REZN Release new single+video 'Collapse'
REZN
Release New Single & Video, “Collapse,”
New Album, Burden, Out 14th June 2024 via Sargent House
UK Tour Supporting Russian Circles This Winter
Chicago’s REZN - made of Rob McWilliams (vocals, guitar), Phil Cangelosi (bass), Patrick Dunn (drums), and Spencer Ouellette (synth/saxophone) - present a new single/video, “Collapse,” off of their forthcoming album, Burden, out 14th June 2024 via Sargent House. In conjunction, they announce new headlining tour dates in North America with support from experimental Americana band Mute Duo. “Collapse,” the follow-up to the “heavy, catchy, and trippy” (Brooklyn Vegan) “Chasm,” opens with smoky, Eastern guitar melodies and swirling synth ambience before a distorted wall of sound comes crashing down on the listener. The accompanying video, directed by Chris Owsiany, features the band and encapsulates the song’s mood. “It's one of the more progressive and dynamic tracks on the record because we wanted to explore as many different corners of the lucid dream/harsh reality dichotomy as we could in the same song,” says McWilliams. “Themes of hallucination are all over Burden and the music video totally nailed that feeling by incorporating the liminal and obscured aspects you encounter when losing touch with reality.”
Watch REZN’s Video for “Collapse" HERE or by clicking the image below.
Since their inception, REZN have mined the stark monochromatic depths of underground metal and fused them with the kaleidoscopic delights of psychedelia, prog rock, and shoegaze. With their latest album Burden, they plumb the deepest, bleakest trenches of their sound while retaining a lifeline into the cosmos. Staking a claim at the crossroads of the hazy dimensions of modern psych acts like Black Angels, the cavernous gloom and reverb-drenched guitar of bands like Spectral Voice, and the lurching low-end meditations of artists like OM, REZN have created Burden—an album of immense amp-worshipping weight and intoxicating instrumentation.
Whereas Solace was meant to uplift and create a sense of narcotic dreaminess, Burden skews towards the themes of delirium, claustrophobia, and misery. Musically, Burden favors riffs over atmosphere, percussion over ether, dissonance over beauty, but there is still an undeniable cohesion between it and its predecessor. The marriage of brute force and sublime textures has always been a key tactic in REZN’s approach—a duality that may explain their touring history with fellow synesthesia-inducing metallurgists Elder and Russian Circles—but the spectrum of the band’s mercurial temperaments has never felt as clearly defined and fully explored as it does on Burden.
This winter, REZN will tour in Europe with new label mates Russian Circles as well as performing at multiple festival. A full list of dates can be found below and tickets are on sale now.
REZN TOUR DATES
29th October 2024 - O2 Institute2 Birmingham
30th October, 2024 - Slay, Glasgow
31st October, 2024 - Limelight 2, Belfast
1st November 2024 - Button factory, Dublin
2nd November, 2024 - Damnation festival, Manchester
3rd November, 2024 - EartH, London
Pre-order Burden
Burden Tracklist
1. Indigo
2. Instinct
3. Descent of Sinuous Corridors
4. Bleak Patterns
5. Collapse
6. Soft Prey
7. Chasm
