REZN Push Deeper Into the Dream on Cycles In The Infinite Dream, Share "Cloudfall"

Chicago’s REZN have never sounded content to replay doom’s obvious tropes. Since their Sargent House debut Burden landed last year they’ve been quietly rearranging heavy music’s furniture: less rusted-shock brutality, more layered harmonies and an appetite for texture that leans prog and psychedelia as much as sludge. Their new album, Cycles In The Infinite Dream, feels like the next logical move for a band interested in atmospheres more than badges.

The single “Cloudfall” makes that clear in the first riff. There are genuinely heavy moments here—the low-end crush is intact—but the song moves with a kind of off-kilter drift, a wooziness that keeps tugging you away from a straight mosh-pit read. Spencer Ouellette has quietly become the group’s secret weapon; his synth and sax parts have always added color, and on “Cloudfall” he brings lap steel into the fold, which changes the way the riffs bloom and decay. It’s still a heavy song, but it refuses to be only heavy.

Context matters. REZN got one of those Stereogum metal-column writeups last year that tends to mark a band as worthy of a wider conversation, and Burden did the rest of the work: it introduced them to listeners who expected doom and instead found something more restless. Cycles In The Infinite Dream sounds like a band doubling down on that restlessness. Where many DIY metal acts reflexively sharpen edges, REZN round them off, prioritizing weird counter-melodies and arrangements that unfold like short suites rather than three-minute punches.

“We moved towards the dream and subconscious state as a lyrical concept and melodic theme. The pseudo-waking state is a reflection of a second existence — something that you can flee to or be imprisoned by.”

That press-release line gets to the album’s center: REZN are explicitly mining liminal states. The language could have been vaporous, but on record the idea manifests in concrete ways—pacing, instrumental color, and song structure. There are tracks with titles that telegraph the concept—”Rites Of Passage,” “Aerial Birth,” “Escher”—and the music often behaves like those words, as if memory and recurrence are structural devices rather than lyrical afterthoughts.

The band enlisted Chris Owsiany and Tom Conway for the “Cloudfall” clip; it arrives as the single rolls out, and it’s positioned as a companion to the sound rather than an explanatory film. Cycles In The Infinite Dream drops 7/24 on Sargent House, which is notable: the label has a habit of stacking adventurous heavy acts together, and that catalog fit feels like more than convenience. It signals how REZN sit in a scene that rewards nuance over extremity.

The album’s nine-track sequence reads like a program: short openings and slow-burn middles that pay off not in one towering moment but in cumulative weight. Here is the full tracklist:

Rites Of Passage
Transient
Cloudfall
Aerial Birth
Devotion
The Vessel
Escher
Primal Thread
Terra Preta

They’re also taking the record to Europe this summer, joining a slate of festival and club dates that pair them with kindred acts. Notable stops include Hellfest and Rock For People, and several support slots with Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats, Elder, and All Them Witches. Here are the dates as announced:

6/12 – Budapest, Hungary @ Robot
6/13 – Hradec Králové, Czech Republic @ Rock For People
6/15 – Bologna, Italy @ Freakout Club
6/16 – Toulouse, France @ Le Rex (with Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats)
6/17 – Bordeaux, France @ Le Rocher de Palmer (with Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats)
6/19 – Clisson, France @ Hellfest
6/21 – Cologne, Germany @ Helios 37
6/22 – Groningen, Netherlands @ Vera (with Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats)
6/24 – Karlsruhe, Germany @ P8 (with Elder)
6/25 – Lucerne, Switzerland @ Sedel
6/26 – Manigod, France @ Namass Pamouss
6/27 – Paris, France @ Le Chinois
6/28 – Bourlon, France @ Rock In Bourlon
6/30 – Stuttgart, Germany @ LKA Longhorn (with All Them Witches)
7/01 – Salzburg, Austria @ Rockhouse
7/03 – Leipzig, Germany @ Parkbühne (with All Them Witches)

Cycles In The Infinite Dream won’t rewrite what heavy music is, but it nudges a corner of it in an interesting direction. REZN are part of a small cohort making doom an elastic thing, folding in instruments and compositional choices that suggest a broader vocabulary. If Burden felt like an introduction, this record insists the band are thinking about longevity and shape, not just volume.