Ferret Music

Ferret Music is an independent record label, founded in 1996 and is owned in part by NORA's vocalist, Carl Severson, and in part by Philly native and artist manager Paul Conroy, and based in West Windsor, New Jersey.^[1] Ferret recently started an imprint called New Weathermen Records.

Warner Music Group acquired a stake in Ferret Music in August, 2006.^[2] It is currently distributed through Sony BMG's RED Distribution and will be for the duration of their agreement until 2009.

As of September 12, 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.

Artists

• 36 Crazyfists
• Blood Has Been Shed
• Annotations Of An Autopsy
• Boys Night Out
• Chimaira
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Foxy Shazam
• Full Blown Chaos
• Hellmouth
• I Am Abomination
• Ice Nine Kills
• Knights Of The Abyss
• LoveHateHero
• Madball
• Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster
• Misery Signals
• Poison The Well
• Remembering Never
• Revolution Mother
• Shadows Fall
• Suicide Note
• Zao

S.O.A.R. Artists

• Annotations of an Autopsy
• The Breathing Process
• Dead Beyond Buried
• Diskreet
• Forever Never
• Impending Doom
• Ingested
• The Irish Front
• Last House on the Left
• (The) Plasmarifle
• Postmortem Promises
• Shadow Law
• Traces
• Viatrophy

Past Artists

• A Life Once Lost
• A Static Lullaby (Active, on Fearless Records)
• All Chrome
• Burnt By The Sun (Active, on Relapse Records)
• blessthefall (Active, on Fearless Records
• Cataract (Active, with Metal Blade Records)
• Dead Hearts(Disbanded 2009)
• Disembodied
• Elysia(Disbanded 2008)
• Eternal Lord(Disbanded 2009)
• Every Time I Die (Active, on Epitaph Records)
• For The Love Of...
• From Autumn To Ashes (On "Indefinite Hiatus" since 2008)
• Funeral for a Friend (Active, on Join Us)
• Gwen Stacy (Active, on Solid State Records)
• Heavy Heavy Low Low (Active, with Twelve Gauge Records)
• In Flames (Active, on Nuclear Blast)
• Johnny Truant(Disbanded 2009)
• Killswitch Engage (Active, with Roadrunner Records)
• Luddite Clone
• Ligeia(Disbanded 2009)
• Lower Definition (Disbanded 2009)
• Martyr A.D. (Disbanded 2005)
• NORA (Active, on Trustkill Records)
• Scarlet (Disbanded)
• See You Next Tuesday("Idefinite Hiatus" 2009)
• Skycamefalling (Disbanded 2003)
• The Banner (Active)
• The Break
• The Bronx (Active, on White Drugs)
• The Hottness (Disbanded 2009)
• The Rise (Active, with ReIgnition Records)
• Torn Apart
• Twelve Tribes(Disbanded 2009)
• Underneath The Gun(Disbanded 2009)
• xBishopx(Active,Dead Truth Recordings)

Past S.O.A.R Artists

• Chaos Blood (Disbanded 2009)
• Glamour of the Kill (Active, On Visible Noise)
• Knights of the Abyss (Active, On Ferret Music)
• Rose Funeral (Active, On Metal Blade Records)
• Whitechapel (Active, On Metal Blade Records)

References

• Warner Music Group news release 8/7/2006

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

External links

• Official site
• Ferret Music on MySpace
• Interview w/ Carl Severson at Lambgoat.com

See also

• List of record labels