Refused announce their final tour alongside tribute album featuring IDLES, Touche Amore, GEL and more

After reuniting in 2012, Refused have officially announce the end of their influential run and share plans for a farewell tour that will mark the band’s final performances in the United States.

Refused drummer David Sandström explains: “We were supposed to do this in May. Roll out our modest farewell run, starting with the Rosendal Garden Party in Stockholm and then doing a few shows here and there before calling it quits end of year." Unfortunately, these plans were put on hold due to frontman Dennis Lyxzén suffering a heart attack."

"We gave it several shots between 2012 and 2024. We all have different takes on how it went and what the legacy of the reformed band will be, but personally I felt we couldn’t quite agree on what we were supposed to do musically, and we were still struggling with that when the pandemic hit," he continues, noting that they were riding high about their plans for a final tour before "disaster struck", with Lyxzén's heart attack.

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"Dennis is doing great. He’s one of the healthiest dudes I know, he can’t sit still, exercises a lot and it follows that his recuperation would be swift... needless to say, he’s itching to get back on tour to play shows and he even suggested we should keep preliminary dates set up for the late fall and winter, but we decided to postpone those shows and instead start up in the spring. He concludes about their final plans: "We’re coming to the US in March/April 2025 and we’re looking at what else we can do with the rest of the year, all we know is that we want to finish back home in Sweden at the end of the year."

In addition, on 8 November Refused will be celebrating 25 years of their groundbreaking record, The Shape Of Punk To Come, with a limited collector’s edition loaded with exclusives, including a 3 LP version of the album on exclusive coloured vinyl, unreleased demos and rare alternate versions of songs. The anniversary package also comes with a 12-song tribute album titled, The Shape Of Punk To Come Obliterated, with covers and remixes by boundary bands such as Quicksand, Zulu, Gel, IDLES, Touche Amore and more.