Even voorstellen - RONKER release their most earnest track to date with “Snuff”

We have been teasing the new RONKER record for a while now. On January 30th, you’ll finally be able to hear "Respect The Hustle, I Won’t Be Your Dog Forever”. Today, we’re throwing another single into the world, the most serious one to date, as the band themselves put it:
"The initial plan was to write half of the record completely sober. We mostly succeeded in that effort. Not quite. We noticed that the songs we wrote in those sober sessions had a very distinct nature compared to the more fierce banger-like songs we hammer out when we have some sort of intoxicants in our veins. Snuff is bleak and brutally honest. Detailing how loneliness wraps it's arms around you and smuthers you in nihilism. It was a very cathartic piece to record, we did it in three takes. The vocal recording is a single one-take lifted from the demo. This is the realest we have ever been. It's also the first time we've recorded piano's and brass on a RONKER song, showing a completely different side of our band."

“Snuff” is the follow-up on RONKER’s first two singles “No Sweat” and “Limelighter”, of which the first landed in both the Kerrang! Chart and Metal Hammer’s Best New Metal Songs of The Week.
RONKER - Snuff (Official Video)

About Snuff
“Snuff” is RONKER’s bleakest and earnest track to date, leaving the safety of their fuzz boxes and adopting a broader sonic palet. The result is brooding and genuine song about fighting substance abuse, littered with brass, piano’s and shimmering clean guitars.
Brutaly honest and yet dramatic, “Snuff” bridges the sonic landscape between melancholic indie like The National and the theatrical emo of bands like MCR.
Snuff is RONKER growing up, adopting classic songwriting and thriving doing so.

About the forthcoming album
On sophomore album, "Respect The Hustle, I Won’t Be Your Dog Forever”, RONKER sounds more ambitious than ever. A concept-album about coping mechanisms and the antics of a rock&roll-lifestyle. The band is presenting a more layered and sophisticated sound than its predecessor; the result is a record that is equally shaped by the likes of David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars as it is by Refused or Slayer. Still as aggressive as before, but with a more old-school approach to songwriting with big choruses and even bigger riffage.
Although RONKER likes to profile themselves as pleasant rascals with big hearts full of love, they are not really known for being the happiest kids in school. Now the time has come to bring that anger to the stages again and burn down the expectations with a new batch of big speed-noise songs. Always suffering, forever nervous.
Respect the hustle. Unleash the dogs of war. The RONK is coming. “Respect The Hustle, I Won’t Be Your Dog Forever” is set for release on January 30th!
RONKER will celebrate their release on February 8th with a SOLD OUT show at Ancienne Belgique, Brussels.

RONKER is not the first state-of-the-art speednoise band to ever exist, but they are the first ones to coin the term. Formed in 2020 in the heart of the swamplands of Belgium the band comes naturally weathered and screaming bloody murder.
RONKER’s music can be described as a mix between Danzig-era Misfits and Helmet, equally influenced by the earliest of hardcore-punk and 90’s alternative guitar music.
Since its inception RONKER can mainly be found on the road. Carving out an audience in the most old-school fashion: by playing live. Always visceral, urgent and frantic, RONKER is prime example of being staunchly committed to rock and roll athleticism. Throwing shapes and taking names.

First two singles “Limelighter” and “No Sweat”
RONKER - Limelighter (Official Video)
RONKER - No Sweat (Official Video) - YouTube

Upcoming shows
29/01/2026 - Bastion V, Dendermonde (BE) – try-out
30/01/2026 - De Keldr, Mechelen (BE) – try-out – SOLD OUT
31/01/2026 - De Nachtwacht, Tielt (BE) – try-out – SOLD OUT       
08/02/2026 - Release Show @ Ancienne Belgique, Brussels (BE) – SOLD OUT
10/02/2026 - Supersonic, Paris (FR)
27/02/2026 - Altstadt, Eindhoven (NL)
06/03/2026 - Sønderborghus, Sønderborg (DK) – NEW
07/03/2026 - Paradiso, Amsterdam (NL)
14/03/2026 - L’Entrepot, Arlon (BE)
28/03/2026 - Terneuzen On Fire, Terneuzen (NL)
24/04/2026 -  Ramsgate Music Hall, Ramsgate (UK) – NEW
25/04/2026 - The Lexington, London (UK)
09/05/2026 - Get Out Of My Garage Fest, Genk (BE) – NEW
15/05/2026 - Rock Affligem, Affligem (BE) – NEW
16/05/2026 - Sonic Whip, Nijmegen (NL)
22/05/2026 - Gladiolen, Olen (BE)
08/08/2026 - Alcatraz Festival, Kortrijk (BE)
16/08/2026 - Dynamo Metalfest, Eindhoven (NL)
More dates TBA

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