With a name like REZN, it’s easy to pigeonhole the band into the stoner-doom box, but the quartet is so much more.
The music-making friendship of Rob McWilliams and Phil Cangelosi began when they met in third grade while living in Leesburg, Virginia. And at this point, the two share"a total brotherly bond," McWilliams says.
While they both picked up instruments at age twelve, starting a legit band in what McWilliams calls a"desert for good venues and shows" was difficult. In an effort to get on local bills, they mimicked any popular band that played nearby, such as at Warped Tour. “There are not many places to play up there. At the time, we were probably fourteen, fifteen when we were trying to start a band, and there’s just nothing to do,” McWilliams recalls. “We just wanted to play.
While in college, the duo morphed into “this sloppy two-piece punk thing, where we would switch on drums and guitar halfway through the set," McWilliams continues."It was very loose — just riffs and drums." But it wasn’t until McWilliams and Cangelosi moved to Chicago in 2015 that they accidentally conjured the sound they’d been seeking. After they recruited percussionist Patrick Dunn and synth player Spencer Ouellette,“One day we were just riffing on some slow, heavy stuff without really knowing what we were doing, and it ended up being the song
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