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Refused Cancel Swedish Festival Gig After Singer Dennis Lyxzén Suffers ‘Massive’ Heart Attack: ‘Really Shook Up’

Refused had to cancel what was billed as their final Swedish festival gig after singer Dennis Lyxzén suffered a 'massive' heart attack.

Beloved Swedish punk rockers Refused had to cancel their gig at Stockholm’s Rosendal Garden Party festival this weekend after singer Dennis Lyxzén revealed that he’d suffered a heart attack. It’s was extremely painful and wildly scary,” the singer said on Thursday (June 13) alongside a photo of him in the hospital hooked up to a raft of medical devices. The band released a trio of blistering post-hardcore albums in the 1990s, including their smash mouth 1994 debut, This Just Might Be… The Truth, followed by 1996’s equally blistering Songs to Fan the Flames of Discontent and the LP that is considered to be their creative peak, 1998’s The Shape of Punk to Come, which added some jazzy and experimental elements to the songs again driven by Lyxzén’s primal howl vocals.

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