Metavari Bring ‘Absurda’ To Life With ‘Absurda, etc’ Livestream Show On 3/26

Nate Utesch has been quietly and consistently reshaping and reinventing his long-running music project Metavari since its inception as a post-rock outfit in the mid-2000s. What began as a group of musician friends filling stages across the country with full audio/visual, mind-expanding multimedia experiences became just two friends, Nate Utesch(keys, electronics, art direction) and Ty […]

Metavari : Absurda

Nate Utesch continues to evolve and move the sound of Metavari forward into new territory. Starting back in 2008 as a post-rock band with electronic flourishes strewn throughout, the band is now just Utesch working alone both with software, and increasingly hardware. He built cavernous worlds of electrical delights on records like Moonless and Symmetri, […]

Standing In The Cold With Strangers(RSD Chronicles Part Who Cares?)

I wasn’t going to do it today. I wasn’t going to get up at the crack of dawn on one of only two days where I can sleep past 4:30 am so I could go stand outside a strip mall and hope I get some rare music nuggets after all the vultures had pulled the […]

Absurda : Metavari’s Fire Walk With David Lynch

Nate Utesch has quickly been proving himself to be one of the most creative electronic composers working today. The evolution of his band Metavari as a once Midwest post-rock outfit that played stages at SXSW to the one-man studio project seems to have been a seamless one. Though I don’t think anyone pines to be […]

Metavari Returns On RSD 2019 With ‘Absurda’

Nate Utesch has slowly built this majestic musical world over the course of the past 10+ years in Metavari. What began as a full blown group with guys spread across darkened stages creating dreamy post-rock-ish sonic landscapes with films projected behind them has turned into what it was meant to be from the beginning: Nate […]