The band decided to call it quits after a show in Atlanta, Georgia. Flights were booked back to Sweden, and the band set out towards the Reagan International Airport. Fred Ziomek, guitarist for tourmates Darkest Hour, had attended James Madison University, in nearby Harrisonburg, Virginia. He convinced the band to play one last show in his basement en route to National Airport. They agreed, and even though there were only around twelve hours to promote the show, there were still around four-hundred people in attendance.
The police kept coming by all night, and Tony Weinbender who had been put in charge of organizing everything, kept them at bay for a while. Then they came during Frodus and said, “If we get another complaint and have to come back here, we’re taking you to jail.” Weinbender said he would shut the show down, but did not. A few songs into Refused’s set, police entered the house and plowed through the throng of people to get to the basement. The band began playing what would be their final song, “Rather Be Dead”, as the police forced their way through the crowd. The song reached the crescendo where Dennis would have screamed, “rather be alive”. The plug was pulled (literally), and the band stopped playing. The audience kept screaming the refrain to the song, “rather be alive”. The police were at a loss for what to do. Weinbender was taken to jail. He still maintains to this day that it was worth it.
Years later, members of the band would admit that they felt a sense of relief that the cops had shut the show down.