lethbridge music scene.

They brought Jesa Hill on stage to sing a sizzling version of Nomeansno’s “ Let’s Get Started Now.”

— By Richard Amery, L.A. Beat Editor