Canadian noise rock group METZ will release new album ‘Up On Gravity Hill’ on April 12th.
The new album is the band’s first in four years, and will be released this Spring. Engineered alongside Seth Manchester – who has worked with Battles and The Body in the past – the record makes room for arrangements from Owen Pallett, and a guest performance from Amber Webber of Black Mountain.
In true METZ style they open on ambitious form – with not one, but two new singles.
’99’ is a direct, intense return, poking at the corporate greed that permeates North America and Europe. In opposition to this, ‘Entwined (Street Light Buzz)’ is about human connection, and how these can survive after death.
METZ frontman Alex Edkins says…
“These two songs couldn’t be more stylistically and thematically dissimilar. ‘Entwined (Street Light Buzz)’ is a song about the deep connection humans can foster with one another and how we carry people with us forever, even after death. ‘99’ is about the scourge of corporate greed and bottom-line thinking that runs rampant in modern society. Anything for a buck is the message being sent to younger generations.”
Tune in now.
Photo Credit: Vanessa Heins
