When Hayden Menzies of heavy, Toronto-based, power-trio Metz phones, he's just getting organised to head out and see Unknown Mortal Orchestra.
Expat Kiwi Ruban Nielson's band are playing up the street, and though musically Metz and UMO are hardly similar, Menzies is still a big fan.
"We played at the same festival as them a few months ago, in Roskilde, and we loved seeing them play. They were phenomenal! We actually rarely listen to really heavy music, because we're constantly hearing it when we're touring, but we all have musical families, and they're always encouraging us to listen to new things - old, new, anything, really."
And what attracted the trio to the brutal, slashing, ecstatic music they create is hard to say ("I don't know exactly why we play the way we do, or write the way we do, I honestly can't answer that"), but it certainly seems to be working for them.
Drummer Menzies met guitarist/vocalist Alex Edkins, and bassist Chris Slorach through mutual friends in the punk scene and the three just clicked. Those who've seen them perform frequently comment on their unity as a group, like one wild beast with three heads, so in synch they are.