“We’ll miss singing, screaming, sweating, and dancing with all of you”
METZ have introduced they’ll be occurring an indefinite hiatus and that their upcoming EU and UK tour can be their final.
On Instagram immediately (October 10), the band – comprised of guitarist and vocalist Alex Edkins, bassist Chris Slorach and drummer Hayden Menzies – shared that that they had “collectively determined” to “shut this chapter of METZ” to “concentrate on different endeavours and luxuriate in extra time at dwelling with our households.”
The assertion learn: “For the final 15+ years, we’ve devoted our lives to this band and have had the immense privilege and pleasure of touring the globe and seeing the world. It has been nothing in need of life-affirming. METZ has introduced an immeasurable quantity of pleasure to our lives and it’s our honest hope it’s introduced you some pleasure too. We’re so grateful to all of you who’ve joined us alongside the best way and have made this life a actuality for the three of us.”
They went on to say: “Collectively, we’ve launched 6 LPs, numerous singles, performed a whole bunch of reveals throughout the globe, and have far exceeded any targets or ambitions we may’ve dreamt up as basement dwellers in 2009. It’s all the time been concerning the love of music and the gorgeous mess that may seemingly manifest once we turned the amps up.”
“For those who’ve ever attended a METZ present, you realize it was greater than a band to us. We gave each ounce of ourselves to METZ, and it is going to be very onerous to let it go,” they continued. “The intangible feeling of connection, group, and inclusivity that music creates has all the time been on the coronary heart of what we do and can inevitably be what we miss essentially the most. We’ll miss singing, screaming, sweating, and dancing with all of you.”
METZ launched their self-titled debut album in 2012. In a four-star assessment on the time, NME shared: “Metz ship the identical righteous anger that knowledgeable a lot of their favorite music within the early ’90s. The gamers may need modified however the issues stay the identical: these affected by youth unemployment and conservative authorities can discover salvation in hardcore. Metz are right here to give you redemption.”
The Toronto trio will wrap up their 12-year run with a UK and Europe tour in November. The band will kick off the farewell dates with a present in Rennes, France on November 2, earlier than heading to Prague, Budapest, Berlin, Copenhagen and extra. They’ll then head to the UK for a present in Birmingham on November 25, earlier than taking part in in Leeds, Birkenhead and Bristol. The tour will wrap up in London with a present at Village Underground on November 29.
Discover a full listing of tour dates under, and get any remaining tickets here.
METZ’s last tour dates are:
NOVEMBER
2 – L’Antipode, Rennes, FR
3 – La Sirène, La Rochelle, FR
4 – La Maroquinerie, Paris, FR
5 – La Coopérative de Mai, Clermont-Ferrand, FR
6 – Le Transbordeur, Lyon, FR
7 – Bogen F, Zurich, CH
9 – Futurum, Prague, CZ
10 – Turbina, Budapest, HU
12 – Klub Zascianek, Krakow, PL
13 – Klub Hydrozagadka, Warsaw, PL
16 – Hole44, Berlin, DE
18 – Loppen, Copenhagen, DK
19 – Hafenklang, Hamburg, DE
20 – Paradiso, Amsterdam, NL
21 – Vera, Groningen, NL
22 – Trix, Antwerp, BE
23 – L’Aéronef, Lille, FR
25 – Hare & Hounds, Birmingham, UK
26 – Brudenell Social Membership, Leeds, UK
27 – Future Yard, Birkenhead, UK
28 – Unusual Brew, Bristol, UK
29 – Village Underground, London, UK