REFUSED Release their First New Song in 17 Years; New Album “Freedom” Out this Summer

by | Apr 27, 2015

Word on the street for a while has been that Refused have been working on a new album. Even after their 2012 reunion tour the band insisted that the group would be laid to rest. But Refused aren’t fucking dead, and in fact will be releasing a new album this summer.

The band’s forthcoming record is titled Freedom and it’ll serve as a follow-up to their 1998 album The Shape of Punk to Come. This summer the band will be all over the world, and will even be doing a run of dates with Faith No More.

Here’s a new track off the record called “Elektra.”

Freedom will be available on June 30th via Epitaph.

Refused tour dates:

May 24 Las Vegas, NV @ Punk Rock Bowling & Music Festival
May 25 Santa Ana, CA @ The Observatory
May 26 West Hollywood, CA @ Roxy Theatre
May 28 San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall
May 29 Portland, OR @ Doug Fir Loung
May 30 Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
May 31 Chicago, IL @ Double Door
Jun 01 Boston, MA @ The Sinclair
Jun 03 New York, NY @ Bowery Ballroom
Jun 04 Brooklyn, NY @ Music Hall Of Williamsburg
Jun 05 Washington, DC @ Rock and Roll Hotel

Jun 20 Montebello, QC @ Amnesia Rockfest

Jun 27 Seinäjoki, FIN @ Provinssi
Jun 02 Gdynia, POL @ Open’er Festival
Jun 11 Collalbo, ITA @ Rock im Ring
Jun 16 Viveiro, ESP @ Resurrection Fest
Jun 17 Tønsberg, NOR @ Slottsfjell
Jun 18 Tromso, NOR @ Bukta Tromso Open Air Festival

w/ Faith No More

Jul 30 Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade Music Park
Jul 31 Raleigh, NC @ Red Hat Amphitheater
Aug 01 Philadelphia, PA @ Mann Center for the Performing Arts
Aug 02 Columbia, MD @ Merriweather Post Pavilion
Aug 04 Boston, MA @ Blue Hills Bank Pavilion
Aug 05 New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden
Aug 07 Toronto, ON @ Ricoh Coliseum

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