Swedish hardcore legends Refused return with fifth LP War Music
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Swedish hardcore legends Refused return with fifth LP War Music

Marking the first record to be released under their deal with Spinefarm and Search & Destroy, the announcement of War Music is backed with a teaser for the project’s lead single, ‘Blood Red’, which officially lands next Friday. Listen to a snippet and a live version of the track below. 

 

 

The Swedish hardcore pioneers have also penned a rather dense, word-heavy socio-political spiel to accompany the album announcement, which you can read in its entirety below. 

 

“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.

But 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.
Blood red until we’re f**king dead.
Let’s go.”

 

 

War Music, the fifth album from Refused, arrives on Friday October 18. Head to their website for preorder details.