★★★★★
Listening to METZ's debut album is like taking a leap back in time to the late '80s/early '90s. Before every band in possession of a Big Muff pedal was labelled grunge, Sub Pop were busy documenting the scene in Seattle where a proliferation of bands were creating loud, abrasive rock music that straddled punk, garage and metal...
- www.musicomh.com
2013-04-02
★★★★★
The A.V. Club reviews a lot of records every week, but some things still slip through the cracks. Stuff We Missed looks back at notable releases from this year that we didn't review at their time of release. What, really, is the point of all this shit? The Canadian noise-punk trio Metz asks itself that question a lot throughout its self-titled debut. On "Headache," the nature of inescapable pain is plumbed for all its agonizing pathos. On "Nausea," the same is done for, well, nausea...
- www.avclub.com
2012-11-27
★★★★★
In this solipsistic cyberpunk present it's easy to miss the trees for the woods when assessing the current state of the musical climate. Things move at such velocity, while paradoxically going nowhere, that it's all too easy to say current guitar music is up shit creak sans paddle, as you know: "I haven't been bowled over by some undercooked grunge novelty for at least five minutes"...
- thequietus.com
2012-11-05
★★★★★
METZ said recently in an interview with Brooklyn Vegan that "Earplugs are recommended" when listening to their self-titled debut LP. I would go further - crash helmet, knee pads and a lifejacket are a bare minimum. Never mind ear protection, you'll be relieved to come out of the other side with all of your limbs intact. They're a band who've had to be patient, owing to a slow song writing process which has seen just a few 7" singles in the four years they've been together...
- www.noripcord.com
2012-11-05
★★★★★
In 2007, when Jon Whitney put out a CD compiling some self-released EPs of ascendant New York noise gazers A Place to Bury Strangers as their de facto debut, it was an act of passion. A friend and then-editor of mine at his invaluable and long-running Internet resource Brainwashed.com, Jon frequently evangelized about the band to me, citing their deafening live concerts and role in a musical legacy that stretches back beyond obvious touchpoints like My Bloody Valentine...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-10-22
★★★★★
If the Northwest folk-pop like Fleet Foxes and Poor Moon and Sera Cahoone Sub Pop has been cranking out recently, METZ is likely to be a great antidote for you. The Canadian band is as untethered a rock outfit as your likely to hear in 2012. Their eponymous debut for the record is a fierce blast of noise, a half hour of music that may run brief but is long on brash mood, blaring guitars, and industrial-sized drums...
- www.prefixmag.com
2012-10-18
★★★★★
For years, it seems that any music coming from Canada featuring guitars and a beat has been pushed under the lazy category of indie rock (Arcade Fire, Broken Social Scene, Metric), but METZ--Toronto's latest export--is here to shatter those perceptions about our friends to the north. On its self-titled debut, the post-punk trio remarkably bottles the sound of a live show; immediately shredding from the top of "Headache" 'til the very end. Brace yourself or get the hell out of the way.
- filtermagazine.com
2012-10-18
★★★★★
Metz are an exquisitely scuzzy garage rock band with an irreverent sense of humour. In the week that a certain resurrected post-rock behemoth unveiled its first record in ten years, it's hard not to be drawn to this raucous Toronto trio who hold no nostalgia for the time when 'you needed to have at least twelve members to even be considered a band in Canada. ... You'd go to a show and you might be the only person in the room who wasn't playing an instrument...
- drownedinsound.com
2012-10-15
★★★★★
There has been a sort-of nostalgia as of late for the underground music of the late '80s-early '90s with more indie rock-oriented bands, such as Yuck, leading the charge. But behind the somewhat glossy exterior of these bands that crib from the works of Dinosaur Jr. and Pavement is a darker underbelly; this where Metz come in. Metz are a three-piece post-hardcore band from Toronto who've been performing together since 2007...
- www.punknews.org
2012-10-15
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