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The founders of Ferret Music — the hardcore label that delivered early releases from Killswitch Engage, Converge, Every Time I Die, Zao and more — are relaunching the imprint in 2026 and have announced both a run of upcoming represses and the signing of two new acts: BORE and Wounded Touch. The news arrives from founder Carl Severson — also of New Jersey metalcore outfit Nora — who confirmed Ferret’s upcoming plans. He’d founded the imprint in the Nineties, and filled their catalogue releases from Converge, ETID, In Flames, The Devil Wears Prada, Poison the Well, Madball, Shadows Fall and many more. Warner Music Group assumed control of the catalogue in 2010, which led Severson and then Ferret co-owner Paul Conroy to form Good Fight Entertainment Per a press release, the new era of Ferret brings Severson to his hardcore roots “at a time when heavy music is once again thriving at a grassroots level that is driven by community, discovery, and a renewed appetite for authenticity.” “I started Ferret as a way to be more a part of hardcore,” he explains in a statement. “My friends all had talent and were in a band (Endeavor) and I wanted to do more than carry things to contribute to what they were doing. It was a passion that turned into a life and into a career. “For the vast majority of its initial existence I worked with my friends, worked with bands we loved listening to and it was just honestly an adventure. We grew and eventually saw behind the curtain and ventured beyond it. Things changed. My friends didn’t, and we still love listening… So here we are.” The new signees include the Long Island, New York-based BORE, who have been together since 2018 and most recently delivered the Feral album in 2025. Ferret was a label we always looked up to,” guitarist Danny Kopij adds in a statement, noting that records like ETID’s Hot Damn! are coded in his group’s collective DNA. “So, to get to be a part of the Ferret family, let alone to get to be here for the revival is nothing short of the honor of a lifetime. Looking forward to this next chapter of our band and to get to do it Ferret Style. “Most of our childhoods were shaped by the Ferret catalogue, so we’d have been championing this return out of sheer excitement regardless,” Wounded Touch vocalist Nick Holland adds, further describing Ferret as the “holy grail label of our youth. “But to instead get to be directly involved as boots on the ground for the return of Ferret and count ourselves among the pantheon of genre defining records released under that name is a validation that can’t be bought, traded or diminished.” Though ETAs on new music from BORE and Wounded Touch are TBD, Ferret Music have announced a slate of upcoming vinyl represses. This includes a 20th anniversary pressing of metalcore act Remembering Never s 2006 album God Save Us. The release restores the full-length’s original artwork and adds an extra track. You can pre-order a Revolver-exclusive copy of God Save Us on “Gold/Olive/Black” vinyl, limited to 250 copies, in our shop.

Founder Carl Severson is back in charge.

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Here at Revolver, we re always on the hunt for new songs to bang our heads to — indeed, it s a big part of our jobs. With that in mind, here are the tracks released this week in deathcore, black metal, goth rock and more that have been on heavy rotation at Revolver HQ. For your listening pleasure, we ve also compiled the songs in an ever-evolving Spotify playlist. Chat Pile Deep Blue Though Chat Pile said they were channeling the “fake Led Zeppelin” vibes of English rocker Robin Trower on their new single, we feel like the Oklahoman noiseniks might be putting us on a bit with that comparison. Rather than let the good times roll with cocksure bluesy swagger, “Deep Blue” harnesses dire, detuned, avalanche-triggering sludge lines. Vocalist Ray Busch is existentially deflated, exhausted by technology and frustrated by the false narrative we create for ourselves as we “move deeper into screens.” Maybe that emptiness lines up with the lines of Trower’s “Lonely is the Night,” after all. Hulder View From Nemeton” We’re days away from summer and the sun is only getting brighter, yet gloom-casting Pacific Northwest black-metal duo Hulder are here to remind you that living in Washington State through the rest of the year can feel like having a soggy gray curtain drawn over your eyes. That said, their “View From Nemeton” is looking pretty good to us. A vicious vista of blast-manic drums and blistering trills flood the front-end of the epic cut, though it gets down right jubilant in the power-swung guitar solo section. Imminence The Sword That Never Bends Imminence’s new single is forged in steely screams, iron-wrought riffage and darkly anthemic melodies that cleave through the speakers like the mighty Excalibur. Even so, it’s still a damn delight when vocalist Eddie Berg brings his violin bow out of the scabbard to supply a few sweeter lines to this otherwise brawny beater. The Swedish band s first single for Sumerian Records arrived with a medieval music video full of sword-swinging battles and sorcerous showdowns, apparently teasing the visual aesthetic behind their next album. Whatever pops up next, if it’s anything like “The Sword That Never Bends,” it’s sure to be magical. Madball Tethered “Tethered” follows the dub-lite and anthemic rock explorations of last month’s single “Rebel Kids” with tried, tested and true NYHC gusto. In other words, Madball are bringing tough-as-leather riffs and cement-shattering grooves to the table, while vocalist Freddy Cricien mean-mugs on the mic about hard-knock livin’ on the “savage streets” of New York. “News flash, I m still here,” the singer shouts on the track. And, indeed, Madball deliver a veteran’s beatdown here — old man strength, if you will. To paraphrase Cricien s latest street-wise tale of perseverance, we re psyched Madball are “still on this wild-ass ride.” Marilyn Manson Exit Wound “I m the one. The godforsaken one.” Marilyn Manson is a veritable downer Dr. Doolittle on this first taste of his impending and long-awaited One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2, finding himself encircled by a pack of ravenous vultures and leeches. It’s the shock rocker that delivers the beastliest blow by song’s end, as he lets out an animalistic scream above a brooding fracas of slinky hi-hat grooves and see-sawing industrial riffage. There’s a line in here about swallowing a grenade, perhaps an unintended allusion to how the rest of the record could pop off big when it lands in the summer. Rev3rent - Last One Here Rev3rent’s Josh Bailey Guard is on a tear throughout his deathcore group’s ruthless new song, smearing viscera on the walls of your mind with a series of brutal screeches about “disfiguring your innocence.” From the speed pill-snorting blast sections and lightning-speed hammer-on harmonies, to the bone-snapping moshes, to the subsonic bass drops, a no-holds-barred savagery rattles each second of “Last One Here.” Filled with hate and high-energy depravity, it’s a killer next step for Rev3rent.

A duo of NYHC bands, Madball and Combust, will hit the road this summer for a 6-date tour mainly seeing the pair hit mostly Canadian dates.By then, Madball will be supporting their 10th full length release, Not Your...

Tethered.

Hardcore purveyors Madball have released a new single, "Tethered", as part of their next long player Not Your Kingdom, due out July 24, 2026 via Nuclear Blast Records. The accompanying clip was filmed and edited by Dave Causa.

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