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Influential Swedish hardcore punk band\u00a0Refused<\/strong> has announced they will be splitting up following a farewell tour next year.<\/p>\n

In a statement from Refused<\/strong> drummer David Sandstr\u00f6m, he explains that the band had planned to call it quits at the end of this year, and were set to embark on a farewell run. However, shortly before a show in Stockholm in June, vocalist Dennis Lyxz\u00e9n suffered a “massive” heart attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With Lyxz\u00e9n now on the road to recovery,\u00a0Refused<\/strong> will begin touring in the Spring. They’ll be starting with North American dates, with support coming from\u00a0Quicksand<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Sandstr\u00f6m states the band are\u00a0“looking at what else we can do with the rest of the year”<\/em> with the aim to play their final show in Sweden in late 2025.<\/p>\n

Here’s David Sandstr\u00f6m full message on\u00a0Refused<\/strong>‘s split:<\/h2>\n

\u201cWe were supposed to do this in May. Roll out our modest farewell run, starting with the Rosendal Garden Party in Stockholm and then doing a few shows here and there before calling it quits end of year. The rehearsals had been magnificent, the vibe was great and two days before the show we played a secret show at Kulturhuset Femman in Uppsala. There were no pictures taken and it wasn\u2019t filmed but it was a great show in front of maybe 60 local scenesters. We hung out afterwards, I had a few beers and me and Dennis, still vegan and basically straight edge, traded stupid stories about bands we love. It was a fine evening. Next morning I get a call from Dennis\u2019 wife and a couple of tumultuous hours later it\u2019s confirmed that he\u2019s had a heart attack at the hotel.<\/em><\/p>\n

We played our first show in February 1992. That same week George H.W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin held a press conference at Camp David to declare that the cold war was over. That\u2019s how long ago it was. It was so long ago that I can\u2019t quite remember who we were that wintry Saturday when we piled into a car and drove up to Lule\u00e5 to play 4 Gorilla Biscuits songs, a Shelter song, an AC\\DC song and I think 3 original compositions to a crowd of 50-60 blind drunk northerners. I had just turned 17, had never travelled outside of Sweden and by the time the band broke up in 1998 we had played over 500 shows all over Europe and the US. To say that the band changed our lives would be a gross understatement, and to say that we got to know each other in those seven years is as well. A band that tours becomes like a family, especially when you do it in a van, with maps, scrambling to find a squat in Halberstadt where you were supposed to have started playing an hour ago. And family relations can be difficult. So it was with us.<\/em><\/p>\n

That was partly why we wanted to give it another shot in 2012. We had made a decent splash in the nineties and the breakup had been very sudden and chaotic, there were feelings and they were not aired out and the whole thing had been such a shitshow that it was almost inevitable that we\u2019d get back on the horse at some point. We wanted a do-over, to see what was still there, if anything, and what could be made of it. There\u2019s a Neil Young song called \u201cBuffalo Springfield Again\u201d where he sings: <\/em>
\n\u201cI\u2019d like to see those guys again and give it a shot. Maybe now we can show the world what we got<\/em>
\nBut I’d just like to play for the fun we had\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n

And that was basically it. We gave it several shots between 2012 and 2024. We all have different takes on how it went and what the legacy of the reformed band will be, but personally I felt we couldn\u2019t quite agree on what we were supposed to do musically, and we were still struggling with that when the pandemic hit. Kristofer (Steen – guitarist) felt that he\u2019d done what he wanted to do and left the band in August of 2020 and although there was a delayed effect to the death blow, a death blow it was.<\/em><\/p>\n

So in the beginning of this year we started making plans to have one last big hurrah, to make the end of the band a fun, generous, indulgent affair. And that\u2019s how it felt after the first show, it\u2019s the best we\u2019ve ever sounded and we were really enjoying ourselves, tossing in old songs we haven\u2019t played since the nineties and even a Misfits cover. And then disaster struck. I visited Dennis in the hospital the day after he was admitted and true to form he was not happy about the hospital gown he was forced to wear. Hooked up to all these machines, unshaven with tousled hair, I swear the first thing he said was: (pointing to the gown) \u201cI mean, this is not great\u201d. I guess they don\u2019t let you wear suits or Negative Approach t-shirts in the hospital.<\/em><\/p>\n

So on to the good news: Dennis is doing great. He\u2019s one of the healthiest dudes I know, he can\u2019t sit still, exercises a lot and it follows that his recuperation would be swift. He\u2019s gotten excellent care and his doctor has run all the physical tests on him and they all indicate he\u2019s making a full recovery. Needless to say, he\u2019s itching to get back on tour to play shows and he even suggested we should keep preliminary dates set up for the late fall and winter, but we decided to postpone those shows and instead start up in the spring. So yeah, that\u2019s where we\u2019re at. We\u2019re coming to the US in March\/April 2025 and we\u2019re looking at what else we can do with the rest of the year, all we know is that we want to finish back home in Sweden at the end of the year. Let us know if there are songs you want us to play and we\u2019ll give them a shot. Hope to see you out there.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Refused Announce ‘<\/em>The Shape Of Punk To Come’<\/em> 25th Anniversary Release<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Although\u00a0Refused<\/strong> won’t be touring until next year, that hasn’t stopped them from celebrating 25 years of their landmark album – ‘The Shape Of Punk To Come’.\u00a0<\/em>November 8th will see them release a limited collector\u2019s edition version of the album. It’ll include a 3 x LP version of the album on exclusive coloured vinyl, and will include unreleased demos and rare alternate versions of songs.<\/p>\n

A 5 x LP variant will include a 12-track tribute album titled ‘The Shape Of Punk To Come Obliterated: A chimerical bombination in 12 bursts’<\/em>. It will feature covers and remixes from the likes of Quicksand<\/strong>, Zulu<\/strong>, Gel<\/strong>, IDLES<\/strong>, Touch\u00e9 Amor\u00e9<\/strong>,\u00a0Brutus,<\/strong> and more.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe Shape of Punk to Come (25th Anniversary Edition)<\/b>
\nSide A
\nWorms of the Senses \/ Faculties of the Skull
\nLiberation Frequency
\nThe Deadly Rhythm
\nSide B
\nSummerholidays Vs. Punkroutine
\nBruitist Pome #5
\nNew Noise
\nSide C
\nThe Refused Party Program \u2013
\nProtest Song \u201968
\nRefused Are Fucking Dead
\nSide D
\nThe Shape of Punk to Come
\nTannh\u00e4user \/ Deriv\u00e8
\nThe Apollo Programme Was a Hoax
\nSide E
\nSummer Holidays (instrumental demo)
\nRefused Are Fucking Dead (instrumental demo)
\nThe Shape Of Punk To Come (instrumental demo)
\nTannhauser Derive (instrumental demo)
\nSide F
\nNew Noise (Straight Edge As Fuck compilation)
\nWorms of the Senses (rehearsal tape)
\nThe Deadly Rhythm (rehearsal tape)
\nBlind Date (rehearsal tape)
\nNew Noise (live)The Shape Of Punk To Come Obliterated: A chimerical bombination in 12 bursts<\/b>
\nSide A
\nGel – Worms Of The Senses \/ Faculties Of The Skull
\nQuicksand – The Liberation Frequency
\nBrutus – The Deadly Rhythm
\nSnapcase – Summer Holidays Vs. Punkroutine
\nSide B
\nIdles – New Noise (remix)
\nHo99o9 – New Noise
\nFucked Up – Refused Party Program
\nZulu – Protest Song \u201968
\nCold Cave – Refused Are Fucking Dead
\nSide C
\nIGORR – The Shape Of Punk To Come
\nCult Of Luna – Tannh\u00e4user \/ Derive
\nTouche Amore – The Apollo Programme Was A Hoax
\nSide D \u2013 Etching<\/p>\n

Pre-orders can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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