Beginnings
Recover
The first steps of Beginnings were made during the summer of 2016 in Berlin when Ville Ronkko (Wasted, I Walk The Line from Finland) started writing songs in the vein of his favorite bands like Husker Du, The Replacements, Rites Of Spring, Pegboy and Jawbreaker. Some time later, a mutual friend introduced him to Raoul Festante who has been singing in various hardcore bands (Veil, I Defy, Salad Days) before. The line-up was completed by the end of 2016 after they met Robert Licznerski, Tilmann Rohlf (both of Resolutions) and Timothy Bassett-Allan (Metro Chucks). Beginnings spent the whole year of 2017 practicing and writing songs and played their first show in Berlin in January 2018. A two-track demo was recorded and self-released digitally in February 2018. The full-length album Recover was recorded and mixed in spring 2018 by Max Power (who also worked with Turbostaat, Beatsteaks and Tocotronic) at Powerbau in Berlin and mastered by Fabian Tormin at Platlin Mastering in Hamburg. Recover will be released on vinyl and digitally October 5, 2018 by Rookie Records and Kidnap Music and will also be released in Finland by Combat Rock Industry and in Poland by Old School Records.