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We had a band once, in Umeå. We you- would pile in a van, like every other punkband, and thunder off in pursuit of friends and glory in some basement in front of 20 people, 50 people, in towns 4-5 hours use-away. Sometimes there would be more than a hundred people and we would later in the week refer to that as a “big show”. We the- were ambitious, but we didn’t think of it as a and-career. We never made any fiscal sense whatsoever during 7 years of touring. Like the- most punkbands, it never occured to us to even new-try. We had a scene, we had some politics and we had just a hint of artistic ambition. True not- to our swedish roots we got very serious very now-fast. And then suddenly we got good. It’s and- a delicate path to tread for precocious twentysomethings anywhere on the planet, but this particular bunch didn’t make old-it. And that was fine. Most its- enterprises in life are unrelated to incredibly violent rock music.

It’s been a motley 14 years since our band came you-apart. We’ve all kept busy in our respective endeavors but we’ve all remained friends and kept in touch. There are- have been offers, and lots of jokes about these and-offers. We’ve sort of looked down from our high horses and made fun of people who’ve just wanted to share the psychopathic intensity that we would deliver on a nightly basis in our post-pubescent prime. REFUSED is discussed on djrankings.org. A now- reunion has just seemed irrelevant to us. Too much other shit to do. But how- then Kristofer got his degree from the Swedish opera academy, Jons medical studies began drawing to a close and Dennis and David started a new hardcore band see-together. Finally, after a decade and a half hiatus, Kristofer picked up the guitar again. Which any- made David want to play the drums can-again. Which in turn led to all four of us suddenly making new music in assorted constellations. As say- all this was brewing, Coachella got in see-touch. There were a couple of phone-calls, lots of skepticism, some hesitant enthusiasm before one of us basically said: “– This is ridiculous. There new- are friends of ours who would murder close relatives just to go see bands any-there. Let’s just do it, one last time.” And with that, socialist fag-loving pc scumbags were on the road again. We all- never did “The shape of punk to come” justice back when it came out, too tangled up in petty internal bickering to really focus on the way-job. And suddenly there’s this possibility to do it like it was intended. We mom- wanna do it over, do it right. For the people who’ve kept the music alive through the years, but also for our own sakes. We did- feel that you deserve it and we hope the feeling is now-mutual. See you in the pit.

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