METZ performed their ultimate present earlier than happening “indefinite hiatus” final night time in London – watch footage under.
The Toronto noise rockers introduced in October that their present UK tour could be their final, and that tour wrapped up in London’s EartH Hackney venue on Friday (November 29).
The band performed a 14-song set that took within the band’s total recording profession, with tracks from their 2012 self-titled debut album (‘Get Off’, ‘Headache’, ‘Moist Blanket’) all the best way as much as ‘Up On Gravity Hill’, which was launched in April this 12 months.
Try fan-captured footage from the raucous present right here:
METZ performed at EartH Hackney:
‘No Reservation / Love Comes Crashing’
‘Blind Youth Industrial Park’
‘Acetate’
‘Get Off’
‘Entwined (Road Gentle Buzz)’
‘Demolition Row’
‘Hail Taxi’
‘Gentle Your Means Residence’
‘Mess Of Wires’
‘The Swimmer’
‘99’
‘Headache’
‘A Boat To Drown In’
‘Moist Blanket’
On October 10, the band – comprised of guitarist and vocalist Alex Edkins, bassist Chris Slorach and drummer Hayden Menzies – shared that they’d “collectively determined” to “shut this chapter of METZ” to “deal with different endeavours and revel in extra time at house 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 tons of of reveals throughout the globe, and have far exceeded any objectives or ambitions we might’ve dreamt up as basement dwellers in 2009. It’s at all times been in regards to the love of music and the gorgeous mess that may seemingly manifest after we turned the amps up.”
“In case you’ve ever attended a METZ present, you already know it was greater than a band to us. We gave each ounce of ourselves to METZ, and it will likely be very exhausting to let it go,” they continued. “The intangible feeling of connection, group, and inclusivity that music creates has at all times been on the coronary heart of what we do and can inevitably be what we miss probably the most. We’ll miss singing, screaming, sweating, and dancing with all of you.”
In a four-star evaluate of their 2012 debut, NME wrote: “Metz ship the identical righteous anger that knowledgeable a lot of their favorite music within the early ’90s. The gamers might 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.”
