While the world went silent, Beachdog spent their two years in lockdown getting ready until it was time to unleash themselves. Finally, a new loud rock band with enough accessible songs was let loose on a large audience. An audience that had missed going wild in sweaty halls with friends, fists in the air.
David Achter de Molen became known as the lead singer of successful Dutch punk/hardcore band John Coffey. After ten years, John Coffey quit at their peak and David withdrew himself from making music, but something started itching again. He found one of the most talented Dutch guitarists in Ruben Lisman, and they wrote songs together for a year. They then found the rest of the band in the hardcore scene from the south of the country.
A first 7” ('
Crawl in Pieces') was released in November 2021 on Snowstar Records, showing their already signature sound that rampages from grunge to punk to post-hardcore. Two songs that are representative for their
eponymous debut album which soon followed, reminiscent of Basement and Touché Amoré, but also of Foo Fighters and Soundgarden. A sound that fills a gap in the Dutch band scene that had to be filled for years.
This sound had to be made and these frustrations had to be sung out loud, whether it's about the dairy industry or religion. But above all, the Beachdog audience should walk away from a show wanting more.
