"If a band ever finds that it is not giving their best effort and playing at the edge of their abilities at all times, then they are not playing the kind of music that they should be playing." - Patrick T. Daly, taken from the liner notes of "The Shape of Punk to Come" This philosophy, placed in the context of hardcore music, is what makes Refused so unique. On “The Shape of Punk to Come,” complex rhythms, hardcore rage, political activism and a dose of experimental sonic atmospherics, all smashed together to create a seamless ball of energy. Perhaps this explains why this aptly-titled record is often cited as the most influential record ever to arise from the hardcore genre, one that has spawned a whole new generation of like-minded, experimental politico posthardcore bands.

With the release of “The Shape Of Punk To Come”, REFUSED pioneered the hardcore sound in a shocking, surprising but most of all impressing way. "The Shape Of Punk To Come" album is an innovative twelve track bombination of intellectual revolutionary punk where the band stand up as vanguard of new open-minded noise. It’s a provoking and progressive adventurous dose of chimerical hardcore that refuses to be stale. And hardcore will never ever be the same again. This is the sound, this is the pulse. This is the beat of a new generation!

ALL BUT overlooked by the mainstream at the time of its release, this has since come to be recognized by musicians galore as one of the greatest heavy albums of all time. The no-nonsense hardcore scene which spawned this Swedish combo collectively shat itself when this mixture of smart-bomb riffing, ambient electronica, leftist politics and near perfect pop was birthed. It was so good, in fact, that the band broke up proclaiming they’d achieved what they set out to do and there was no point carrying on.