The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for his exploration of the esoteric and little known history of the Burned Over District of western New York State.
He attended Gates-Chili High School before earning a BA (1978) and MLS (1979) at the State University of New York at Geneseo (where he studied four-dimensional geometry and quantum physics with Rudy Rucker.
[5] By direct transmission from Hakim Bey,[6] Metzger was authorized to found the Ziggurat Lodge of the Moorish Orthodox Church in 1993.
From 1999 until 2005, Metzger published over a hundred feature articles in Rochester’s City Newspaper as well as 55 installments of his Way Below Radar column.
Metzger has been a founding member of various avant garde musical groups, among them: Health and Beauty, the Fabulous Rectotem, Ziggurat Prison Ministries, and the Badenovs.