Ferret Music
Ferret Music is an independent record label, founded in 1996. The label is owned in part by NORA's vocalist, Carl Severson, and in part by Philadelphian artist manager Paul Conroy, and based in West Windsor Township, New Jersey.[1] Ferret recently started an imprint called New Weathermen Records.
Warner Music Group's Independent Label Group acquired a stake in Ferret Music in August, 2006,[2] and as a result is currently distributed by Independent Label Group.
As of September 12, 2007, Ferret partnered 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. In February 18th, 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]
Artists
Past Artists
- A Life Once Lost (Active, on Season of Mist)
- A Static Lullaby (Active, on Fearless Records)
- All Chrome (Status unknown)
- Burnt by the Sun (Active, on Relapse Records)
- blessthefall (Active, on Fearless Records)
- Cataract (Active, on Metal Blade Records)
- Chimaira (Active, on E1 Music)
- Dead Hearts(Disbanded)
- Disembodied (Disbanded)
- Elysia (Disbanded)
- Eternal Lord (Disbanded)
- Every Time I Die (Active, with Epitaph Records)
- For the Love of... (Status unknown)
- From Autumn to Ashes (On Indefinite Hiatus)
- Full Blown Chaos (active on Ironclad Recordings)
- Funeral for a Friend (Active, with Distiller Records (UK) Good Fight Records (US))
- Gwen Stacy (Disbanded, with Solid State Records)
- Harvest (Disbanded)
- Heavy Heavy Low Low (Active, with Twelve Gauge Records)
- In Flames (Active, with Nuclear Blast Records)
- Johnny Truant (Disbanded)
- Killswitch Engage (Active, with Roadrunner Records)
- Luddite Clone (Disbanded)
- Ligeia (Active again after year-long hiatus. Unsigned)
- Lower Definition (Active, unsigned)
- Madball (Active, on Good Fight Music)
- Martyr A.D. (Disbanded)
- NORA (Active, with Trustkill Records)
- Poison the Well (On hiatus)
- Scarlet (Disbanded)
- See You Next Tuesday(On Indefinite Hiatus)
- Skycamefalling (Disbanded)
- The Banner (Disbanded)
- The Break (Disbanded)
- The Bronx (Active, with White Drugs)
- The Hottness (Disbanded)
- The Rise (Active, with ReIgnition Records)
- Torn Apart (Active, unsigned)
- Twelve Tribes (Disbanded)
- Underneath the Gun (Disbanded)
- xBishopx (Active, with Dead Truth Recordings)
- 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
- Betraeus
- Cult Cinema
- Dead Beyond Buried
- Demoraliser
- Diskreet
- Dripback
- Dyscarnate
- Eradication
- Heart in Hand
- Ingested
- 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 (active, with Ferret Music)
- Last House on the Left (Active, Unsigned)
- My Cross to Bare (disbanded)
- Rose Funeral (active, with Metal Blade Records)
- The Adept (active, unsigned)
- The Irish Front (active, unsigned)
- 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
Martens, Todd, "Ferret's New Partner" Billboard, 00062510, 9/2/2006, Vol. 118, Issue 35
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