REFUSED’s DENNIS LYXZÉN Discusses His Recent Heart Attack & Current Health

Refused has had one hell of a yr. The band their “final festival” show at Stockholm’s Rosendal Backyard Celebration again in March, however sadly by no means bought to play it resulting from vocalist Dennis Lyxzén suffering a heart attack.

Lyxzén has been doing properly – properly sufficient to announce Refused’s 2025 farewell tour – however nonetheless, coronary heart assaults aren’t any joke. In a current episode of his personal Dennis Deep Cuts video sequence (transcribed by The PRP), Lyxzén detailed the day of his coronary heart assault and his household historical past.

“So on the 13^th of June this summer season, I had an enormous coronary heart assault. I used to be at a lodge in Uppsala. We had been on the point of do our comeback present. We hadn’t performed in over 4 years, we had been imagined to play an enormous competition in Stockholm the following day.

“And I awoke with insane chest pains. Felt like I used to be on hearth. It was fairly horrible. However I used to be mere minutes away from among the best hospitals in Sweden, and I am insanely grateful for the medical system that we’ve arrange in Sweden.

“They blew up some arteries in my coronary heart, and made certain that I’m doing fairly properly. It is hereditary. I am attempting to be like, the healthiest individual alive, however that did not assist. However then once more, my dad had a stroke when he was in his 50s, my uncle had a coronary heart assault when he was on this late 40s, my grandad had a coronary heart assault, so on and so forth. So it wasn’t actually a lot that I might do to stop this from occurring.

“And by physician’s account, me dwelling a very wholesome way of life in all probability made it in order that I did not have a coronary heart assault earlier. This, in fact, led to the truth that, properly, that Stockholm present did not occur and all the pieces over the summer season bought canceled. And I advised myself, I must take a break from all the pieces.

Lyxzén continued, saying he did not do a lot this summer season other than concentrate on recovering. He famous that he is feeling method higher than he was however continues to be a little bit paranoid after the incident.

“So the summer season, I did not do something. I did not even… I did not reply emails, I did not play guitar. I did not do something, which was extraordinarily, extraordinarily boring, and that’s the reason I have never been doing any episodes.

“After which I took a call that many of the actions that was deliberate for this fall and winter was all going to be moved or canceled. So I needed to speak a little bit bit about that, and my plans for the long run, and the way my totally different initiatives and bands have been affected by this and stuff like that.

“I am feeling fairly nice below the circumstances. I really feel actually good. I misplaced cardio, which was form of irritating. However I am engaged on getting my cardio again. And aside from that, the one factor is the psychological facet of getting lived by a bizarre trauma like that is that I am tremendous delicate now. In order quickly as something in my physique hurts remotely, I am like, ‘What is that this? What’s occurring?’, which is tremendous frequent.

“And that is one thing that I must recover from, and kind of put myself in a scenario the place I hope this isn’t going to occur once more. With right medication, and so forth, and so forth, I ought to be capable to stay a life as full-on as earlier than. In order that’s why I have never been posting. That is why I have never been lively right here these days, however I am again. I really feel actually good and I really feel actually optimistic in regards to the future.”