Ruin Nation Records

13/01/2026

❤️‍🔥 Thirty-three years of helping little known bands become totally obscure!❤️‍🔥

11/01/2026

03/01/2026

One more tribute to an old friend because today, twenty years ago he left this planet and entered a galaxy far far away...only 33 years old and after a long battle with his ghosts.

I miss you Kök, and your nihilistic and out of place humor so much... I remember when we were snowed in for days on our old Farm-project and we went on a drunken stroll and you just said  “...and now imagine all this snow is just Poo” ... haha. Being negative without you is just half as much fun.

Hope you rest in happiness. Marc “KØK” Köhler (1973-2006)

02/01/2026

... aaand here we go again and 2026 is here. The idiot kids in the neighborhood really outdid themselves this year in stupidity and unnecessary fireworks.

Sleep tight to Massimo of TEAR ME DOWN and Petesy Burns of STALAG-17 and WARZONE COLLECTIVE (+ various other Irish Anarcho Punk Bands)...

Here’s a photo of me at the same time last year on my way to the Warehouse and in front of the inner-city canal. I usually stop there  and watch the boats and ships for a while. 

I feel i have some explanation to do as i got a few messages regarding me mentioning my burn out in my last post. I don’t really like to talk about private stuff on social media too much. But, that „burn out“ diagnosis isn’t really news and basically already from early 2025. In fact the opinion that I sail right into a burn out came already in 2024 due to my sleep deprivation and incapability to get stuff done anymore. As I’m stubborn AF I just neglected it entirely until it wasn’t possible to neglect it anymore. A „Bur-out“ usually comes with some sort of a depression. I think I’m on a good way and picking up that job was a good decision because I don’t have to worry about paying my rent anymore.

I never had the intention of living from the Distribution and Label. But when Kleister (of Skuld Releases) passed away, there was all of a sudden two labels to take care of and the first couple of years looked quite ok. But with declining record sales etc... it got really really difficult to even bring up enough money paying for the warehouse, let alone my own place .. .etc... I guess you know where this all leads in the end. Burn out... etc etc.

If I now only manage to navigate my time schedule a bit better, the future looks bright again but it’s still a rocky road. I’m not 15 anymore but 51... gargh!!!

Anyway, despite everything ...

Happy 2026 and may the farce be with us ... always!

31/12/2025

Alright ... 2025 sucked big time and somehow I have very little hope that 2026 gonna be any better. I guess it’s gonna be much sh***er, but then again I am a notorious pessimist. 2025 brought me, apart from feeling ashamed for the german left-wing and more dead friends, my very own Burn-out diagnosis combined with a depression, ...i also got screwed by my old Band and I broke up with my new partner after just one year of going out. I had to start working a sh*t-job for sh*t-money in order to survive and... ok, ok, ok,... the last one is a bit snobbish. I’m sorry. Well, so, yes! 2025 wasn’t really as colorful and 2026 is just gonna go one step further i guess. One step further from S**t = S**tter... know what i mean?

2025 only saw one release... the A.F.K. „Gift“ 7“ ... which i’m super happy about. Great Band and great folks...  - I guess you can say that I’m still not giving up. 2026 will mark 33 Years of Ruin Nation Distribution and 30 years since I released my first slap of vinyl. It was all Cassettes prior to that. To celebrate, I hope I can finish the final batch of releases already laid out and in progress as well as clearing the distro debts and closing the Distribution as well as the Warehouse (expensive!) - The HIATUS „Old Fashioned Ways Of Doom“ DoLP, an anthology of collected 7“ and compilation tracks,shall make the start in early 2026. Working on the artwork as we speak. Hope you’re all having a smooth start into 2026 and don’t take my negative banter too serious. Thanks for the support and see you hopefully next year! Kudos to the heroines and heroes of CADUS, SEA WATCH (and Friends), Doctors without Borders and all the other folks who try to make an impact and a big F-YOU to the idiots spending thousands of Euro for ridiculous firecrackers in times of post-war-traumas and sensible animal ears.

21/12/2025

It’s that time of the year again when everyone in social media circle jerk land pop’s out their top ten listings... since I’m no better, I, ... of course, have one as well!

2025 was a great year for great releases from fantastic artists of all sorts and I’m sorry if I disappoint the crustie-punx and d-beat faction here  f or not including the obvious numerous new comings of the crust-christ but honestly to me they sound too much the same to stick with it. Bands PSYCH-WAR delivered a powerful Album for sure but ... somehow sounds just too familiar. And i still haven’t heard HOME FRONT haha.

Anyway, without further ado here’s my 20 golden greats of 2025 thanks to and courtesy of:


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and thank to Mike of for always delivering new interesting bands and music via his podcast.

Enjoy the rest of this year. Freedom of movement for all people. No one is free until everyone is free and don’t forget: Punk forever…forever drunk. Just kidding. 🥴

20/12/2025

6th of June I posted the warehouse closing action... Half a year later, big surprise, it’s still on and far from closed - In July I took on a Job as a postie and since then it’s been a struggle to keep up with emails, orders, and all. I get better at it but it‘ s still quite a struggle coming home after 8 hours on your feet delivering letters. - Anyway... the „warehouse closing“ is continuing over the holidays and into 2026.

Free standard shipping for big orders (Germany and EU only...sorry)... details by email as usual. All proceedings will go towards outstanding invoices and the likes. Thanks.

PS: Normal Prices will resume 2nd of January. Email me if you wanna start a pile. Shipping to the US again for smaller orders but can end up pricey. Get in touch.

Artwork nicked from a 1998 Gigflyer by Basti. Hope you’re doing well mate.
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17/12/2025

„Never Mind The Na**lm ... Here’s SORE THROAT“ was most likely the first Crust punk Album i ever listened to. And for a fact the first one i ever owned. - Story behind this chance meeting was:
My, then, best buddy G. was really jealous of my „Never Mind The Bollocks“ S*x Pistols LP as he got the Clash „London Calling“ which we considered ok but not as good. This must have been in 1988 or 1989. We were like 14 or 15 years old. G‘s older sister had a boyfriend in Berlin and bought G. a copy of „NMTB“ at WOM (World Of Music = big Music Store, Distributor!)... we sat together with some Faxe beers and listened to his records and as soon as he put on his allegedly „NMTB“... we were in total confusion about what we heard. Short, grunt, noise… turned out that: As G‘s Sister only remembered the cover art, she accidentally got him SORE THROATS „Never Mind the Na**lm“ instead and he hated it so much that he gave me the Album as a gift because i thought it was pure GENIUS… hahaha. So, yeah i had a laugh and can blame it all on that very moment. It would take the whole 1989 and I discovered much more of wonderful crustcore such as the DOOM „DoublePeel Session“ cassette via AM Music...(and be shocked and disappointed about ENGLISH DOGS „where legend begins“ album which i ordered at the same time… ouf, what a bummer that was!) and the ENT /FILTHKICK split LP.

10/11/2025

Photo cap from an early TOURETTE SYNDROME gig at the „Battle of the Bands 2004“ Fest at the G18 featuring a handful of (at the time) newer Bremen Punk Bands from the DIY anarcho underground. Fritze (spiky behind me) and myself also performed with 14“GENERAL that same night but i think 14“G was still under the moniker „THE RANTERS“ named after some sort of „medieval punks“ … good times! The G18 was one of the oldest Bremen Squats until we collectively bought the House with massive help from the „Rental-house-Syndicate“.
Just a few weeks ago some people squatted a house in Bremen Neustadt and managed to stay a little over two weeks. It might sound like a short time but with the ongoing repression here it‘s almost impossible to squat anymore but important to keep the flame going.

anyway… for you Kids: TOURETTE SYNDROME was a band made up by Tati, Fritze, Kautschuk, Ballo and me….playing old school thrashpunkwhatever.

Crappy capture but very little from this Band is documented.

09/11/2025

Spend my Saturday evening assembling the A.F.K. „Gift“ 7“ E.P and today getting all pre-orders ready for shipping tomorrow morning.

There’s a few copies of the Ltd. white vinyl version still available! Link in bio!

Three years after their “Another Pair of Eyes” LP got released, Hamburg’s steamroller-punk faction returns with a new 4 track 7” EP. While still delivering their household brand of head splitting raw Hardcore PUNK, you also might discover a slight departure from the usual A.F.K. if you’re familiar with the band. But don’t you worry... since this world has turned into an even more blood soaked and hopeless gibbering mess as it already was, we’re still going full on cave-punk style here... just as you expect!

These 4 songs will only be available on this vinyl 7” until further notice and is limited to a 300 press run.

70 copies on White Vinyl + + + 30 copies on Yellow Vinyl (exclusive available from AFK gigs only!) and 200 copies on black vinyl.

Comes with Lyrics sheet/mini poster including Artwork by Andi AFK. Cover Art by Juan Ospina (MURO, FINAL, AYUCABA). Recorded & Mixed at Kuz Karnak, June 2025 by Felix Margraf.

(LINK IN BIO)

03/11/2025

Happy 52th Birthday to Marc “KØK” Köhler… best friend, incredible artist, raging loony and Bass player of the mighty WORLD CHAOS. Miss you a lot, especially these days. Wherever your spirit roams… have fun and rest in happiness!
(1973 - 2006)

02/11/2025

Ok, and one more for the Algorithm because FB/INSTA told me that my ratings are crap...still! Can you believe it? Well, I think that goes both ways, anyway: Here’s what we call an Oakland/Bremen-stew or BOB-Stew (you decide) : Taken at the Cross Stitched Eyes first US Tour send off BBQ 15.05.2010 at someones house.

Recipe consists of (left to right):  one Dino, one Jake, one Nina, one Jason, one Pete Roadie and one idiot in the middle! Peace! Miss you!