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News : Fourth band announced for Soundwave Festival 2016

By on September 4, 2015

Swedish alternative metal outfit Refused are the fourth band to be announced for the 2016 instalment of Soundwave Festival. The band are currently promoting their new release ‘Freedom’, now available from Epitaph Records.

REFUSED wasn’t just ruminating about the lasting impact of popular culture when it began its 1998 album ‘The Shape Of Punk To Come’ with a lyric about classics never going out of style — it was also taking stock of its own turbulent existence, which met an ignominious end later that year in front of 50 kids at a basement show in a Virginia college town. In the ensuing years, the band cast a giant shadow over the world of underground rock, with the boundary-exploding “Shape” rising to all-time legendary status as it influenced a new generation of musical revolutionaries.

Don’t miss your chance to see Refused live at Soundwave 2016, alongside the previously announced Bullet For My Valentine, Failure and Dead Letter Circus. Early bird tickets are now available via Soundwave.

Saturday 23 January, 2016 – Brisbane

Sunday 24 January, 2016 – Sydney

Tuesday 26 January, 2016 – Melbourne (Australia Day public holiday)

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