Ploegendienst

Ploegendienst plows ahead on rocks: no resistance, no beauty. Still 100% anti-everything, “especially anti-everything people say you should be.” Not the band that smashed a bar last year, though they might seem like it. Ploegendienst is “constant growth,” “fearless,” a constant tension. Four friends pushing each other to the limit, turning friction into brilliance, as heard on their last album 'DSM-5'.

Call it hardcore, punk, or “venomous pop music”; it doesn’t matter. Ploegendienst works relentlessly and exists only in the moment, a moment you have to experience live. Sold-out tours with Jeugd van Tegenwoordig, packed clubs across the Netherlands and Belgium, and festival summers at Pukkelpop, Pinkpop, and Lowlands have firmly put them on the map.

“Ploegendienst, possibly the best Dutch punk act right now, with frontman Ray Fuego’s verbal onslaughts and pure hardcore energy.” — de Volkskrant