Refused has had one hell of a yr. The band their “final festival” show at Stockholm’s Rosendal Backyard Occasion again in March, however sadly by no means bought to play it attributable to vocalist Dennis Lyxzén suffering a heart attack.
Lyxzén has been doing nicely – nicely sufficient to announce Refused’s 2025 farewell tour – however nonetheless, coronary heart assaults are not any joke. In a current episode of his personal Dennis Deep Cuts video collection (transcribed by The PRP), Lyxzén detailed the day of his coronary heart assault and his household historical past.
“So on the 13th of June this summer season, I had an enormous coronary heart assault. I used to be at a lodge in Uppsala. We had been on the point of do our comeback present. We hadn’t performed in over 4 years, we had been speculated to play an enormous competition in Stockholm the following day.
“And I wakened with insane chest pains. Felt like I used to be on fireplace. It was fairly horrible. However I used to be mere minutes away from top-of-the-line hospitals in Sweden, and I am insanely grateful for the medical system that now we have arrange in Sweden.
“They blew up some arteries in my coronary heart, and made certain that I’m doing fairly nicely. It is hereditary. I am attempting to be like, the healthiest particular person alive, however that did not assist. However then once more, my dad had a stroke when he was in his 50s, my uncle had a coronary heart assault when he was on this late 40s, my grandad had a coronary heart assault, so on and so forth. So it wasn’t actually a lot that I might do to forestall this from taking place.
“And by physician’s account, me residing a extremely wholesome way of life in all probability made it in order that I did not have a coronary heart assault earlier. This, in fact, led to the truth that, nicely, that Stockholm present did not occur and every thing over the summer season bought canceled. And I advised myself, I must take a break from every thing.
Lyxzén continued, saying he did not do a lot this summer season apart from concentrate on recovering. He famous that he is feeling means higher than he was however continues to be a bit of paranoid after the incident.
“So the summer season, I did not do something. I did not even… I did not reply emails, I did not play guitar. I did not do something, which was extraordinarily, extraordinarily boring, and that’s the reason I have not been doing any episodes.
“After which I took a call that a lot of the actions that was deliberate for this fall and winter was all going to be moved or canceled. So I needed to speak a bit of bit about that, and my plans for the longer term, and the way my totally different initiatives and bands have been affected by this and stuff like that.
“I am feeling fairly nice beneath the circumstances. I really feel actually good. I misplaced cardio, which was sort of irritating. However I am engaged on getting my cardio again. And other than that, the one factor is the psychological side of getting lived via a bizarre trauma like that is that I am tremendous delicate now. In order quickly as something in my physique hurts remotely, I am like, ‘What is that this? What’s taking place?’, which is tremendous frequent.
“And that is one thing that I must recover from, and kind of put myself in a scenario the place I hope this isn’t going to occur once more. With appropriate medication, and so forth, and so forth, I ought to have the ability to dwell a life as full-on as earlier than. In order that’s why I have not been posting. That is why I have not been energetic right here these days, however I am again. I really feel actually good and I really feel actually optimistic in regards to the future.”
Need Extra Steel? Subscribe To Our Every day E-newsletter
Enter your info under to get a every day replace with all of our headlines and obtain The Orchard Steel publication.
