Austin post-hardcore metallers GLASSING to release “Dire and Sulk” EP on Medication Time/Brutal Panda Records next week; watch “Sulk” video now!
Austin-based post-hardcore and post-metal unit GLASSING announce the release of their “Dire and Sulk” EP on August 26th through Medication Time Records and Brutal Panda Records, before they embark on an extensive US support tour with post-metal giants Pelican. Watch Glassing’s new video for “Sulk” above!
“Sky-scraping post-metal with doomy girth, black metal ferocity, and post-hardcore bite.” – Revolver
“Shrieking, blasting, immersive, cataclysmic nightmare fuel.” – Decibel Magazine
Austin’s GLASSING have spent the past half-decade crashing fractured, damaged noise rock into shimmering shoegaze and post-metal, coming up with songs that are equally as likely to inspire wide-eyed terror as crying in the middle of the pit.
Their third full-length, last year’s Twin Dream, saw the band striking their cleanest balance between those poles yet by pushing both to their extremes. It contained some of their most starkly beautiful songs to date, but it also cranked its heaviest passages to an even more feverish pitch.
It’s that latter mode that GLASSING taps into on “Dire” and “Sulk,” the two tunes that comprise a new 7-inch/cassingle on Medication Time and Brutal Panda Records. Perhaps that’s thanks to the infusion of fresh blood in the form of drummer Scott Osment (Deaf Club, Weak Flesh). Osment’s first recording with Glassing sees him pummeling the songs into terrifyingly heavy shape. Guitarist Cory Brim and vocalist/bassist Dustin Coffman match him for intensity, making “Dire/Sulk” the most direct, punishing Glassing release to date. (Words by Brad Sanders)
Catch Glassing on their upcoming US tour with Pelican:
8/26 Albuquerque, NM @ Fly Honey Warehouse
8/27 SLC, UT @ Crucial Fest
8/28 Denver, CO @ HQ
8/29 Kansas City, MO @ Farewell
8/30 Evansville, IN @ Lamasco
8/31 Nashville, TN @ DRKMTTR
9/1 Atlanta, GA @ 529
9/2 Richmond, VA @ Cobra Cabana
9/3 Long Island, NY @ Massapequa VFW
9/4 Providence @ Dusk
9/5 Brooklyn, NY @ St. Vitus
9/6 Pittsburgh, PA @ Collision
9/7 Cleveland, OH @ No Class
9/09 Grand Rapids, MI @ Pyramid Scheme
9/10 Indianapolis, IN @ Post. Fest
9/11 Milwaukee, WI @ X-Ray Cafe
9/12 Chicago, IL @ The Beat Kitchen
9/13 Bloomington, IL @ Nightshop
9/14 Memphis, TN @ Growlers
9/15 OKC, OK @ The Sanctuary
9/16 Denton @ Andy’s
9/17 Austin, TX @ Valhalla
GLASSING is Cory Brim – guitar, Dustin Coffman – vocals and bass, Scott Osment – drums
“Sulk” lyrics:
I’m here to fail you forever
Once all that’s good is leached and gone
Without a breath of hesitation
The sinking drag of our tether
A frail bond becomes the cost
To know the beauty in lossExtinguished eyes
Come commiserate
In agonies name
We writhe
WritheA covenant that’ll never change
Nothing is lost if nothings saved
Adoring face of devastation
In misery’s deathless devotion
Words are all I have left to hold on to
Let goThere’s a lesson
Thread the needle
Love is worthless
