Ferret Music

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Ferret Music
Parent company Warner Music Group
Founded 1996
Founder Carl Severson
Distributing label Sony BMG
Genre Metalcore, Grindcore, Deathcore, Hardcore
Country of origin USA
Official website http://www.ferretstyle.com

Ferret Music is an independent record label releasing largely, but not solely, metalcore and post-hardcore albums. It was founded in 1996 and is owned in part by Nora vocalist Carl Severson, and based in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Ferret recently started an imprint called New Weathermen Records.

Warner Music Group acquired a stake in Ferret Music in August, 2006.[1] It is currently distributed through Sony BMG's RED Distribution and will be for the duration of their agreement until 2009.

As of September 12th, 2007, Ferret joined forces with an uprising Death metal/hardcore label out of the UK, Siege Of Amida Records, A.K.A. "S.O.A.R." S.O.A.R will retain A&R responsibilities.

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[edit] S.O.A.R. Artists

  • A Girl, A Gun, A Ghost
  • Annotations Of An Autopsy
  • Chaos Blood
  • Clone The Fragile
  • Dead Beyond Buried
  • Dignity Dies First
  • Diskreet
  • Endurance of Hate
  • Implosive Disgorgence
  • Ingested
  • Knights Of The Abyss
  • Last House On The Left (band)
  • Martriden
  • My Cross To Bare
  • Nefastus Dies
  • Rose Funeral
  • Shadow Law
  • Terminally, Your Aborted Ghost
  • The Adept
  • The Breathing Process
  • The Irish Front
  • The Partisan Turbine
  • (the) Plasmarifle
  • The Red Death
  • The Red Shore
  • Traces
  • Viatrophy
  • wecamewithbrokenteeth

Other bands have had releases through Ferret Music, including

[edit] External links

[edit] References

  1. ^ Warner Music Group.

Martens, Todd, "Ferret's New Partner" Billboard, 00062510, 9/2/2006, Vol. 118, Issue 35

  1. ^ Warner Music Group.

[edit] See also

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