Ruin Nation Records

30/09/2025

23 year old me with AOB (Anger Of Bacteria) playing the Südanlage in Gießen, Germany 1997. - Legendary gig with HEADACHE from Leeds…what crazy evening. Unfortunately almost no photos exists from the HEADACHE set because the whole place was in motion and photos were „analog“.

Tack så mycket Joakim Bergman … (from SCUM BRIGADE, DIASPORA, YUPPIECRUSHER and so many other great Bands from the nineties and really 2K’s) … for sending me these photos - last one is the only useable pic from the HEADACHE set I fear.

28/09/2025

More blasts from the past… COLD DEATH was a Deathrock/Post-Punk/Gothpunk Band I was playing Bass in along with friends from BOMBENALARM, DOOMTOWN and (nowadays) a Band named (DOLCH). - Fun times… like CSE a bit early for the Postpunk/Deathrock revival at that time. We only recorded a Demo which is still streamable and downloadable via the RNR band camp. Here’s the 4 piece version of COLD DEATH (without Manuel) playing Gießerstraße in Leipzig 27.02.2009 together with INSUICIETY, INFEKCJA and IMAGES. Manuel still played guitar with the latter and joined COLD DEATH shortly after on second guitar. Sometimes I’m still dreaming of a short reunion for a laugh... or a few laughs.

-punk

26/09/2025

Very first LIVE Line-up from our first tour in 2007. Here with a (very poor) attempt to do a promo shot… Left to right: Tim, Kris, Jason, me and Trotsky on the steps of Montagne de Bueren in Liége, Belgium.

Photo by Nina.

22/09/2025

SOOPHIE NUN SQUAD (US) at the Friese, Bremen 13.09.03 together with F*CKING HELL 666 (Duisburg) and GHOSTMICE (also US) - don’t remember much about the opening Bands apart from FH 666 being dressed in Sexy-nun outfits and being really weird and the whole SOOPHIE NUN SQUAD lot just looked like a “free-box” has come to life and is playing punk rock and dancing and jumping continuously around. They where fantastic in inciting the audience to join in their live-show and the whole room was jumping and dancing along their sing a long punk rock.

Poster art drawn by Armsrock (aka Asbjorn Skou)

# ghostmice

21/09/2025

KORT PROSESS (Oslo) playing at the Friese, Bremen 29.08.97 together with CRESS (UK)  - 28 Years ago at the FREIZI FRIESENSTR. (aka DIE FRIESE) in Bremen… A chance meeting with one of the most sophisticated Norwegian hardcore Punk bands i‘ve ever seen. Undefeatable and striking power .  Top fuel for my undying love and appreciation for Norwegian punk! A band forever in my heart (and on my left arm) … can’t find any music… So here you go with KNUSTE RUTER (Broken Windows). Still my favourite, still ongoing Oslo band. 

CRESS (UK)  just released their “Monuments” LP via Sned’s and Alec’s Flat Earth Records. A sound like the reincarnation of the classic 1980’ties UK anarcho punk sound like FLUX and CRASS meets DOOM.... what a gig

❤️‍🔥

20/09/2025

Digging in old boxes buried in my basement i found a stack of old rehearsal tapes. Most of them from the early 2k consisting of CROSS STITCHED EYES, AOB, IN IRATUS and even ENDROPHOBIA rehearsals. Loads of unheard “versions” of later recorded or ditched material. Loads of funny “blabla” before and after… guess i have a plan for my detox saturday. 😬

14/09/2025

Back from a nice little trip to the countryside not too far from Bremen to celebrate Trotsky’s *  60th Birthday in a circle of old friends from all over the place. Great food, and Trotsky’s very own Scrumpy-Cider... maybe a bit too much from the latter .  At least for me.

Haven’t been to their Farm in a while. Great to see that the famous PUNK ROCK TRAKTOR is still alive and well... sort of.

Thanks Trotsky & Sandra.

Ok, now tired AF... goodnight!

*   Ps: Err...SUBHUMANS UK Drummer... not a resurrected Russian revolutionary! duh!

13/09/2025

More Squat Milada (Prague,CZ) impressions from 2008 to uphold the legend. Band that played was something… sounded like a czech version of meets a car crash into a porzellan shop. Guitarplayer on the right was a massive fan and had a t-shirt, backpatch, buttons of his hero and copied Joes style almost perfectly.
No surprise i had to drink two beers at once to endure so much Clash… gargh.

27/07/2025

Surprise surprise... A.F.K from Hamburg return with a new 4 song 7" EP, hopefully ready in time for the upcoming tour with INFERNO PERSONALE and NÃO end of August.

It's been three years since their "Another Pair of Eyes" LP and the world seemed to have turned into a blood soaked, gibbering mess! - It's time to bring some old school punk rock stomp back and spit and pogo on the warmongering elites!

4 new songs only available on hard vinyl 7" disks and limited to a 300 press run.

Available on their upcoming tour:

27.08 : Mülheim, DE
28.08 : Paris, FR
29.08 : Brest, FR, Ol' Dirty Beat Fest
30.08 : Brest, FR, Ol' Dirty Beat Fest
31.08 : Nantes, FR
01.09 : Lille, FR
02.09 : Ghent, BE

and via Mail-order from: www.dis-tribute.com

PRE-ORDER starts soon(ish)...

TRACK LISTING:
A1 . Gift
A2 . Toter Raum
B1 . Eineinhalb Grad
B2 . Abgrund

https://youtu.be/_5ATA5PfxS8

A.F.K "​Gift"From The Forthcoming 4 song 7" EP​ (BOLLOX 0​66)Available ​September 2025 vinyl only from: Ruin Nation Records (Germany)http://www.dis-tribute...

26/07/2025

PUNTER “Australienation” (Drunken Sailor) got a repress just in time for their short European tour. I know I am getting a bit over the top here but this album hit me by surprise and made it’s way straight to my personal best album of the year charts!

“Punter are back with another barrage of rabid and raucous hits. Still seamlessly straddling the line between proto-punk melodies and hardcore aggression but with even more brass and intensity than before. True resentment and hate for a nation combined with a hard working, Dexie-fuelled tour ethic has led Punter to spit out this jacked up bar brawl of an LP that quite honestly could only have been executed by these three Aussie tearaways. This record will equally scratch the itch of any Radio Birdman fan, as it would a Dead Kennedys fan, while being completely relatable for the young punks of today.” - Bryan Suddaby

Released in Europe via , Australia via .

I have some copies of “Australienation” in stock now as well as a limited amount of PUNTERS’s debut 12” in stock as well... - catch them on the road if you can!

18/07/2025

Woke up to the heartbreaking news that Bill Chamberlain from The Pist ( and Mankind? / Behind Enemy Lines, The Brood etc…) has passed away yesterday. I only meet him a couple of times with BEL and just another sweet gentle giant he was and genuine punk rocker by heart. Rest in punk Bill!
♠️💔
Photo by Al Quint.

19/06/2025

Before messenger, social media and emails became established we used to write loads of letters and postcards. Ordering from a DIY distro usually meant that you call, or send a letter with your order. Include the cash or wait for a return letter. Soaping the stamps was common practice in order to re-use them and save postage. A bit of a risky affair of course...

Anyway, I used to have very avid contact with many friends across the globe. Most of them are still dear friends close to me. 

Since I’m a notorious hoarder of punk-rock memorabilia, I still have all my old correspondence stuffed away in these little wooden boxes... I wish I could find the time to archive them properly. There’s quite some gossip and chitchat among them with some (back then and before) legendary characters. Ok, some of them.