Wounded Touch

Ferret Music is back. The influential 2000s hardcore and metalcore label has relaunched in 2026 under original founder Carl Severson — who also runs Good Fight Entertainment — roughly 16 years after he departed when Warner Music took control of the imprint. “I started Ferret as a way to be more a part of hardcore,” Severson said of the return. “So here we are.”

To mark the revival, the label has announced its first two signings — Bore and Wounded Touch — alongside a run of anniversary vinyl reissues from its back catalog.

Bore are a Long Island mathcore band built on Converge, Every Time I Die and Botch worship, whose debut LP Feral (2025) turns modern decay into eleven tracks of lurching, blown-out chaos — the single “Deadbed” is a fine way in. “Ferret was a label we always looked up to,” said guitarist Danny Kopij. “To get to be here for the revival is nothing short of the honor of a lifetime.”

Wounded Touch, a Michigan metallic-hardcore unit, arrive off their well-received 2025 full-length A Vivid Depiction of Collapse. Vocalist Nick Holland called Ferret “the holy grail label of our youth,” describing the signing as “a validation that can’t be bought, traded or diminished.”

The relaunch also brings a slate of reissues: Remembering Never’s God Save Us (a 20th-anniversary pressing honoring late vocalist Peter Kowalsky), Torn Apart’s newly remixed and remastered The Fifty-Ninth Session EP, Old Wounds’ Suffering Spirit, and Racetraitor’s Creation and the Timeless Order of Things.