"Tortury" were later reworked as Metric songs, with the latter being renamed to "Torture Me". The reworked version of "Down" featured later on the 2001 EP Static Anonymity and "Torture Me" on the unreleased version of the album Grow Up and Blow Away. Scott-Key and Winstead have a side project, the band Bang Lime. The band released the album Best Friends in Love on August 14, 2007 on Last Gang Records. As of late August 2013, Haines was involved with FLEET4HEARme, a collaboration with Fleet Jewelry, and HearMe—the latter is an organization that aims to increase children's access to music programs in public schools. In support of the project, Haines explained: "I feel like anybody who wants to play an instrument should be able to." September 2015, Rudsak unveiled a leather jacket customized by Haines. The jacket is a classic black motor-cycle style with lyrics from "The Governess" on the back. Winstead released a solo album MMXX on June 3, 2016. In Fall 2016, Winstead performed tour dates in support of his album. Haines released her first solo record in 11 years, "Choir of the Mind", on September 5, 2017. A small North American tour took place in the winter of 2017 through venues hand picked by Haines, including Massey Hall in Toronto, Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles, and Chan Centre for the Performing Arts in Vancouver. Metric partnered with Plus 1 to support GRID Alternatives to bring accessible renewable energy technology to underserved communities. Music style and perspectives Metric's music style has been described as indie rock and alternative rock, with elements of new wave, post-punk revival, synthpop, and dance-rock. Sounds generated by synthesizers are prominent in their songs. Their sound evolved from the mellow/downtempo style of their early EPs and Grow Up and Blow Away album, to the new wave style of Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?, then more hard rock on Live It Out, then to the accessible indie rock of Fantasies, and to the more grandiose of Synthetica, and then the electronic of Pagans in Vegas, later fusing this with their gothic rock and new wave styles for Art of Doubt. Some of their songs (like "IOU", "Succexy", "Combat Baby", "Monster Hospital") include anti-war messages. The band also recorded many covers from artists like Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Pet Shop Boys, The Church, Death from Above 1979, Brenda Lee, Tom Waits, Neil Young,