[engl] The second LP by German punk veterans OHL is a lot fatter than their immature debut. The production is much crisper, the singing with its cynical bad news fits the political society. The songs are much more memorable. While OHL aren't really a thrash band, they produce some fast slabs of guitar-heavy power that will really tax your speakers at high volumes (like " Schrei, Schrei " " Warschauer Pakt " or "Belsen"). With "Nie wieder" they certainly have one of the most scathing anti-Nazi songs I've ever come across. OHL have found their command post! Recommended.

[engl] 40 years ago, one of the most important and at the time most controversial sampler in German punkhistory. “Die Deutschen Kommen”. In order not to support a label that is more than questionable with this new edition and yet to honor the 40th anniversary accordingly, a 7" edition limited to 500 pieces will be released on September 3rd, 2022 with the four "Die Deutschen Kommen" classics from OHL under the title "Alles für die Heimat". Comes with linenotes.

[engl] Another classic German punk / hardcore story. First released in 1994 on Impact Records, now released again for the first time, but as a double LP with bonus tracks. Did you hear "The 7th Sign" back then? The power chords at the beginning of "Blind und Taub" or the brutal riffing of "Falsche Demokratie"? "The 7th Sign" contains metallic elements, although it goes without saying that the band's punk-dominated past will not be forgotten. One thing is for sure: The 1994 album is one of the jewels of OHL's discography, not least because of its lyrical content. Four years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the OHL is raging against the old asshole Erich's regime in the GDR. A handful of songs deal with this topic, but OHL doesn't close its eyes to right-wing extremism either. In terms of the lyrics, this is nothing more than logical, OHL also doesn't forget to speak out against ultra-religious maniacs. The music is not overshadowed by the lyrics. OHL present themselves in a well regenerated state. With freshly charged batteries they shoot 18 songs into the crowd and that's almost too much of a good thing. The cover artwork has been completely revised, the result is a beautifully designed gatefold cover with an inside / out design.

[engl] The ultimate appetizer for the the first Skeptix LP and the Oktoberrevolution 12" , comes with Linernotes/ infosheet. The whole comes in a noble fullcolored 300gr.

[engl] In year eleven of the bands existence, they finally fullfil every fans heartwish of a collaboration with one of the most important, most beautiful and most prominent voices in german-speaking punk! You got it: Franny Fränzen (B'schiszn, Telesatan, Sharizza). Brezel Göring did record everything in his pee-ka-bo dungeon in Berlin-Kreuzberg and the only two citizen of honour of Chemnitz, Zomber (Pisse chauffeur) and Jan Kummer (AG Geige) worked on a very beautiful cover artwork. And if this isn't already enough! There is a b-side track aswell and the record was mastered via Melody Men in Texas. Yes, Texas!

[engl] Very first 7" and already an instant classic, RE-Import article, because the US Tour got cancelled

[engl] Debüt EP of the 5 punx from riotlingen, playing classic 80's style Hc-Punk with german lyrics. purple vinyl, limited to 500 hand numbered copies.

[engl] SCHWACH has been around for almost ten years now. In hardcore years that's at least sixty: time to retire, or not? Six years after the first LP, "Kein Bock", and over two years since the last sign of life a split EP with DESARRAIGO from Colombia the band now releases their second album, "Ka?lter". Ten years is a long time, not only for a hardcore band. When SCHWACH s tood in their Berlin rehearsal room for the first time, Donald Trump was only a reality TV star, the most right wing party in the Bundestag was the CSU and the letter combination COVID had no meaning for most of us. The guys in the rehearsal room were different, too. They were younger in some cases, only in their early or midtwenties. Today they are all in their thirties, and the lives they lead are, for most of them, completely different. More work, greater responsibility, less time for what really matters. And that's exactly what "K a?lter" is about. In the album’s twelve songs, SCHWACH talks about the attempt to remain true to oneself and critical of the prevailing conditions in a diverse and multilayered way. The songs deal with political rage as well as personal loss and the strength it can give you when you feel that you are not alone: others feel the same way and are fighting in the same struggles. Be they on the barricades, on a stage, or in front of it. "Punk is still the coolest thing," it says in "Three Chords," the last song of the LP. But punk is more than just that. Punk, as SCHWACH lives it, is also a necessary corrective against the shittiness of the world and a charging cable for the battery of individual resistance. The music is exact ly what hardcore should be today if it wants to be more than cliche? ridden classic rock. At its core SCHWACH still plays nothing less than extremely pissed off youth crew hardcore. But around this core, the band builds something that goes far beyond the b oundaries of standard hardcore. There are midtempo songs, guest vocals from friends from Oslo (Erik, Modern Love), Hamburg (Pan, Bad Affair) and Madrid (Je?sus Acuerdo), and repeatedly genre atypical sound colors. SCHWACH 2022 sounds much more mature th an SCHWACH 2013. Still, the band has not lost an ounce of its uncompromising anger and its exuberant energy. They have become older, maybe even grown up. But they are still exactly the kind of hardcore band that this fucked-up, beautiful world needs.