Album Review: Metz - II

It would’ve seemed pretty impossible for Metz to get any closer to the primal energy that adorned their 2012 debut, but II somehow ramps up the onslaught of noise and chugging punk ethic in a monster album.

There’s apparently a whole lot more instrumentation layered throughout, but it’s almost impossible to tell. What matters is the heady combination of guitar, bass and drums, the three-piece building something solid and regular out of a seemingly chaotic base. There’s a chunk of filler between the standout tracks that take grunge and punk influences and twist them into something definitively Metz.