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REZN’s ‘Cycles in the Infinite Dream’: Two Cent Review

After a decade together, Chicago psych-doom quartet REZN craft a second album for Sargent House, Cycles in the Infinite Dream, that’s as deadly serious in story as it is in execution.

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See Florida’s Face-Flattening Fearsome Foursome Florist Say Adios to Their Stomping Ground, Crowbar

Posted in Interviews, Videos with tags Crowbar, doom, Florist, Ripple Music, stoner rock on 07/27/2026 by Kurt Orzeck

One chapter ends and another one begins.

Florist – a band from Tampa, Florida – left desert-doom devourers speechless after releasing their first album, Contact, in 2023. They’ve been on a roll since then and just signed two weeks ago to Ripple Music, perhaps the fastest-growing heavy-metal record label on the planet. But while Florist’s prospects are bright – Ripple is reissuing their Adrift EP on August 21 – the band was bittersweet when The Bad Penny caught up with them on Friday.

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