Year Of The Rat Records was set up by James Illsley in the Summer of 2020, in the midst of a national lockdown in London, UK.

Having run Saviour Management since 2013, James is experienced and well connected within the music industry.

In the ever-changing music industry, Year Of The Rat Records offers artists fair royalty splits in return for label services, expertise, press, radio, networking, and marketing, to help take its artists to the next level. Our artists have seen great success with DSP playlisting across the board at Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon, Deezer, Pandora, Youtube Music, Tidal, Napster and more.

Our artists have landed radio and press with MTV, BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6, Radio X, Revolver, Metal Injection, Daily Express, Sunday Sport, Rolling Stone, Sirius XM Octane, BBC, Kerrang TV, Kerrang Radio, Lambgoat, Dreambound, Triple J, Idobi Radio, Rock Sound, Alternative Press, Knotfest, Loudwire, RTE2XM, Metal Hammer and many other respected publications.