THE BLOODY BEETROOTS & STEVE AOKI FEAT. REFUSED "NEW NOISE" OUT TOMORROW
The point of the exercise is to build a bridge with history and bring the art of REFUSED to a generation of younger fans who may never have heard of them. Revisiting this great track, "New Noise" by REFUSED is a postmodern archaeological action...
...and not much more.
REFUSED "NEW NOISE" ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO
In 1998 a Swedish hardcore band called Refused released their third and what was to prove their final studio album The Shape of Punk to Come. Despite being lavished with praise amongst circles in the punk underground, the album largely slipped unnoticed, underneath the radar of the mainstream music press at a time when the nu-metal behemoth was beginning its ominous rise, and was dismissed on the underground scene by some purists for straying too far from the strict hardcore rulebook. After close to seven years of increasing inner tension and ideological conflict, after touring the album the band called it quits. The music world barely batted an eye-lid at the announcement.
Fast-forward to 2005 and Refused songs are played every weekend in rock clubs the length and breadth of the country, The Shape of Punk to Come is widely heralded as one of the most important punk-rock albums ever recorded. A veritable who’s who of rock music today are lining up to name drop them; from stadium giants Metallica, Foo Fighters and Sum 41, to the UK’s very own Muse, Hell Is For Heroes and the recently departed Million Dead, who even named themselves after a Refused lyric. It seems everybody who is anybody is going out of their way to pay tribute to the band.
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The point of the exercise is to build a bridge with history and bring the art of REFUSED to a generation of younger fans who may never have heard of them. Revisiting this great track, "New Noise" by REFUSED is a postmodern archaeological action...
...and not much more.
REFUSED "NEW NOISE" ORIGINAL MUSIC VIDEO
In 1998 a Swedish hardcore band called Refused released their third and what was to prove their final studio album The Shape of Punk to Come. Despite being lavished with praise amongst circles in the punk underground, the album largely slipped unnoticed, underneath the radar of the mainstream music press at a time when the nu-metal behemoth was beginning its ominous rise, and was dismissed on the underground scene by some purists for straying too far from the strict hardcore rulebook. After close to seven years of increasing inner tension and ideological conflict, after touring the album the band called it quits. The music world barely batted an eye-lid at the announcement.
Fast-forward to 2005 and Refused songs are played every weekend in rock clubs the length and breadth of the country, The Shape of Punk to Come is widely heralded as one of the most important punk-rock albums ever recorded. A veritable who’s who of rock music today are lining up to name drop them; from stadium giants Metallica, Foo Fighters and Sum 41, to the UK’s very own Muse, Hell Is For Heroes and the recently departed Million Dead, who even named themselves after a Refused lyric. It seems everybody who is anybody is going out of their way to pay tribute to the band.
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