Exclusive: Flourishing Premiere "The Prospects of Rejection

New York's Flourishing are premiering their new song, "The Prospect of Rejection," exclusively at GuitarWorld.com. The track, which comes from the band's forthcoming new album, The Sum of All Fossils, can be streamed below.

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Josh Hart is a former web producer and staff writer for Guitar World and Guitar Aficionado magazines (2010–2012). He has since pursued writing fiction under various pseudonyms while exploring the technical underpinnings of journalism, now serving as a senior software engineer for The Seattle Times.

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