Spinefarm Records and Search & Destroy are proud to partner with Refused globally to deliver the band’s opening salvo “Blood Red” (teaser), which will be released on August 2nd. The first single off their upcoming album ‘War Music’, the song is a straight forward declaration of the band’s unwavering political and musical philosophy.
“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 fucking dead.
Let’s go.”
//Refused
Out Oct. 18th – ‘War Music’ will be their fifth full-length studio album and will be accompanied by a Worldwide concert tour, which began in May 2019 with a US tour with The Hives and three major European music festivals in June.
