Refused have announced a 2025 Farewell Tour, which is scheduled to be held from March 21, 2025 to April 10, 2025 in venues across mainland United States and Canada. Alongside the tour, the band has announced that they will reissue their iconinc album The Shape of Punk to Come in a 25th anniversary special edition as well as a tribute album titled The Shape of Punk to Come Obliterated.
Tickets for the tour will be available from September 13, 2024 at 10:00 am local time from the official website of the band. Ticket prices have not been announced as of the writing of this article.
The band announced the new tour via a post on their official Instagram page on September 10, 2024, with band member David Sandström stating in the announcement:
"We’re coming to the US and Canada in March/April 2025 and then we'll see what we're gonna do with the rest of that year. All we know is that we want to finish back home in Sweden sometime that winter. Let us know if there are songs you want us to play and we’ll give them a shot. Hope to see you out there."
Refused 2025 Farewell tour dates and venues and album tracklist
The dates and venues for the Refused 2025 Farewell tour is as follows:
- March 21, 2025 – Brooklyn, New York at Brooklyn Paramount
- March 23, 2025 – Toronto, Ontario at History
- March 25, 2025 – Chicago, Illinois at Salt Shed
- March 27, 2025 – San Francisco, California at The Warfield
- March 28, 2025 – Los Angeles, California at Shrine Expo Hall
- March 29, 2025 – Del Mar, California at The Sound
- March 30, 2025 – Phoenix, Arizona at Marquee Theatre
- April 1, 2025 – Denver, Colorado at Ogden Theatre
- April 2, 2025 – Salt Lake City, Utah at Union Event Center
- April 4, 2025 – Boise, Idaho at Knitting Factory
- April 5, 2025 – Seattle, Washington State at The Showbox
- April 7, 2025 – Vancouver, British Columbia at Vogue Theatre
- April 8, 2025 – Portland, Oregon at Revolution Hall
- April 10, 2025 – Sacramento, California at Ace of Spades
The Shape to Come limited edition as well as the tribute album The Shape of Punk to Come Obliterated are both limited to 3000 copies each. Refused announced the limited edition, which will be available on November 8, 2024, on September 10, 2024 via a post on their official Instagram page:
"Whatever the record means to everyone else, it represents a remarkable time in our lives when we were young and devil-may-care, we were taking risks, wanting to prove our mettle, and more than anything else we want to celebrate that: the madness, the wild combinations, the pure creativity of it all. "
The statement continued:
So we asked a bunch of artists we love and respect to actually take liberties with the songs and either rearrange or deconstruct the material completely, to take the engine apart essentially and not be precious about it.
The statement further added:
"And they weren't, and to us this is the only tribute to our record that matters:- heroes of ours, young guns as well as old friends and peers complimenting our music by uncovering new possibilities and new meaning within it. These bands are all caviar for the general and we are honored they took time to be a part of this. Thank you all."
The tracklist for The Shape of Punk to Come Obliterated is given below:
- Worms of the Senses / Faculties of the Skull by Gel
- The Liberation Frequency by Quicksand
- The Deadly Rhythm by Brutus
- Summer Holidays vs. Punkroutine by Snapcase
- New Noise (Remix) by Idles
- New Noise by Ho99o9
- Refused Party Program by Fucked Up
- Protest Song ’68 by Zulu
- Refused Are Fucking Dead by Cold Cave
- The Shape of Punk to Come by Igorr
- Tannhäuser / Derive by Cult of Luna
- The Apollo Programme Was a Hoax by Touche Amore
Refused had their best commercial success with the 2015 album Freedom. Released on June 30, 2015, the album charted at number 2 on the Swedish album chart.
