Ferret Music

Ferret Music
Ferret Music
Parent company	Warner Music Group
Founded	1996
Founder	Carl Severson
Defunct	2010
Distributor(s)	Fontana, eOne Music, ADA
Genre	Metalcore, post-hardcore, hardcore punk, heavy metal
Country of origin	U.S.
Location	West Windsor, New Jersey
Official website	www.ferretstyle.com

Ferret Music was an American independent record label turned Warner Music Group subsidiary, founded in 1996. The label is owned by metalcore band NORA's vocalist, Carl Severson, and based in West Windsor, New Jersey.^[1] Ferret recently started an imprint called New Weathermen Records. Warner Music Group's Alternative Distribution Alliance acquired a stake in Ferret Music in August, 2006,^[2] and as a result is currently distributed by Fontana Distribution, Alternative Distribution Alliance and eOne Music.

As of September 12, 2007, Ferret partnered with an uprising extreme metal and hardcore punk label out of the UK, Siege of Amida Records (S.O.A.R.). S.O.A.R will retain A&R responsibilities. On February 18, 2010 Carl Severson and his business partner at Ferret and ChannelZERO, Paul Conroy, announced their departure from the company to start Good Fight Entertainment, a management company with music and sports divisions along with a new record label.^[3] Ferret's official website was last updated in 2009, adding to speculation that the label is defunct. According to Scott Mellinger, lead guitarist for Zao, Ferret Records sold to Warner Music while Severson went on to start Good Fight.^[4]

Past artists

36 Crazyfists (disbanded)
A Life Once Lost (disbanded)
A Static Lullaby (active, unsigned)
All Chrome (disbanded)
Annotations of an Autopsy (active, unsigned)
Blood Has Been Shed (disbanded)
Boris The Blade (disbanded)
Boys Night Out (active, with Good Fight Music)
Burnt by the Sun (disbanded)
blessthefall (active, on Rise Records)
Cataract (disbanded)
Chimaira (active)
Dead Hearts (disbanded)
Disembodied (active, on Good Fight Music)
The Devil Wears Prada (active, on Solid State Records)
Elysia (disbanded)
Eternal Lord (disbanded)
Every Time I Die (disbanded)
For the Love of... (active)
Foxy Shazam (active, with I.R.S. Records)
From Autumn to Ashes (active, unsigned)
Full Blown Chaos (active on Ironclad Recordings)
Funeral for a Friend
Gwen Stacy (disbanded)
Harvest (active)
Heavy Heavy Low Low (active, unsigned)
Hellmouth (active, on Paper Plastick Records)
In Flames (active, with Nuclear Blast Records)
Ice Nine Kills (active, with Fearless Records)
Johnny Truant (disbanded)
Killswitch Engage (active, with Metal Blade Records)
Knights of the Abyss (on hiatus since 2012)
Luddite Clone (disbanded)
Ligeia (on hiatus)
LoveHateHero (disbanded)
Lower Definition (disbanded)
Madball (active, with Good Fight Music)
Martyr A.D. (disbanded)
Maylene and the Sons of Disaster (active, Independent)
Misery Signals (active, with Basick Records)
NORA (active, with Good Fight Music)
Poison the Well (on hiatus)
Remembering Never (active, with Dead Truth Recordings)
Revolution Mother (on hiatus)
Scarlet (on hiatus)
See You Next Tuesday (Active, Good Fight Music)
Shadows Fall (on hiatus)
Skycamefalling (disbanded)
Suicide Note (disbanded)
The Banner (active, with Good Fight Music)
The Break (disbanded)
The Bronx (active, with White Drugs)
The Hottness (disbanded)
The Rise (active, with ReIgnition Records)
Torn Apart (disbanded)
Twelve Tribes (disbanded)
Union (disbanded)
Underneath the Gun (disbanded)
Upon Disfigurement (on hiatus)
xBishopx (disbanded)
Waking the Cadaver (active, with Unique Leader Records)
Zao (active, currently unsigned)

S.O.A.R. artists

Against the Flood
Ageless Oblivion
Annotations of an Autopsy (Also on Nuclear Blast)
Ancient Ascendant
Armed for Apocalypse
As They Burn
Awaken Demons
Belial
Betraeus
Cult Cinema
Dead Beyond Buried
Demoraliser
Diskreet
Dripback
Dyscarnate
Eradication
Heart in Hand
Ingested
Malevolence
Martyr Defiled
The Breathing Process
The Bridal Procession
TRC
Waking The Cadaver

Past S.O.A.R Artists

A Girl a Gun a Ghost (disbanded)
Belie My Burial (active, unsigned)
Chaos Blood (disbanded)
Chase the Sunset (formerly known as Endurance of Hate)(Active, Unsigned)
Clone the Fragile (disbanded)
Dignity Dies First (disbanded)
Forever Never (active, Unsigned)
Impending Doom (active, with eONE music)
Implosive Disgorgence (disbanded)
Knights of the Abyss (disbanded)
Last House on the Left (Active, Unsigned)
My Cross to Bare (reformed 2021)
Rose Funeral (active, with Metal Blade Records)
The Adept (active, unsigned)
The Irish Front (disbanded)
The Partisan Turbine (disbanded)
The Plasmarifle (active, unsigned)
The Red Death (disbanded)
The Red Shore (disbanded)
Titans (disbanded)
Viatrophy (disbanded)
Wecamewithbrokenteeth (disbanded in 2008, reformed in 2009 and then disbanded again in 2010)
Whitechapel (active, with Metal Blade Records)

References

^ "Nora's Frontman Is Sick Of 50 Cent; Plus Dethklok, Amenta & More News That Rules, In Metal File". Mtv.com. Archived from the original on March 20, 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
^ Warner Music Group, Archive.today
^ "Ferret Music Owners Exit Label, Form Good Fight EntertainmentMetal Insider". Metalinsider.net. 18 February 2010. Retrieved 9 October 2020.
^ MetalSucks (2021-04-13). "Zao Guitarist Explains Why Ferret Music Albums Haven't Been Reissued". MetalSucks. Retrieved 2024-08-07.

Other sources

Warner Music Group news release August 7, 2006
Martens, Todd, "Ferret's New Partner", Billboard, 00062510, September 2, 2006, Vol. 118, Issue 35

External links

Official website

[1] "Nora's Frontman Is Sick Of 50 Cent; Plus Dethklok, Amenta & More News That Rules, In Metal File". Mtv.com. Archived from the original on March 20, 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2020.

[2] Warner Music Group, Archive.today

[3] "Ferret Music Owners Exit Label, Form Good Fight EntertainmentMetal Insider". Metalinsider.net. 18 February 2010. Retrieved 9 October 2020.

[4] MetalSucks (2021-04-13). "Zao Guitarist Explains Why Ferret Music Albums Haven't Been Reissued". MetalSucks. Retrieved 2024-08-07.

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