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REZN 
Patrick Dunn (drums), Rob McWilliams (vocals, guitar), Phil Cangelosi (bass), Spencer Ouellette (synth/saxophone)

photo credit Araña Schulke

NEWS / PRESS

    May 6, 2026

    REZN Announce New Album 'Cycles in the Infinite Dream'

    REZN – the Chicago-based band of Rob McWilliams (vocals, guitar), Phil Cangelosi (bass), Patrick Dunn (drums), and Spencer Ouellette (synth/saxophone/lap steel) – have announced their new album, Cycles in the Infinite Dream, out July 24th via Sargent House, and…

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    Nov 12, 2024

    REZN Added to 2025 European Festivals

    Thank you to everyone who came out to see the Russian Circles x REZN tour. REZN are already booked to return to Europe for Krach am Bach and Brutal Assault fests in 2025.

    Be on the lookout for more dates…

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    Sep 24, 2024

    Ableton Feature: REZN Shoegazing Into the Metal Abyss

    "Electronic musicians have tackled a problem that has long stumped many bands - how to navigate the chasm of energy that yawns in between songs. DJs and electronic acts focus on smooth, if not seamless transitions between songs. Bands however…

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    Jun 13, 2024

    FLOOD MAGAZINE: REZN’S 'BURDEN' INFLUENCES PLAYLIST

    "The Chicago doom-metal quartet shares how krautrock, gothic new age, psychedelic prog, and more informed their follow-up to last year’s Solace LP.

    Even as a resident music journalist of Chicago for most of the past decade the city never quite…

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    Jun 11, 2024

    REZN RELEASE FINAL TRACK BEFORE FULL ALBUM 'BURDEN' OUT 6/14

    This Friday (6/14), Chicago’s REZN will release their new album, Burden, via Sargent House. Today, they present “Indigo,” the album opener. “Indigo” finds the rhythm section of bassist Phil Cangelosi and drummer Patrick Dunn churning out an authoritative Godflesh-like…

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    May 31, 2024

    STEREOGUM: 'REZN'S BURDEN IS OUR REWARD'

    "Some bands build worlds. REZN hope you explore their universe. “We do leave quite a bit up for interpretation,” bassist Phil Cangelosi, accompanied by the three other members of the Chicago quartet, says over Zoom. “We don’t have anything that’s…

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    May 9, 2024

    REZN RELEASE NEW TRACK & VIDEO "COLLAPSE"

    Chicago’s REZN have released a new single/video, “Collapse,” off of their forthcoming album, Burden, out June 14th via Sargent House. In conjunction, they announce new headlining tour dates in North America with support from experimental Americana…

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    Cycles in the Infinite Dream

    Cycles in the Infinite Dream

    July 24, 2026

    Cycles in the Infinite Dream Tracklist
    1. Rites of Passage
    2. Transient
    3. Cloudfall
    4. Aerial Birth
    5. Devotion
    6. The Vessel
    7. Escher
    8. Primal Thread
    9. Terra Preta

    REZN ‘Cycles in the Infinite Dream’ 

    Over the last decade, Chicago quartet REZN have carved out a unique place in the landscape of heavy music, chiseling away at the crude formations of the topography, mining the most concentrated metallic ore from the dirt, and shaping it all into something monumental, imposing, and divine. While REZN has always fused seismic riffs with effortless beauty and grandeur, their shifting strategies for wielding that polarity have involved varied compositional and stylistic decisions, most notably the light-and-dark contrast of companion albums Solace (2023) and Burden (2024). But with their newest full-length offering, Cycles in the Infinite Dream, REZN masterfully harness the oppressive weight of their full sonic armory to celestial melodies and sublime synesthesia-inducing atmospherics in a manner so seamless it feels otherworldly, as if occupying a liminal space between two realities.

    While REZN traffic in the unbridled realms of metal and untethered reaches of psychedelia, their latest release showcases a band working with discipline and intention, even when those intentions are rendered to be purposefully cryptic. As the album title implies, Cycles in the Infinite Dream explores the nexus of our waking and nocturnal worlds. “We moved towards the dream and subconscious state as a lyrical concept and melodic theme,” the band explains. “The pseudo-waking state is a reflection of a second existence—something that you can flee to or be imprisoned by.” Much like the subconscious-guided work of David Lynch, Cycles in the Infinite Dream exists as parallax between the artist and the audience, creating an obscured and distorted space that is both familiar and alien, like a corridor into our past where we recognize our surroundings but somehow still feel lost within its warped geometry.

    One of REZN’s most understated assets lies within guitarist/singer Rob McWilliams’ vocal approach. Eschewing heavy music’s guttural growls or operatic gymnastics, McWilliams has been steadfast in his soaring, delay-drenched melodies, providing a beguiling path through even the most primal and pummeling moments in the band’s repertoire. Like a piper calling you to join him, McWilliams forges through the darkness yet remains cloaked in mystery. Indeed, the voice serves more as an instrument and a guidepost than as a vehicle for poetry or a portrait of a personality. “Most of the instrumentation was created with vocal melodies in mind,” the band clarifies. “We made a lot of choices that were dictated by the vocals, sometimes rewriting songs completely if the vocal melodies demanded it.” That said, the band’s instrumentation on the album is still in the foreground and is an exceptionally mesmerizing presence throughout.

    REZN have long operated—and thrived—in the subterranean realm of music heads who crave the aural equivalent of altered states. And with Cycles in the Infinite Dream, they have created their most psychotropic work to date.

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    Burden

    June 14, 2024

    Burden Tracklist
    1. Indigo
    2. Instinct
    3. Descent of Sinuous Corridors
    4. Bleak Patterns
    5. Collapse
    6. Soft Prey
    7. Chasm

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    SOLACE

    MARCH 8, 2023

    Solace Tracklist 
    1. Allured by Feverish Visions 
    2. Possession 
    3. Reversal
    4. Stasis
    5. Faded and Fleeting
    6. Webbed Roots
     

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