Glassing Play The Black Heart in London - Exclusive Content

Creature Records photographer Jake Moore captures some of the best moments at the Glassing’s show in London on 24th April.

Photo credit: Jake Moore

Glassing, the famed Austin, Texas-based power-trio, toured the UK/Europe this April, showcasing their inimitable palette of post-hardcore, black metal and soaring, and celestial shoegaze.

Born of Austin’s underground musical melting pot; Glassing’s 2017 debut album Light and Death erupted out of the famously genre-resistant scene. 35 minutes of harrowing blast beats, searing angular feedback and frontman/bassist Dustin Coffman’s sandpaper screams that set out to redefine the idea of heavy music to better reflect increasingly heavy times. 

Two subsequent full-length releases, 2019’s Spotted Horse and 2021’s Twin Dream, only dialled up this intensity as Glassing continued to push the envelope and cemented their position as an important new voice within the noise rock community. 2022 however, is when Glassing set the scene for what is to come. The introduction of formidable drummer Scott Osment (Deaf Club, Planet B) bolstered Coffman’s gut-punching basslines and inimitable howl and provided the perfect foil for guitarist Cory Brim’s razor-sharp playing style, as evidenced on the band’s most recent release, the eponymous two-track EP, Dire and Sulk.

More discordant, more distorted and somehow even angrier than before, Dire and Sulk was just the beginning - leading to 2024's acclaimed From the Other Side of the Mirror - Glassing proving that uncertain times call for decisive measures. Recorded across two years of intense fits and starts, affectionately nicknamed ‘Hell Weeks’ by the band, From the Other Side of the Mirror is a metaphysical foray into the fractured, warped impressions of ourselves that exist only in the minds of others.

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