I have witnessed firsthand how badly listening to Glassing can fuck up the human face. Just before the Texan trio played Arctangent festival in Bristol last year, I dragged a friend with me to the tent they were playing, desperate to see his reaction to their system-shocking extreme metal. When he looked over midway through Defacer, his expression as wildly scrunched-up as Jim Carrey playing The Grinch, it reaffirmed to me how incredible this band are.
Co-founded by bassist/vocalist Dustin Coffman and guitarist Cory Brim in Austin in 2016, Glassing are one of the few new metal acts you can’t easily categorise. Their influences include everything from Neurosis to The Cure and Planes Mistaken For Stars. And, from that maelstrom of discordant sounds, they pull a fury equally rooted in black metal, sludge, post-rock and shoegaze.
