Beloved Sub Pop recording artists, METZ have announced today that their forthcoming 2024 European and UK tour dates will be their last. The three members Alex Edkins, Hayden Menzies, Chris Slorach, have shared the following:

“Our upcoming EU/UK Tour will be our last. We’ve collectively decided to close this chapter of METZ. The band will be on “indefinite hiatus” while we take time to focus on other endeavors and enjoy more time at home with our families.

For the last 15+ years, we’ve dedicated 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 short of life-affirming. METZ has brought an immeasurable amount of joy to our lives and it’s our sincere hope it’s brought you some joy too. We are so grateful to all of you who’ve joined us along the way and have made this life a reality for the three of us.

We are incredibly proud of the body of work we’ve created and thankful for the lasting friendships and experiences that our music has afforded us. A special thank you to Sub Pop Records for always believing in us and allowing us to chart our own unconventional path. Sub Pop continues to be a glowing beacon of what is good in this deeply flawed industry, and we will always be grateful for their support and friendship. To work with people we consider family has been a true blessing.

Together, we’ve released 6 LPs, countless singles, played hundreds of shows across the globe, and have far exceeded any goals or ambitions we could’ve dreamt up as basement dwellers in 2009. It’s always been about the love of music and the beautiful mess that would seemingly manifest when we turned the amps up.

We’ve taken great pride in drawing outside the lines of convention and existing on our own terms. But no band is an island, and we never could’ve done a fraction of it without the inspiring and supportive network of family, friends, musicians, artists, labels, photographers, bookers, writers, journalists, independent record store owners, college radio DJ’s, and music fans that make this symbiotic wheel keep spinning.

If you’ve ever attended a METZ show, you know it was more than a band to us. We gave every ounce of ourselves to METZ, and it will be very hard to let it go. The intangible feeling of connection, community, and inclusivity that music creates has always been at the heart of what we do and will inevitably be what we miss the most. We will miss singing, screaming, sweating, and dancing with all of you.

We hope you join us for our final shows and help us celebrate something we will always hold dear.

Love and Peace
Alex, Chris, Hayden

Metz 2024 Tour Dates

Sat. Nov. 2nd – Rennes, FR – L’ Antipode
Sun. Nov. 3rd – La Rochelle, FR – La Sirene
Mon. Nov. 4th – Paris, FR – La Maroquinerie
Tue. Nov 5th – Clermont-Ferrand, FR – La Cooperative de Mai
Wed. Nov 6th – Lyon, FR – Le Transbordeur
Thu. Nov 7th – Zurich, CH – Bogen F
Sat. Nov 9th – Prague, CZ – Futurum Music Bar
Sun. Nov 10th – Budapest, HU – Turbina
Tue. Nov 12th – Krakow, PL – Klub Zascianek
Wed. Nov 13th – Warszawa, PL – Klub Hydrozagadka
Sat. Nov 16th – Berlin, DE – Hole 44
Mon. Nov 18th – Copenhagen, DK – Loppen
Tue. Nov 19th – Hamburg, DE – Hafenklang
Wed. Nov 20th – Amsterdam, NL – Toekomstmuziek
Thu. Nov 21st – Groningen, NL – Vera (NL)
Fri. Nov 22nd – Antwerp, BE – Trix
Sat. Nov 23rd – Lille, FR – L’Aeronef
Mon. Nov 25th – Birmingham, UK – Hare & Hound
Tue. Nov 26th – Leeds, UK – Brudenell Social Club
Wed. Nov 27th – Birkenhead, UK – Future Yard
Thu. Nov 28th – Bristol, UK – Strange Brew
Fri. Nov 29th – London, UK – Village Underground

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