“METZ is 29 minutes of pure, artfully rendered chaos. A glimpse of what Nirvana would have sounded like had they recorded their follow-up to Bleach for ‘Touch and Go’ instead of ‘Geffen’.” (Pitchfork)

“Echoes of Sub Pop’s best-selling record, Nirvana’s Bleach, here.” (BBC Music)

Canada's METZ blazes through the entire 90's grunge and vintage indie-rock catalogues of fine folk like Nirvana, The Jesus Lizard, The Pixies, Mudhoney and Drive Like Jehu with their post-hardcore sludge-punk volume dial on 11! After years of toiling away in musty basements, small skate shops and bleak Canadian concert clubs, ‘Toronto’s loudest’ had established a rock solid live reputation. With the assistance of producers Graham Walsh (Holy Fuck) and Alex Bonenfant (Crystal Castles), the noisy trio have been wonderfully successful in squeezing their fierce, unpolished live sound onto debut album ‘METZ’. The legendary Sub Pop label - that has established a more than decent indie-rock/grunge reputation since bands like Nirvana, The Afghan Whigs, Soundgarden, Mudhoney and Dinosaur Jr in the 80's – is the one to offer a roof to these young saviours of unadulterated guitar power. 'Big shoes (preferably worn out All Stars!) to fill', I hear you thinking, but METZ is ready for it: “they’re cooler than QOTSA and fuckloads feistier than Foo Fighters ever were. With that in mind, the stupidest thing you could do is not turn up when METZ hit the UK next month…” rejoiced NME recently and the same goes for when they race through Belgium. Plenty of decibels packed into cutting edge songs with balls!

Blackup (b)
2013 will be the year in of Ghent's Blackup (with members of Fifty Foot Combo, The Andrew Surfers & The Feather)! Touring in April with Rocket From The Crypt & Night Marchers, a new album in sight (that will rock even more than post-punk gem /debut ‘Ease & Delight’), and handpicked by Metz to turn the place upside down as support in AB.