Metz

STAGE TIMES: 

17:00 : JUNK.
17:50 : Mitski 
18:30 : FEHM
19:10 : Crows
19:50 : Seize the Chair
20:30 : BAD BREEDING
21:10 : Crushed Beaks
21:50 : Protomartyr
23:00 : METZ

 
METZ II is available now on CD / LP / DL worldwide from Sub Pop. The album has earned “Albums of the Year (so far)” notices from the likes of Entertainment Weekly, Rolling Stone, The AV Club, SPIN, Treble, and more. II also scored the band its highest chart position in the U.S. to date, entering at #98 / Billboard Top 200.  In Canada, the album debuted at #27 on the Top 200 albums chart.
 
At radio, II peaked at #8 on the CMJ Top 200 chart. The album also saw support with FMQB Alternative Specialty reporters, peaking at #1 on the albums chart, and its lead-off track “Acetate” at #2 on the singles chart.
 
METZ II is now available for purchase through the Sub Pop Mega Mart, iTunes, Amazon, and Bandcamp.
 
What people are saying about METZ II:
“Metz colors outside the lines — obliterates them, really.”  - New York Times

"The record twitches with the flying-off-the-rails urgency of the band's live shows as Metz sandblasts the industrial precision of their first album into a nastier, more shambolic attack." [Best Albums of 2015 (so far)] - Rolling Stone
 
“These mild-looking Canadians revive the golden age of early Nirvana and ’90s grunge with 10 walloping noise-rockers—but there are surprising hooks amid all the Sturm und Drang.”  [Best Albums of 2015 (so far)] - Entertainment Weekly
 
“The record is all killer, no filler.” - [Best Albums of 2015 (so far)] - AV Club
 
“II is looser and fuzzier than its predecessor… one of 2015's standout records.” [8.5 / 10] - MAGNET
 
“This isn't just purgative music hell-bent on bloodletting and catharsis; it's also carefully composed, with loving attention paid to fine detail and immaculate precision.” [“First Listen”] - NPR Music
 
“Creating a soundscape of claustrophobic, ravenous guitar riffs awash in feedback and distortion, with drums that never let you catch your breath. You'll feel it in your stomach as much as you hear it.” [First Play] - CBC Music
 
“Album of the Week” - Stereogum
 
“Hits like a concussion grenade, and you'll revel in the damage long after the room's been cleared.” [4/5]- Alternative Press 
 
“II, like the record that preceded it, is still a seasick and unyielding document of brutalist experimentation. But because the trio is willing to explore different avenues, there’s more corners to get lost in.” [8/10] - SPIN
 
“Album of the Week” - Treble
 
“A direct gut-punching affair.” [5/5] – DIY
 
“Bigger, faster, louder, stronger - in many ways ‘II’ is everything the band’s second record ought to be.” [8/10] - Loud & Quiet
 
“Bold, unsympathetic and brutally effective.” [8/10] – NME
 
“Raucous, filthy and hummable in equal measure.” [8/10] - Rock Sound
 
“A second volume of string-bending, amp-busting noise-punk…Awesome.” [4/5] - Time Out London
 
“II is what Metz do best: brazenly truculent hardcore.” - The Guardian
 
“Few bands anywhere do this sort of thing this well.” - The Quietus
 
“With II, Metz have done more than enough to cement themselves as the new kings of transgressive hard rock, and that's a crown which is going to be difficult for anyone to wrestle from them.” [8.5/10] - The Line of Best Fit 
 
“This album has achieved a seemingly impossible feat by sounding even more aggressive than the one that preceded it.” [8/10] - The 405
 
“The whole record is a dizzy, punk joy - taking itself far less seriously than most proper hardcore bands, whilst sounding twice as aggressive as any of them, and with better tunes.” [8/10] - Drowned in Sound
 
“II almost feels like Metz wanted to push the boundaries to see just how dark and dirty they could play while still carrying a tune and continuing to draw listeners in with unconventionally gripping arrangements - and good on them, they pulled it off!” [10/10] - Louder Than War