We study the interplay between following types of special non-Kähler Hermitian metrics on compact complex manifolds (locally conformally Kähler, k-Gauduchon, balanced, and locally balanced) prove that a Kähler nilmanifold carrying balanced or left-invariant k-Gauduchon metric is necessarily torus. Combined with main result in [FV16], this leads to fact 2-step endowed whichever two metrics—balan...