METRIC the original score for the David Metric’s remarkable journey has seen Cronenberg film Cosmopolis. them collaborate and record with Lou Reed, perform with the Rolling Stones The story of Metric's unlikely path to and even entertain the Queen of success was covered at length by the England. media, from Billboard to Rolling Stone, the New York Times, the LA Times and In 2009, the band broke with even the Wall Street Journal, convention, turned away from the culminating in the band being industry establishment and self- invited to give a talk at Harvard released their 4th studio University where they discussed their album Fantasies, which went on to sell journey at the inaugural Rethink Music over 500,000 albums and millions of conference along with artists such singles worldwide, as Metric exploded as R.E.M. and iconic U2 manager Paul on to the international stage. McGuiness. Metric became the first band in Fantasies was followed by the band's history to have a Top 20 hit at US 5th studio album Synthetica (2012), commercial radio without the backing and more recently Pagans in of a label. Almost overnight, they Vegas (2015). The band is currently in found themselves headlining tours the studio working on their next around the world. Fantasies won album, expected out in 2018. a plethora of awards, including Group of the Year and Album of the Year at In the spring of 2016 Metric wrapped their native Juno Awards. Songs from the busiest tour schedule in its history that album were placed dozens of with a final cross-Canada leg called the times in Hollywood movies and top TV “Lights on the Horizon” tour. The last shows from Grey’s stop was at Vancouver's Thunderbird Anatomy to CSI, amongst many. arena, with a special appearance from doctor David Suzuki, whose The theme song Metric wrote for the foundation received a $1 donation for cult hit Scott Pilgrim vs. The every ticket sold on the tour through World featuring Michael Cera caught the Plus 1 program. The performance the eye of the legendary composer was the subject of a 24-camera shoot, Howard Shore who invited the band to captured for a concert collaborate with him on writing the film entitled Dreams So Real, expected official theme song and score music out in 2018. for the Twilight saga's blockbuster film Eclipse, for which the music was nominated for both Grammy and Oscar awards. The band later collaborated again with Shore to write .