O H L (D)

OHL are back and with their latest album, “Brandstifter” (Sunny Bastards Rec, 2023), they’re once again putting their finger on the sore spot, refusing to let any zeitgeist or social sentiment be silenced!
After their successful Japan tour in early 2025, which can now also be read as a tour diary in the current OX Fanzine, the accompanying album “Der Japanfeldzug – live in Tokyo!” will be released next October.

OHL was founded in January 1980 by Deutscher W (German W stands for “German Resistance,” the movement that opposed the Nazi dictatorship during the Third Reich – see Geschwister Scholl / the White Rose) and is a punk band from the very beginning. From the very beginning, the band consistently went its own way and impresses with its uncompromising approach to calling things by their name.

Wild and unconventional, OHL quickly amassed a large fan base and have defied any stereotype for over four decades.
Live, OHL still sets off a loud and heavy firework display, fighting and denouncing every form of political extremism and religious fanaticism… and the only thing they leave behind is scorched earth.

One of the last true punk bands—while others eke out an existence in the watered-down, feel-good mainstream or have settled into trendy German rock, OHL are what they’ve always been: a punk band.

Times are hard. OHL are harder.