The founders of Ferret Music — the hardcore label that delivered early releases from Killswitch Interact, Converge, Each Time I Die, Zao and extra — are relaunching the imprint in 2026 and have introduced each a run of upcoming represses and the signing of two new acts: BORE and Wounded Contact.
The information arrives from founder Carl Severson — additionally of New Jersey metalcore outfit Nora — who confirmed Ferret’s upcoming plans. He’d based the imprint within the Nineties, and stuffed their catalogue releases from Converge, ETID, In Flames, The Satan Wears Prada, Poison the Nicely, Madball, Shadows Fall and lots of extra. Warner Music Group assumed management of {the catalogue} in 2010, which led Severson after which Ferret co-owner Paul Conroy to type Good Battle Leisure
Per a press launch, the brand new period of Ferret brings Severson to his hardcore roots “at a time when heavy music is as soon as once more thriving at a grassroots degree that’s pushed by neighborhood, discovery, and a renewed urge for food for authenticity.”
“I began Ferret as a approach to be extra part of hardcore,” he explains in an announcement. “My mates all had expertise and had been in a band (Endeavor) and I needed to do greater than carry issues to contribute to what they had been doing. It was a ardour that become a life and right into a profession.
“For the overwhelming majority of its preliminary existence I labored with my mates, labored with bands we cherished listening to and it was simply actually an journey. We grew and finally noticed behind the scenes and ventured past it. Issues modified. My mates didn’t, and we nonetheless love listening… So right here we’re.”
The brand new signees embrace the Lengthy Island, New York-based BORE, who’ve been collectively since 2018 and most lately delivered the Feral album in 2025.
“Ferret was a label we at all times seemed as much as,” guitarist Danny Kopij provides in an announcement, noting that data like ETID’s Sizzling Rattling! are coded in his group’s collective DNA. “So, to get to be part of the Ferret household, not to mention to get to be right here for the revival is nothing in need of the distinction of a lifetime. Wanting ahead to this subsequent chapter of our band and to get to do it Ferret Type.”
“Most of our childhoods had been formed by the Ferret catalogue, so we’d have been championing this return out of sheer pleasure regardless,” Wounded Contact vocalist Nick Holland provides, additional describing Ferret because the “holy grail label of our youth. “However to as a substitute get to be immediately concerned as boots on the bottom for the return of Ferret and rely ourselves among the many pantheon of style defining data launched beneath that title is a validation that may’t be purchased, traded or diminished.”
Although ETAs on new music from BORE and Wounded Contact are TBD, Ferret Music have introduced a slate of upcoming vinyl represses. This features a twentieth anniversary urgent of metalcore act Remembering By no means’s 2006 album God Save Us. The discharge restores the full-length’s unique art work and provides an additional monitor.
You may pre-order a Revolver-exclusive copy of God Save Us on “Gold/Olive/Black” vinyl, restricted to 250 copies, in our store.
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