Metz @ Generation Records

Metz; Dirty Old Women
@ Generation Records
New York, NY - December 18, 2012

I will not use this review to rant about today's teenagers and twenty year olds who speak like they live on Rodeo Drive and are devoid of authentic human emotions and didn't even go to this show because they were into the band. I will not use this review to rant about today's teenagers and twenty year olds who speak like they live on Rodeo Drive and are devoid of authentic human emotions and didn't even go to this show because they were into the band. I will not use this review to rant about today's teenagers and twenty year olds who speak like they live on Rodeo Drive and are devoid of authentic human emotions and didn't even go to this show because they were into the band. I will not use this review to rant about today's teenagers and twenty year olds who speak like they live on Rodeo Drive and are devoid of authentic human emotions and didn't even go to this show because they were into the band..

Somewhere in the nether regions of the hardest, loudest, purest sounds of rock n' roll, is the nexus of punk and metal. The three chord crunch of melody is there but is kicked with that extra special throaty monster and occasional sludge-down of metal. Metz technically fall on the garage side of things (more so than a similar band they recall - the once-mega-hyped Pissed Jeans) but damn there sure is a lot of metal going on. There's a lot of Husker Du too. It all adds up to something borderline excellent. These riffs are incredible. They are a fantastic live band. They are especially fantastically live in a basement surrounded by vinyl records. This is what it is all about and other cliches.

Dirty Old Women are much more metal. Garage metal? Is that a genre? It should be. There. It is. This band is in that genre. If you like this sort of thing, then this was good. Which is how I feel about most forms of metal.