Refused are dead (again) but Backengrillen has been born from its ashes. Featuring three fourths of seminal Swedish post-hardcore architects in vocalist Dennis Lyxzén, bassist Magnus Flagge, and drummer David Sandström alongside experimental noise composer and saxophonist Mats Gustafsson (who I can attest puts on a heck of a show on his own accord from what I saw almost two decades ago playing live with with Thurston Moore,) they’re creating what they’ve described as the pursuit “to take a death/doom metal, or noiserock riff and play it until it loses meaning and then break it apart like a ravenous cat would a tiny forest mouse.”

“A Hate Inferior”, the lead single and opener from their forthcoming debut album, Backengrillens, triples as the sonic definition of just that across its nearly-wordless 10-minute listen. Battering big metallic riffs, chaotic brass, and hellion screams that takes the backseat to its violent, raw noisecore barrage being directed toward ire from all angles, it doesn’t stop until its been brought to the brink and collapses into silence. The surface of its heavy weight brandishes its unfiltered emotional energy without hiding anything, but by all means, it’s a healthier way to channel modern life’s abominations into an artform before they eat away at you…

Backengrillen’s Backengrillens will be released January 23rd on Svarte Records.