Canadian Music Week announces METZ at Lee’s Palace

Canadian Music Week (CMW) has announced that METZ will be performing May 1 and 2 at Lee’s Palace. The show is part of an extensive international tour, which includes dates with Lightning Bolt, Protomartyr, and FIDLAR. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 20 here – cmw.net/music/hot-tickets and full tour dates available here.

The Toronto based noise-rock band recently premiered their first single Acetate lifted from the upcoming LP, ‘Metz II’ (Sub Pop, May 5) via YouTube below.

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What happens when a seemingly irresistible force meets an immovable object is a serviceable metaphor for the music METZ creates, both live and on record. METZ frontman Alex Edkins describes the upcoming album as a “much heavier, darker, and sloppier” affair, with many of its roughest edges and ugliest tones kept intact.

Written and recorded in 2014, after two years of constant touring behind their rightly adored self-titled debut, ‘II’ is METZ at their most true to form—as pure an expression of what they do as can currently be committed to tape. Produced with Graham Walsh and Alexandre Bonenfant engineering, the guitars are titanic, the drums ill-tempered, the vocals chilling, and the volume worrisome. Though they incorporated new instruments, (baritone guitar, tape loops, piano, synth, found sounds) and stretched out the arrangements, they still managed to the sound of an already monstrous band improving in both subtle and terrifying ways. The album is available for pre-order here.

Metz II track listing:
01 Acetate
02 The Swimmer
03 Spit You Out
04 Zzyzx
05 IOU
06 Landfill
07 Nervous System
08 Wait in Line
09 Eyes Peeled
10 Kicking a Can of Worms

For more information on Metz, visit metzztem.com.