Legendary Welshman Dylan Thomas wrote in the poem ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ that one must “rage, rage against the dying of the light”.
If the definition of ‘rage’ is shaking your skinny fists in the face of this impending darkness and screaming your lungs out over searing riffs and pummeling drum beats, then Refused’s 1998 release THE SHAPE OF PUNK TO COME did just that.
This is quite simply one of the best breakup albums ever. Fierce , visceral, incendiary and vitriolic, this masterpiece of a musical manifesto was to book-end seven years of brilliant straight-edge Swedish hardcore.
As the disbanding foursome entered the Punk annals as underground legends, this last gasp of volatile Marxist and anarchist agenda set the bar of innovation and excellence at an all time high, ushering in a new epoch of what it was to be hardcore.
By Josh Gardiner
Release: Album
To Cure: A broken heart
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