SALOS – A Slaughter For The Empire Out This Friday!

SALOS, the instrumental post-metal duo from Greece, announce their debut full-length album A Slaughter for the Empire, a seven-track work of cinematic heaviness that charts the slow unmaking of devotion, power, and belief.

Forged in atmosphere and restraint, A Slaughter for the Empire unfolds as a complete ritual: 34 minutes moving through stone, sea, stars, and collapse. Drawing on the expansive tension of God Is an Astronaut, the monolithic precision of Russian Circles, and the darker currents of progressive metal, SALOS craft music that breathes as much through silence as it does through impact.

The journey opens beneath the basalt sentinel of “Hvítserkur”, where towering riffs rise like geological memory, and builds steadily toward the nine-minute reckoning of “We Deteriorate, Let’s Disintegrate”, a gradual collapse unfolding in slow motion. The album closes with “Nahtaivel”, an ambient inversion of everything that came before.

Recorded at Eightyard Studios by Chris Vlachos, and mixed and mastered by Steve Lado, the record moves between earth-shaking heaviness and expansive sonic horizons. Synths are performed by Nikos Mavromatis (Nick Thurl of October Ends), while “Arches” features saxophone contributions from acclaimed Greek jazz musician Yiannis Kassetas, adding an unexpected human fragility to the record’s monumental scope.

First conceived in 2016 and taking full shape in Kalamata, Greece in 2021, SALOS evolved from a singular vision into a fully realized practice. What began as an idea matured into a deliberate convergence of progressive metal architecture and post-rock atmosphere, forged in the liminal space between transcendent drift and crushing gravity.

SALOS emerge from the Aegean deep as an instrumental force, two voices, no words, only tide.