Refused are fucking useless. No actually.
The Swedish hardcore greats, whose 1998 album The Form Of Punk To Come is considered one of the crucial influential punk data of the previous 30 years, performed their final present yesterday, December 21, at Väven of their hometown of Umeå.
The band’s 21-song-set on the third of their three farewell reveals in Umeå was livestreamed worldwide. And should you’re studying this for the primary time, and are bummed at lacking out, worry not, for it is nonetheless accessible to replay right here.
The present’s set-list was:
Circle Pit
The Form Of Punk To Come
The Refused Social gathering Program
Reasonably Be Useless
Malfire
Liberation Frequency
Summerholidays Vs. Punkroutine
The Lethal Rhythm
Re-Fused
I Want
Hate Breeds Hate
Fairly Face
Life Assist Habit
Coup D’état
Refused Are Fucking Useless
Elektra
Worms Of The Senses/schools Of The Cranium
Encore:
Burn It
Eternal“
Pump The Brakes
New Noise
Watch the ultimate efficiency of New Noise beneath.
Publish-show, frontman Dennis Lyxzén posted: “The weekend is over and it’s been overwhelming to say the least. I want a few days to course of every little thing and I’ll publish extra on the matter.
However for now: due to everybody that got here to the reveals, or watch the reside stream or simply made all of this doable. I like you all.
Refused is useless. Lengthy reside Refused.”
The band not too long ago launched a Kickstarter marketing campaign to assist fund a forthcoming profession spanning documentary, Exit to Finish.
A synopsis for the movie reads:
“Umeå, December 2025. Refused step off stage for the final time. Within the very metropolis the place all of it started, they convey their journey to a detailed. From a moist basement within the Umeå suburb of Teg to the world’s greatest festivals – Exit to Finish tells the story of a band that by no means compromised, and of a motion that got down to change each music and society.
Presently in manufacturing, the movie follows Refused throughout their remaining world tour, weaving between previous and current – from the hardcore scene of Nineteen Nineties Umeå to right this moment’s international levels. By way of the story of the band, the movie paints a broader portrait of Sweden: a rustic in transformation, the place youth rise up and political idealism collided with disaster and alter.
Nineteen Nineties Umeå and Sweden type the historic coronary heart of the movie. Amidst financial recession, rising right-wing extremism and social unrest, a singular youth motion emerged in Umeå the place hardcore, veganism and antifascism got here collectively. On this small northern metropolis, music and activism fused into a worldwide power. The story of Refused can also be the story of that second – of a technology unwilling to surrender on its perception in change.
The band’s worldwide breakthrough got here solely after their cut up in 1998. Their landmark album The Form of Punk to Come would go on to encourage artists worldwide – from Rage Towards the Machine to Foo Fighters – and set up Refused as one of the crucial influential punk bands of all time.
At its core, Exit to Finish can also be a narrative of friendship and battle. The movie facilities on the advanced and infrequently stormy relationship between singer Dennis Lyxzén and drummer David Sandström – two inventive forces whose rigidity and connection have formed the soul of Refused.
“Exit to Finish is greater than a music documentary,” says director Balsam Hellström. “It’s a narrative about the price of idealism, about friendship and reconciliation – and a couple of small city that grew to become world-famous for one thing nobody might have predicted.”
Constructed round Refused’s remaining tour in 2025, the movie spans three a long time of music, politics and friendship. By way of intimate conversations, uncommon archive footage and explosive reside performances, it captures each the facility and fragility of a band that grew to become an emblem for creative integrity and resistance.
