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Refused break out deep cuts, Snapcase collab & more on farewell tour (pics from NYC w/ Quicksand & Orange 9mm)
Refused spent their apparently-final NYC show gushing over the city’s hardcore scene, following opening sets from two of the scene’s most influential bands.
Refused are breaking up once again, “and this time they really mean it,” but before they do, they’re giving us one last tour which began in DC on Thursday (3/20) and hit NYC’s Brooklyn Paramount the following night (3/21). It’s a bittersweet thing for the band to be saying goodbye after coming back in 2012 and releasing two more albums (2015’s Freedom and 2019’s War Music), but the sadness of Refused’s departure was drowned out by excitement for the present moment at the sold-out Brooklyn Paramount on Friday. Dennis Lyxzén was in one of the most positive moods I’ve ever seen him in, and he clearly seemed excited to be sending Refused off on a much more celebratory note than the one they first broke up on back in 1998. In addition to playing almost all of The Shape of Punk to Come, they played songs from all throughout their career, from very deep, rarely-played early cuts up through reunion-era material.
Dennis opened up to the crowd about the heart attack he suffered last year, and how scary it was to be playing his first big shows since recovering. It hasn’t slowed him down though, and it was obvious that he was beyond grateful to have not only recovered, but to be getting the chance to scream these songs one more time and dance his ass off in the process. Being in NYC, he also took multiple opportunities to gush over how much of an inspiration the New York Hardcore scene has always been on Refused (whose first-ever show he said included them playing four Gorilla Biscuits covers), and how the Dennis Lyxzén of the early ’90s never would’ve believed that, over 30 years later, NY post-hardcore pioneers Quicksand and Orange 9mm would be opening for his band.
Orange 9mm, who were added to the show after it sold out, kicked things off off at 8 PM, playing just their second set of the past 25 years after reuniting to play the New York City Tattoo Arts Convention last summer. The current iteration of the band has charismatic leader Chaka Malik joined by guitarist Taylor McLam (who joined during the making of their 1996 sophomore album Tragic) and two new members–Chris Enriquez (On the Might of Princes, Spotlights) on drums and Cory Bonfiglio on bass–and they had a handful of people in the crowd yelling along to their ’90s classics. They also played a new song called “Turn It Up”–is more new Orange 9mm on the way?
Orange 9mm debuting new song “Turn It Up” at second show in 25 years (opening for Refused & Quicksand in NYC) pic.twitter.com/QK5sFz9GSH
— BrooklynVegan (@brooklynvegan) March 22, 2025
Orange 9mm were just on the NYC stop of the tour, but all dates from NYC onwards are with Quicksand, who played second and were as great as I’d ever seen them. Playing as a 3-piece, they kept stage banter to a minimum and instead flew through a set of ’90s classics and highlights from their great recent album Distant Populations (2021). Given the very clear influence that Orange 9mm and Quicksand both had on Refused, they perfectly set the stage for this show in more ways than one.
By the time the headliners took the stage, the place was fully packed and the crowd was ready to give back all the energy that Refused were putting out there. Right up through the end of the encore, the place was a madhouse and it felt like this band were finally getting the proper sendoff that they deserved over 25 years earlier.
The night after the Brooklyn show, Refused made their way upstate to Buffalo where they had a regionally-appropriate surprise. Vocalist Daryl Taberski and guitarist Jon Salemi of hometown heroes Snapcase, who toured with Refused in the ’90s and influenced The Shape of Punk to Come, joined them on stage for a performance of Snapcase’s own classic “Caboose,” a song Refused also partially covered during their surprise late-night Saint Vitus show back in 2015.
By the looks of things, Refused have been changing up which deep cuts they play each night. At the tour-opener in DC, they played “Blind” from their first demo for the first time since 1993, and in Brooklyn, they played “Burn It” from 1994’s Everlasting EP for the first time since the ’90s and gave a rare performance of the same EP’s title track.
Stay tuned to see what other surprises Refused have in store on this tour and check out more pics from the Brooklyn show by Edwina Hay below, along with full-set videos and setlists of all three bands.
Orange 9mm @ Brooklyn Paramount – 3/21/25 Setlist
Cutting and Draining
Magnet
Turn It Up (live debut)
Suspect
High Speed Changer
Tragic
Driver
Glistening
Can’t Decide
Quicksand @ Brooklyn Paramount – 3/21/25 Setlist
Fazer
Colossus
Thorn in My Side
Too Official
Supercollider
Omission
Brown Gargantuan
Head to Wall
Inversion
Unfulfilled
Phase 90
Lightning Field
Dine Alone
Landmine Spring
Lie and Wait
Refused @ Brooklyn Paramount – 3/21/25 Setlist
Poetry Written in Gasoline
The Shape of Punk to Come
The Refused Party Program
Rather Be Dead
Burn It
Everlasting
Pump the Brakes
Malfire
Liberation Frequency
Summerholidays vs. Punkroutine
Refused Are Fucking Dead
Dawkins Christ
The Deadly Rhythm (with “Raining Blood” interlude)
Elektra
New Noise
Tannhäuser / Derivè
Encore:
Protest Song ’68
Coup d’état
Worms of the Senses/Faculties of the Skull
