REZN announce new album ‘Burden’
REZN have announced a new album!
Titled Burden, the upcoming album from the Chicago-based psychedelic doom/stoner metal band is the follow-up to last year’s Solace, and is scheduled to be released in June this year, via Sargent House.
The upcoming album was recorded simultaneously with their previous album Solace back in July 2021 at Earth Analog Studios in Tolono, IL by Matt Russell. Rather than release a double album, REZN divided the material into two separate records, each with its own distinct emotional timbre. Whereas Solace was meant to uplift and create a sense of narcotic dreaminess, Burden skews towards the themes of delirium, claustrophobia, and misery.
Alongside the announcement of the new album, the band have released a new music video for a new song lifted from the upcoming album; Chasm. The new song features a guest guitar solo courtesy of RUSSIAN CIRCLES’ Mike Sullivan.
Speaking about the new song, vocalist/guitarist Rob McWilliams says, “we wrote Chasm to depict the final phase of an existential descent, when you’re on the last few steps of the spiral staircase and realize there’s no going back. We wanted it to sound like walls closing in on all sides and you’re looking at the exit getting further and further away. Mike’s melodic finger-tapping style blurs the section into a kind of dizzying, infernal panic attack. In the final moment of the song you’re faced with the repetitive churning of a molten, fuzzed-out wall of sound that builds until the audio itself starts to singe and catch fire, then abruptly self destructs.”
Watch the official music video for Chasm here:
Also, you can view both the track list and artwork for the upcoming new album below:
Track List:
1. Indigo
2. Instinct
3. Descent of Sinuous Corridors
4. Bleak Patterns
5. Collapse
6. Soft Prey
7. Chasm
Burden is set for release on June 14th via Sargent House. Pre-orders are available now and can be purchased here.
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