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66 killer songs for your Halloween playlist

A frighteningly good set of super spooky tunes to fulfil all your Halloween listening needs

Metric live: leather-clad Canadians are still DIY and still vital at London Forum gig

The duct tape heart on the kick drum is still beating strong. Ever the DIY romantic, Emily Haines stuck it on there at the...

Metric – ‘Art Of Doubt’ review

A chart-topping and arena-touring headliner in their native Canada, but a more modest curiosity elsewhere, Metric have spent 20 years as a band apart....

Metric’s Emily Haines: ‘There’s been a surge in the awareness of sexism, but any working woman will tell you this is not new’

Metric singer Emily Haines has spoken of how their new album 'Art Of Doubt' "100% reflects the political mess" the world is in, and...

Watch the new video for Metric’s ‘Dark Saturday’

Metric have debuted the video for 'Dark Saturday', the first single to be taken from their new album. Watch it exclusively on NME.com After debuting...

Metric announce UK tour dates – O2 Priority Tickets

Canadian band will arrive in Britain for live dates in October

Metric announce new album ‘Pagans In Vegas’, unveil latest track ‘Cacades’

LP due out this September

Metric share first new song in three years – hear ‘The Shade’ now

The Canadian band say sixth album is 'coming soon'

Metric share new song ‘The Fatal Gift’ – listen

The band are currently working on new material to follow 2012's 'Synthetica'

Metric – ‘Synthetica’

Expectations of band fatigue, be gone. It appeared, for some time, that Metric had peaked with their second album, 2005’s ‘Live It Out,’ but...