#METZ A Boat to Drown In

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A Boat to Drown In by METZ, live at The Opera House in Toronto [Music video here]

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METZ - A Boat to Drown In

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Bandcamp Friday haul #2: "Light Your Way Home" by METZ featuring Amber Webber.

METZ reminds me a bit of Deftones, but that's probably lack of experience talking. I talk like that a lot. Anyway, METZ does a sort of slow, heavy, distorted rock that sometimes turns to drone. If that's your thing, check out their 2020 song "A Boat to Drown In".

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METZ - A Boat to Drown In (Live at the Opera House)

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One of the best closing tracks on an album.

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METZ, Spiritual Cramp, & Stuck Live Show Review: 12/16, Metro, Chicago

BY JORDAN MAINZER

METZ’ self-titled debut album came at a time when guitars re-entered indie rock in full-force. 2012 saw breakout albums from bands like Cloud Nothings, The Men, and Parquet Courts, a paradigm shift from the baroque pop of the 2000s towards something like it was during the heyday of the 90s. But similar to Attack on Memory, METZ was bleak, what seemed at the time like a pummeling expression of desolation after the 2008 financial crisis, akin to the waning optimism from the early Obama years. Ten years and three METZ albums later, the world has gotten worse, and the Toronto-via-Ottawa punk band has retained its hard edge. What better time to celebrate their first and arguably still their finest statement?

At the Metro on Friday, like every other night of their tour, METZ played their first album front to back. As the band walked onto the stage, drummer Hayden Menzies played the abrasive opening notes of “Headache” with the lights still off, remaining dim as guitarist and vocalist Alex Edkins’ siren-like lines began. Only when bassist Chris Slorach entered the fray did we see the band, and they were off to the races, burning through “Get Off”, “Sad Pricks”, and “Rats” at a breakneck pace. From the off-kilter instrumental of “Nausea” to the build of “Wet Blanket” and noisy, dynamic breakdown of “Wasted”, the band showed themselves to be, to quote one of their 2012 contemporaries, masters of their craft.

Including the encore, METZ had time for 5 additional songs, including two from their most recent album Atlas Vending (Sub Pop): “Blind Youth Industrial Park” and the swirling, epic closer “A Boat to Drown In”. II’s “Spit You Out”, a live highlight since it came out, was especially disorienting in its chaos in conjunction with the light show. And, to my pleasant surprise, the band did the motorik “Demolition Row”, released earlier this year as part of a split 7′’ with Adulkt Life. The show served as a reminder that METZ are capable of effectively delving into different subgenres but are still at their best when bashing you over the head with noise.

Opening for METZ were two more punk bands, albeit with different aesthetics. San Francisco’s Spiritual Cramp combined screamy, political post-punk with self-aware, self-deprecating, self-hating dance jams on tracks like “I Feel Bad Bein’ Me” and “The Erasure”. Vocalist Michael Bingham was filled with banter contrasting the bitter cold lack of pretension in Chicago with California’s sadsack sunniness. “You can’t tell if I’m being sarcastic,” he said to the crowd, following up with, “I can’t tell if I’m being sarcastic.” The vagueness of tone is certainly a feature of the band, the type to artfully sample vocals at the same time as featuring a barely-audible-but-theatrically-played tambourine on stage. When Bingham declared, “Fuck the cops, fuck the president, and fuck you, too,” you could sense a sneering sincerity, one that made the band ironically even more likeable.

And taking a victory lap were local heroes Stuck, a year removed from their most recent EP Content That Makes You Feel Good (Exploding In Sound), two years from their debut album Change Is Bad (born yesterday). As such, they played four (!) new, unreleased songs, including jagged set opener “Punisher” and the disco beat-laden “Freak Frequency”. Live, lead vocalist Greg Obis’ yelped personal and sociopolitical litanies echo the urgency of someone like Squid’s Ollie Judge, backed by the band’s gnarly rhythms and burning tempo changes. The jangling tremolo and rusted edges of a song like “Invisible Wall” encapsulated what the band does best: reel you in, but not let you get too comfortable.

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Live Footage: METZ Performs "Pulse" Live at Toronto's Opera House

Live Footage: METZ Performs "Pulse" Live at Toronto's Opera House @metztheband @subpop @subpoplicity @OPERAHOUSETO

Throughout the course of this site’s 11 year history, I’ve spilled copious amount of virtual ink covering Toronto-based punk trio and JOVM mainstays METZ. The JOVM mainstays’ fourth album, last year’s Atlas Vending found the band setting a goal for themselves and for the album before they set to work on it: they wanted to make a much more patient and honest album, an album that invited repeated…

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Track of the day // METZ - A Boat To Drown In

From the album Atlas Vending, out October 9th via Sub Pop.

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🎬 METZ: “A Boat to Drown In” 🐻

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💿 Atlas Vending via Sub Pop Records

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METZ : A BOAT TO DROWN IN

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Live Review: METZ at YES in Manchester 3 April 2022

Live Review: METZ at YES in Manchester 3 April 2022

Words: Andy Hughes I love timing an entrance perfectly, often looking back with fondness on a last minute ticket grab to see Parquet Courts at a packed out Gorilla in Manchester, walking in whilst they were in full swing, the crowd completely locked in. Sunday night at YES in Manchester and we were slightly earlier than that, catching Providence, Rhode Island quartet Psychic Graveyard at the…

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on a metz binge...

the ending!!! ah

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METZ - A Boat to Drown In

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METZ - A Boat to Drown In [OFFICIAL VIDEO] 2020

"A Boat to Drown In" by METZ from their album Atlas Vending (Release Date: 10/09/2020)