Ferret Music, the influential independent label known for shaping the landscape of 2000's metalcore, born of a love for punk, hardcore and metal, is continuing its return with two videos from their first wave of signings, BORE and Wounded Touch. These two releases spotlight the label's next chapter, underscoring the fierce and forward-thinking energy that both bands bring to the storied imprint's formidable roster.
Capturing the Long Island outfit's sharp-edged approach, BORE's new video for "Feed" arrives a stark black and white performance video, framed though a television screen motif. Reinforcing the track's themes of alienation, control, and social conditioning, the brand new video for "Feed" turns its focus toward the psychological toll of living inside systems that constantly demand compliance and dilute individuality.
Featuring Jack Murray of 156/Silence, Wounded Touch's "A Weapon In God's Country" channels a similar sense of urgency through a more scorched, confrontational lens. Rooted in imagery of resistance, collapse, and the tension of human conviction and dehumanizing systems, the video for "A Weapon In God's Country" frames its fury as a form of survival, pushing back against forces of assimilation, control, and moral decay with a defiant sense of purpose.
To mark a triumphant return, Ferret Music is launching a series of vinyl releases that revisit key titles from its catalog while beginning to fold in select releases from Good Fight Music, marking a broader evolution of the label's catalog moving forward.
Among the first wave are two landmark Ferret Music titles, the first being Remembering Never's "God Save Us", available on vinyl for the first time with its original artwork and an additional track, arriving in celebration of the album's 20th anniversary and honoring the legacy of Peter "Mean Pete" Kowalsky. It will be followed by Torn Apart's "The Fifty-Ninth Session" EP, originally only available on CD, newly remixed and remastered by guitarist Drew Lamond and pressed to vinyl for the first time as a one-sided 12 inch.
Also included are two releases originally issued via Good Fight Music, marking the beginning of select titles transitioning into the Ferret Music catalog.
Old Wounds' "Suffering Spirit" returns as a special anniversary pressing, bringing the long sold-out release back into circulation and reaffirming its place as one of the most vital releases in modern metallic hardcore, capturing the band's evolution into a darker, more haunting sound. Rounding out the releases, Racetraitor's "Creation and the Timeless Order of Things" arrives with vocal additions from various figures across the scene (Dennis Lyxzén of Refused, Tim Kinsella of Joan of Arc/Cap'n Jazz, Stan Liszewaki of Terminal Nation, Sanket Lama of Chepang), as the band reemerges for a run of live dates this summer.
