Metric

Metric is a Canadian indie rock band from Toronto, Ontario. It formed in 1998 in New York, but is currently based in Toronto, Ontario (Canada).

Their first EP, Static Anonymity EP, produced by Jimmy Shaw, was released in 2002. Grow Up and Blow Away was supposed to follow under the Restless Records label, but it was never released due to a conflict with the record company. These demos nevertheless circulated on the Internet (a re-release of the album finally came out on 26 June 2007). At the end of the previous year, the band expanded and became complete by integrating two Americans: bassist Joshua Winstead and drummer Joules Scott-Key. The second album, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?, was released in 2003 in North America. Following the band's appearance in Olivier Assayas' film Clean, the album was released in France some time later. Live it Out was released on 4 October 2005 in Canada and the United States. Fantasies, an album from 2009, contains the new track Help I'm Alive.

Mike Shinoda (from the band Linkin Park) contacted the band about the song Gold Guns Girl (from the album Fantasies), which he felt was a perfect theme for his latest art exhibition, Glorious Excess (Dies). He asked the band if it would be possible for him to remix it for the occasion, a proposal the band accepted. This track is available for exclusive listening on Mike Shinoda's personal website. The track Gold Guns Girls is part of the soundtrack for the game FIFA 10, the soundtrack for the film Zombieland, and also as the opening and closing credits for Totally Spies, the movie, all three released in 2009. Emily Haines and James Shaw have also played with Broken Social Scene. Emily Haines has been featured on albums by the bands Stars, KC Accidentall, and Delerium. In 2007, Emily Haines launched a solo career with the album Knives Don't Have You Back. Emily Haines is the daughter of Canadian jazz poet Paul Haines (author notably of the libretto for Escalator over the Hill (Carla Bley, 1971)) and the sister of television journalist Avery Haines.

In 2010, Metric also participated in the soundtrack of two highly anticipated films: Twilight, Chapter III: Eclipse with the song Eclipse (All Yours) and Scott Pilgrim (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World) with the track Black Sheep. In 2012, they participated in the soundtrack of David Cronenberg's film Cosmopolis, in collaboration with Howard Shore. Their fifth album, Synthetica, was released on 12 June 2012. The track Speed the Collapse is notably part of the soundtrack for the video game FIFA 13.