Shooting Daggers Recruit Former Refused Vocalist Dennis Lyxzén For “GLOW” Video

London outfit Shooting Daggers have teamed up with former Refused vocalist Dennis Lyxzén for their new single “GLOW.” The punk icon both lends guest vocals to the track and appears in its newly released music video.

The trio previously opened for Refused during the band’s final UK live dates last year, making the collaboration a natural continuation of that connection. The video itself draws inspiration from the Netflix series GLOW and the real-life all-women’s wrestling promotion that inspired the show.

The song will appear on Shooting Daggers’ upcoming mini-album ‘The Real Life Thing’, due out June 5th via New Heavy Sounds.

Speaking about the track, the band shared:

“This track is about denouncing gender roles and respecting gender identity. Self-liberation, embracing femininity and fighting internal misogyny. Feminine isn’t weak, and masculine doesn’t have to be stereotypically strong.

It doesn’t matter if you want to express strength in a more masculine or feminine way, anything is valid as long as you feel powerful from within. When we wrote this song we knew who we wanted to have a feature on it and we were just back from opening two shows for punk legends Refused and all of us were mesmerised by Dennis Lyxzén‘s stage presence.

Refused has been a band that never wanted to fit in in a specific sound, they are pioneers of experimental punk while still being rooted in hardcore. They believe in what we believe in, antifascism, veganism, social justice and Dennis on stage is anything but a generic hardcore singer. He jumps, he twirls, he dances, he dresses fancy and we knew from minute one he was the one. Of course, we had no certainty he would’ve said yes but we had to try. He accepted straight away and has been super supportive and collaborative of the coming of GLOW. We couldn’t be more grateful.”

Lyxzén also commented on joining the project:

“We brought Shooting Daggers with us for a couple of shows last year on the final Refused tour. They were great of course. Radical and fun and they just seemed like great people. When they asked me if I wanted to sing on a track for their new album I did not hesitate for one second. It was a complete honor to be a part of this album and I am very much looking forward to seeing what Shooting Daggers does next.”

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