“While the band challenge themselves, occasionally blindsiding fans too ("Caterpillar" is a demo that only features Edkins), there's also a reassuring aspect to the calm confidence of METZ here, though they find themselves in a lost world.”
“The Toronto-based trio Metz have incorporated harmony into their heavy sound on their third full-length. They shift away from all-out abrasion, adding color to their eruptions.”
“Three albums in, and everyone should know what they’re going to get from a METZ release by now. Balling together influences from across the ‘hard’ rock rainbow, they’ve perfected a squalling, melodic version of punk that critics tend to compare to The Jesus Lizard or mid-career Nirvana. However, punk can be a suffocating genre, and after the success of the band’s sophomore release ‘II” (which dou”
