Track Listing

1. Worms Of The Senses / Faculties Of The Skull
2. Liberation Frequency
3. The Deadly Rhythm
4. Summerholidays vs Punkroutine
5. Bruitist Pome #5
6. New Noise
7. The Refused Party Program
8. Protest Song '68
9. Refused Are Fuckin Dead
10. The Shape Of Punk To Come
11. Tannhauser / Derivè
12. The Apollo Programme Was A Hoax

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21453 in Music
• Released on: 2004-05-24
• Number of discs: 1

From Amazon.com
If not the album of the year, it's at least the punk-rock album of the year, fiercely representing a musical ethos that has suffered the ignominious shame of commercial popularity. "We want the airwaves back!" shrieks singer (if you can use that word) Dennis, and over the course of The Shape of Punk to Come's 12 sonically stunning tracks, they reclaim the right to rage, rant, and innovate. The Refused broke up soon after recording this album, but they've left behind an invigorating manifesto. --Tod Nelson

Customer Reviews

There is nothing that can be said....
that'll do this album any justice. It's perfect. Everything I think Refused tried to achieve with The Shape of Punk to Come, they did.
Dennis Lyxzéns lyrics are flawless. They flow and all work together beautifully. The guitars kill it. And the drums? Just forget about it.
Anybody that claims to be 'into' the genre of rock, or any kind of variation of it, needs to get this album!!

Shape of Punk to Come
This album is like no other and shows just how far Refused could have gone if only theyd kept going. It's unique style makes it a welcome change to most music around nowadays. The lyrics are passionate and well written, finely delivered by the singer with his trademark screams finely balanced with the melower verses of songs like Liberation Frequency and Protest Song '68. In all an astounding album and by far one of the best in my collection. A must buy if ever there was one.

a groundbreaker
refused were once a band that played short sharp punky tracks with hardcore undertones,but with their final album they were responsible for the birth of a new movement called screamcore,they may not have known it despite their seemingly arrogant album title which is more ironic than belief.
While in 1998 indie was dead,punk was finding a new face with pop punk and grunge was dead and metal was gaining its fire,refused came along and released something just that little bit different.This album brought longer songs,songs that werent predictable and a sense of energy that was long lost.
The album is punky in places but isnt a punk album,more screamcore than anything else that i care to identify,emo can hold a look of love to this as well,it isnt all frantic noise,there are controlled moments as well such as on 'summerholidays vs punkroutine' and on the instrumental 'bruitist pome #5' which is a xylophone played track with electronica.Dennis lyxzens vocals are sharp yet never that fierce but his influence is hard to pin down,so many owe so much,and that goes for the band as a whole and this album is the blueprint that many would follow,respect is due.