METZ - Dry Up

What this video is

Released in June 2019 ahead of Sub Pop's Automat compilation (July 12, 2019), 'Dry Up' and its video represent a deliberate moment of self-reflection within METZ's relentlessly forward-moving career. The original track dates to 2009 — the band's earliest period — and its official video, assembled by frontman Alex Edkins from a decade of touring documentation, encapsulates the DIY underground punk ethos of…

Why it matters

METZ occupy a singular position in 2010s noise punk as a band that sustained uncompromising sonic abrasion while gaining mainstream independent credibility via Sub Pop. 'Dry Up' as a B-side-turned-official-video release represents the genre's relationship with archival self-mythology — bands…

The director

Alex Edkins is the guitarist and vocalist of Toronto-based noise rock trio METZ, formed in Ottawa in 2007. He is also credited on IMDB in music and composer roles, including Grand Theft Auto V (2013) and the METZ: Wasted video (2013). Outside METZ, Edkins…