Refused unleash vicious new single “Blood Purple” and career-spanning music video: Stream
After teasing a 30-second snippet final week, Swedish hardcore punks Refused have provided up everything of “Blood Purple” — the lead single from the band’s forthcoming new album, Battle Music, out October 18th. Stream the retrospective music video for the monitor beneath.
Final week’s audio clip was indicative of a heavy post-hardcore screamer, and “Blood Purple” delivers on its guarantees. The breakdown-heavy tune places vocalist Dennis Lyxzén’s charismatic howls within the forefront, with some delicate creative elaborations — just like the surprising acoustic guitars within the refrain — that elevate the tune past mere riffs and mosh-inducing drops, of which there are nonetheless aplenty.
“At a soundcheck someplace on the highway (Austin?), Kristofer [Steen] began taking part in this riff and all of us acquired into it (jamming, because it have been),” the band commented in a press launch. “In order we have been settling into the riff correct and it began rolling and bouncing the best way you’re listening to it right now, no matter we felt had been lacking, it was clear that we had begun to fill that hole. The riff become ‘Blood Purple’, the primary tune we completed for the brand new report and the primary tune we performed reside off of it.”
The video sees Refused performing in opposition to archival footage from their prolonged historical past of chaotic reside performances, together with many microphone twirls, brutal stage dives, and circle pits. Reflecting on their final album, 2015’s Freedom, the band referred to as it a “studio report” and that Battle Music can be nearer in spirit to those legendary reside exhibits.
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“It’s becoming that it’s now the primary tune you’re gonna hear from the brand new report,” the band added, “as a result of it was actually impressed by you, our reside viewers, the outdated and the brand new, who come out and assist us flip each venue right into a boiling sizzling mess. This one’s for you.”
Pre-orders for Battle Music on bodily and digital codecs can be found right here.
