Hyperspace Metal Festival 2024 Brings Bombastic Metal Talent to Vancouver [Photos]

The Hyperspace Metal Festival is a three-day metal festival positioned as Canada’s premier power and melodic metal fest. Sadly, due to personal reasons, we were able to attend just the first day, but the opening night was delightful.

The fifth edition of the festival was held at the Rickshaw Theater in Vancouver from April 11th to 13th; with a total of 15 bands performing during the 3 days. The first night acts were performed by Skelator, Syryn, Tymo, Naitaka and Kayas.

Kayas was the first band to hop on the stage; the four-piece melodic death metal band from Vancouver put on a show for their local fans. They had a 6-song set opening with “The Winter Curse” from their 2019 EP Ascension, followed by “Deadwood” from the same EP. They continued with “For a Star,” “The Harvester,” “Reflections in the Water” and closed with “The Grand Magus.”

Naitaka, another BC band, came all the way from the Okanagan Valley to bring their trash metal to the Vancouverites. They open the set with a mix of “Malevolent Storm” and “Limestone Burial.” They continued with “The Missing,” “Vacant Cache,” “Forbidden Dimension, Ravenscrag,” and closed with “Emergency of the Skinwalker Part 1.”

Tymo, a band based out of Edmonton, Alberta, was the third act of the night. The fans started moshing to the rhythm of their mix of “Tymonicide” and “Sanity Clause.” They followed up with another mix between “Age of Deception” and “Estrogenocide,” continued their set with “The Art of a Maniac,” and closed with “Mars Attacks.” All of these songs were from their latest Album titled The Art of a Maniac.

Hyperspace Metalfest (Vancouver, BC) 2024 poster

Syryn was the co-main event. They travelled all the way from Calgary with the powerful vocals of their lead singer, Sloan Voxx. They had an eight-song-long set starting with “Surender.” They handed out Inflatable Pirate Sword to the fans to go along with the band’s theme and informed them that one of them had a sticker, and the person with that one would get a free band T-shirt. They continued with their set and performed “‘Til We Drown,” “Walk the Plank,” “Sink or Swim,” “Madness Becomes Me,” “Fistful of Daggers,” “Heads or Tails,” and closed with “Succubus Queen.”

To close the night, came to the stage Skelator, a band that is no stranger to the festival as they played on the same stage in 2019 for the second instalment of the Hyperspace Fest. Skelator has been playing for over 20 years, and still sounds fresh and crispy as the youth days. They hopped to the stage and Jason Conde-Houston, their vocalist, brought an actual sword to the stage. They performed “Birth of Steel,” “Iron Cast,” “Death to the False,” “Rhythm of the Chain,” “Stormbringer and Mournblade,” and “Heavy Metal Sacrifice.”

The metal community in Vancouver surely had an amazing weekend full of head bangs, mosh pits and Sign of the Horns with such a great lineup the organizers could enlist.

Hyperspace Music Festival Day 1 @ The Rickshaw Theatre in Vancouver, BC on April 11, 2024

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