Video footage available of Refused’s swan song

Refused concluded their second chapter on December 21st, with a farewell concert at Väven in their hometown of Umeå, Sweden, as per lambgoat. The final set list and footage of the performance are provided below. After their second final performance, vocalist Dennis Lyxzén issued a statement.

The weekend is over and it’s been overwhelming to say the least.
I need a couple of days to process everything and I will post more on the matter.

But for now: thanks to everyone that came to the shows, or watch the live stream or just made all of this possible. I love you all.

Refused is dead. Long live Refused.

The 21-song set marked the culmination of the band’s international farewell tour and was broadcast via livestream globally. A recorded replay of the event continues to be accessible online.

Setlist:

1. Circle Pit
2. The Shape Of Punk To Come
3. The Refused Party Program
4. Rather Be Dead
5. Malfire
6. Liberation Frequency
7. Summerholidays Vs. Punkroutine
8. The Deadly Rhythm
9. Re-Fused
10. I Wish
11. Hate Breeds Hate
12. Pretty Face
13. Life Support Addiction
14. Coup D’état
15. Refused Are Fucking Dead
16. Elektra
17. Worms Of The Senses/Faculties Of The Skull
18. Burn It
19. Everlasting
20. Pump The Brakes
21. New Noise

Swedish rock band Refused wasn’t just ruminating about the lasting impact of popular culture when it began its 1998 album “The Shape Of Punk To Come” with a lyric about classics never going out of style — it was also taking stock of its own turbulent existence, which met an ignominious end later that year in front of 50 kids at a basement show in a Virginia college town. Indeed, Refused came and went before the true power of its music could be understood, even by its own members. And in the ensuing years, the band cast a giant shadow over the world of underground rock, with the boundary-exploding “Shape” rising to all-time legendary status as it influenced a new generation of musical revolutionaries.

After Refused, frontman Dennis Lyxzen, drummer David Sandstrom, guitarist Kristofer Steen and bassist Magnus Flagge started anew in a host of different bands — sometimes in various combinations of playing together, sometimes making music they didn’t intend anyone else to hear. All the while, “Refused was this weird albatross,” says Lyxzen. “I could play a great show and walk out into the crowd afterward, and someone would come up and say, ‘I love Refused.’ For a long time, playing together again wasn’t even on the table.”