Ploughing on rocks. Without resistance, there's no beauty. Ploegendienst is still 100% anti-everything, "certainly anti-everything people tell you to be." Ploegendienst isn't the band you saw tearing up a bar last year, even though they might look like it. Ploegendienst is "constant growth," "no fear"; a constant tension. The four of them are pushing each other hard, getting to the bottom of each other, and all that friction adds luster to their new album, 'DSM-5'.

Call it hardcore, call it punk, call it "vitriolic pop music." Call it what you will, it doesn't matter. Ploegendienst operates relentlessly and exists only in the moment. That moment? Then you have to see Ray Fuego's punk band live.