Kevin Bronson on November 8th, 2012

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The mosh pit – a huge circle of flailing, banging bodies – started early and pretty much never stopped. Crowd surfers abounded; fans climbed the speakers and dived; and the Fonda Theatre shook like there was no tomorrow. Because, in a sense, there wasn’t.

The occasion on Monday night was the final U.S. show of Refused’s yearlong reunion. The Swedish hardcore punk band, which had already stamped themselves as must-see with SoCal shows earlier this year at Coachella and FYF Fest, went out with a bang. Midway through the set, frontman Dennis Lyxzén even did some “crowd-walking,” standing and singing while being held up by fans. That – and an encore that started with “New Noise” – made for memorable moments for a band that put out three albums in the 1990s and broke up in ’98, vowing never to reunite.

L.A. quintet the Bronx opened the show with an intense 45 minutes of their own hardcore punk, including in their set four new songs from their forthcoming fourth album.

Photos by Carl Pocket