Masshysteri: Swedes Rule
The Refused, despite the fervor expounded around the globe after the recent reissue of its supposed opus, is still really, at best, average. Come on. We should all be in for some political rhetoric – and scene politics – but that band wasn’t all that imaginative. And what’s worse, it could be blamed for the slew of subsequent groups copping hardcore as source material and winding up releasing what amounts to pop records.