One of the best albums in over a decade will finally get the deluxe treatment it deserves. Refused unleashed the album The Shape of Punk to Come in 1998 and it changed the landscape of hardcore and punk for the better. (That is until bands like My Chemical Romance and Hot Topic ruined it again.)
Listening to The Shape of Punk to Come over 10 years later, it still seems ahead of it’s time. For fans like myself, June 8th can’t come soon enough. Epitaph will be releasing the 3 disc set. It will include the original album, a previously unreleased live album recorded in Sweden in 1998, and a DVD of the breakup documentary Refused Are Fucking Dead.
Shortly after Refused released The Shape of Punk to Come the band broke up. Frontman Dennis Lyxzén later formed the (International) Noise Conspiracy.
