REFUSED // Announce New Album ‘War Music’

Refused has announced their new album, War Music, will drop on 18th October, through Caroline Australia via Spinefarm Records/Search & Destroy.

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The first taste of the record will be the single Blood Red, due to be released next Friday 2nd August. 

“In the present moment, we who believe in the equal distribution of wealth in an egalitarian, ecological direct democracy, we who use gender-neutral pronouns and words like solidarity, moral responsibility, intersectionality and class warfare, we who believe in the Marxist dictum, “from each according to ability, to each according to need” are on our back foot, on our backs, backed up against the wall, surrounded by enemies, our movement curtailed, our rights violated. It’s been clear for some time: the sun is setting on our beliefs”, says the band.

“We still believe that capitalism is cancer and we still believe it can be cured. We still believe that the patriarchy is cancer and we still believe it too can be cured. We still believe in the power of art to transform and expand the mind. And last but by no means least: We still believe in the total violent obliteration of the one percent.”

Refused formed in Umeå, Sweden in 1991 and quickly cemented their status as one of the most influential rock bands of the early ‘00s, influencing the style of artists like Linkin Park, Frank Turner, Steve Aoki, Duff McKagan and Paramore. After a 14-year pause, the band reunited in 2012 to play some huge shows including Coachella. They were also subsequently awarded the “Special Prize for Music Exports” by the Swedish Ministry of Trade in 2013.  

War Music will be the group’s fifth full-length studio album. It is supported by a worldwide tour which kicked off this May in the US with The Hives. Refused also played three major European music festivals in June and will soon embark on further dates in the UK/EU as well as an extensive Scandinavian tour.