Great Falls + Glassing

US noise rock/post-metal trio Great Falls – 

Great Falls was formed by vocalist/guitarist Demian Johnston and bassist Shane Mehling, a pair of musicians who previously played in Playing Enemy and Hemingway together. Based in Seattle, the group welcomed drummer Nickolis Parks (Gaytheist, Bastard Feast) into the fold last year.

If his name doesn’t immediately ring a bell, Demian was also a member of such bands as Undertow, Nineironspitfire, and Kiss It Goodbye. Fuck yes.

For over a decade, throughout the course of an extensive discography, Great Falls has been honing their sonic approach, a sound that has had them called “noise-rock,” “post-hardcore,” and “sludge” in the music press. I’m not sure what genre tag the trio prefers, but whatever you call what they’re doing, it’s intense without having to rely on the usual aural hallmarks most of the artists covered on No Echo lean on.

Post-everything trio Glassing are one of those bands, but they exist in a class of their own. Developing a sound that consistently skirts easy classification, Glassing’s fourth and newest album From the Other Side of the Mirror is a sharp-edged orgy of post-metal, post-hardcore, screamo, black metal and lush shoegaze.