REFUSED Announces Farewell North American Tour For 2025

Refused‘s future was in query after they appeared to have a “farewell” show lined up for this Spring in Sweden. Then Refused vocalist Dennis Lyxzén suffered a heart attack, the band backed out, and all was quiet. The excellent news is that Lyxzén is doing nicely today! The unhealthy information is that come 2025, Refused are fucking lifeless (once more).

Refused has introduced their 2025 farewell tour of North America with Quicksand as assist. Tickets are available here, dates are beneath, and you may learn drummer David Sandström‘s huge rationalization of why Refused is completed beneath that.

3/21 Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Paramount
3/23 Toronto, ON HISTORY
3/25 Chicago, IL Salt Shed
3/27 San Francisco, CA The Warfield
3/28 Los Angeles, CA Shrine Expo Corridor
3/29 Del Mar, CA The Sound
3/30 Phoenix, AZ Marquee Theatre
4/1 Denver, CO Ogden Theatre
4/2 Salt Lake Metropolis, UT Union Occasion Heart
4/4 Boise, ID Knitting Manufacturing unit
4/5 Seattle, WA The Showbox
4/7 Vancouver, BC Vogue Theatre
4/8 Portland, OR Revolution Corridor
4/10 Sacramento, CA Ace Of Spades

“We had been supposed to do that in Might. Roll out our modest farewell run, beginning with the Rosendal Backyard Get together in Stockholm after which doing just a few reveals right here and there earlier than calling it quits finish of 12 months. The rehearsals had been magnificent, the vibe was nice and two days earlier than the present we performed a secret present at Kulturhuset Femman in Uppsala. There have been no footage taken and it wasn’t filmed but it surely was an ideal present in entrance of perhaps 60 native scenesters. We frolicked afterwards, I had just a few beers and me and Dennis, nonetheless vegan and mainly straight edge, traded silly tales about bands we love. It was a effective night. Subsequent morning I get a name from Dennis‘ spouse and a few tumultuous hours later it is confirmed that he is had a coronary heart assault on the resort.

“We performed our first present in February 1992. That very same week George H.W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin held a press convention at Camp David to declare that the chilly struggle was over. That is how way back it was. It was so way back that I can not fairly keep in mind who we had been that wintry Saturday once we piled right into a automotive and drove as much as Luleå to play 4 Gorilla Biscuits songs, a Shelter track, an AC/DC track and I feel 3 authentic compositions to a crowd of 50- 60 blind drunk northerners. I had simply turned 17, had by no means travelled outdoors of Sweden and by the point the band broke up in 1998 we had performed over 500 reveals throughout Europe and the US. To say that the band modified our lives could be a gross understatement, and to say that we bought to know one another in these seven years is as nicely. A band that excursions turns into like a household, particularly once you do it in a van, with maps, scrambling to discover a squat in Halberstadt the place you had been alleged to have began taking part in an hour in the past. And household relations might be tough. So it was with us.

“That was partly why we wished to provide it one other shot in 2012. We had made a good splash within the nineties and the breakup had been very sudden and chaotic, there have been emotions and so they weren’t aired out and the entire thing had been such a shitshow that it was virtually inevitable that we might get again on the horse in some unspecified time in the future. We wished a do-over, to see what was nonetheless there, if something, and what may very well be made from it. There is a Neil Younger track known as ‘Buffalo Springfield Once more’ the place he sings:

“‘I would prefer to see these guys once more and provides it a shot
‘Perhaps now we will present the world what we bought
‘However I would similar to to play for the enjoyable we had’

“And that was mainly it. We gave it a number of photographs between 2012 and 2024. All of us have totally different takes on the way it went and what the legacy of the reformed band will probably be, however personally I felt we could not fairly agree on what we had been alleged to do musically, and we had been nonetheless combating that when the pandemic hit. Kristofer felt that he’d carried out what he wished to do and left the band in august of 2020 and though there was a delayed impact to the demise blow, a demise blow it was.

“So to start with of this 12 months we began planning to have one final huge hurrah, to make the top of the band a enjoyable, beneficiant, indulgent affair. And that is the way it felt after the primary present, it is the most effective we have ever sounded and we had been actually having fun with ourselves, tossing in outdated songs we have not performed because the nineties and even a Misfits cowl. After which catastrophe struck. I visited Dennis within the hospital the day after he was admitted and true to type he was not glad in regards to the hospital robe he was compelled to put on. Hooked as much as all these machines, unshaven with tousled hair, I swear the very first thing he stated was: (pointing to the robe) ‘I imply, this isn’t nice’. I assume they do not allow you to put on fits or Unfavorable Method t-shirts within the hospital.

“So on to the excellent news: Dennis is doing nice. He is one of many healthiest dudes I do know, he cannot sit nonetheless, workout routines loads and it follows that his recuperation could be swift. He is gotten glorious care and his physician has run all of the bodily checks on him and so they all point out he is making a full restoration. For sure, he is itching to get again on tour to play reveals and he even prompt we should always hold preliminary dates arrange for the late fall and winter, however we determined to postpone these reveals and as a substitute begin up within the spring. So yeah, that is the place we’re at. We’re coming to the US in March/April 2025 and we’re what else we will do with the remainder of the 12 months, all we all know is that we need to end again residence in Sweden on the finish of the 12 months. Tell us if there are songs you need us to play and we’ll give them a shot. Hope to see you on the market.”