Ferret Music
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. 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,
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 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. 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.
Past artists
- 36 Crazyfists
- A Life Once Lost
- A Static Lullaby
- All Chrome
- Annotations of an Autopsy
- Blood Has Been Shed
- Boris The Blade
- Boys Night Out
- Burnt by the Sun
- blessthefall
- Cataract
- Chimaira
- Dead Hearts
- Disembodied
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Elysia
- Eternal Lord
- Every Time I Die
- For the Love of...
- Foxy Shazam
- From Autumn to Ashes
- Full Blown Chaos
- Funeral for a Friend
- Gwen Stacy
- Harvest
- Heavy Heavy Low Low
- Hellmouth
- In Flames
- Ice Nine Kills
- Johnny Truant
- Killswitch Engage
- Knights of the Abyss
- Luddite Clone
- Ligeia
- LoveHateHero
- Lower Definition
- Madball
- Martyr A.D.
- Maylene and the Sons of Disaster
- Misery Signals
- NORA
- Poison the Well
- Remembering Never
- Revolution Mother
- Scarlet
- See You Next Tuesday
- Shadows Fall
- Skycamefalling
- Suicide Note
- The Banner
- The Break
- The Bronx
- The Hottness
- The Rise
- Torn Apart
- Twelve Tribes
- Union
- Underneath the Gun
- Upon Disfigurement
- xBishopx
- Waking the Cadaver
- Zao
S.O.A.R. artists
- Against the Flood
- Ageless Oblivion
- Annotations of an Autopsy
- 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
- Belie My Burial
- Chaos Blood
- Chase the Sunset
- Clone the Fragile
- Dignity Dies First
- Forever Never
- Impending Doom
- Implosive Disgorgence
- Knights of the Abyss
- Last House on the Left
- Horror of the Sky
- My Cross to Bare
- Rose Funeral
- The Adept
- The Irish Front
- The Partisan Turbine
- The Plasmarifle
- The Red Death
- The Red Shore
- Titans
- Viatrophy
- Wecamewithbrokenteeth
- Whitechapel