The Refused are dead, but long live one of the greatest Hardcore bands of all time! Soooooooo much ahead of their time. Check this video out! Watch it all!
Keep in mind that this was in 1998. 8 years ago. The New Noise is on my top 10 favorite songs list.
REFUSED are:
DENNIS LYXZÉN: vocals
DAVID SANDSTRÖM: drums
MAGNUS HÖGGREN: bass
JON BRÄNNSTRÖM: guitar
KRISTOFER STEEN: guitar
Heres the story of the last Refused show ever... which i DID NOT write!
After releasing 'The Shape of Punk To Come', Refused decided to do one final campaign in the United States. With tension in the band running high, everything finally collided only a few shows into the tour. The band decided to call it quits after a show in Atlanta, Georgia. Flights were booked back to Sweden, and the band set out towards the Reagan International Airport. Fred Ziomek, guitarist for tourmates Darkest Hour, had attended James Madison University, in nearby Harrisonburg, Virginia. He convinced the band to play one last show in his basement en route to National Airport. They agreed, and even though there were only around twelve hours to promote the show, there were still around four-hundred people in attendance.
The line-up was: Union of the Snake (Cornbread's joke glam-metal band), Darkest Hour, Frodus, and Refused.
The police kept coming by all night, and Tony Weinbender who had been put in charge of organizing everything, kept them at bay for a while. Then they came during Frodus and said "If we get another complaint and have to come back here, we're taking you to jail." Weinbender said he would shut the show down, but did not. A few songs into Refused's set, police entered the house and plowed through the throng of people to get to the basement. The band began playing what would be their final song, "Rather Be Dead", as the police forced their way through the crowd. The song reached the crescendo where Dennis would have screamed, "rather be alive". The plug was pulled (literally), and the band stopped playing. The audience kept screaming the refrain to the song, "rather be alive". The police were at a loss for what to do. Weinbender was taken to jail. He still maintains to this day that it was worth it.
Years later, members of the band would admit that they felt a sense of relief that the cops had shut the show down.
Now Dennis Lyxzen of the Refused has formed The (International) Noise Conspiracy, which also rock my world!
2 comments:
unrelated- did you ever listen to Avail? You would like them. Also a dead band, I think.
yeah i actualy saw them once in high school. I never had any of their cds or got into them much. But i should investigate it some more.
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