Delightfully noisy 3-piece punk band from Toronto announce new album Automat, a collection of METZ non-album singles, B-sides and rarities, watch the video for the track "Pure Auto".

METZ, the widely-adored and delightfully noisy 3-piece punk band from Toronto (ON, CANADA), have been laying waste to stages around the globe for over 10 years. During that tumultuous chunk of time METZ, comprised of Alex Edkins, Hayden Menzies, and 

Chris Slorach, have cemented their reputation as one of the planet's

most exhilarating live acts and trusted providers of bombastic outsider

rock.

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Automat is a collection of METZ non-album singles, B-sides, and rarities dating back to 2009, available on LP for the first time, and including the band's long out-of-print early

(pre-Sub Pop) recordings. And Automat is a chronological trip through the

lesser known material of METZ. 

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Included here are the band’s first three 7” singles, recorded 2009-2010 and originally released by We Are Busy Bodies Records; a demo version of “Wet Blanket,” the explosive single from 2012’s METZ; two tracks from the limited-edition bonus single that accompanied preorders of METZ; “Can’t Understand,” originally released in 2013 by [adult swim]; and both tracks

from the band’s 2015 single on Three One G. 

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Consumers of the vinyl format of Automat will be rewarded with a bonus single that includes three additional tracks: a cover of Sparklehorse’s “Pig,” from a very limited 2012 Record Store Day split single originally released by Toronto’s Sonic Boom record shop; “I’m a Bug,” a cover of The Urinals’ art-punk classic, originally released on YouTube (not an actual record label) in 2014; and METZ’s previously unreleased rendition of Gary Numan’s “M.E.”

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All tracks on Automat have been lovingly remastered for maximum soundiness by Matthew Barnhart at Chicago Mastering Service.

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METZ are currently hard at work on their 4th full-length LP which will be released on Sub Pop.

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