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‘THE PSYCHOTRON SPEAKS’
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ABOUT SALEM WOLVES
“Howling at the door of success…”
Formed in 2014 by songwriter and frontman Gray Bouchard, Salem Wolves has whipped up an unholy ruckus all their own. Mixing swaggering, tuneful garage rock, post-punk and stadium-ready anthems, Salem Wolves' gritty style of psychotronic rock and roll has helped develop a cult following around New England. Sneering yet joyful; sweet yet sour; all hooks, no filler—there's no one like Salem Wolves.
Salem Wolves is:
Gray Bouchard: Vocals and Guitar
Justin Tisdale: Bass
Sam Valliere: Guitar
Local Headliners and National Support
Known for their intense live performance, the Wolves have headlined regional tours become a commodity for touring nationals looking to boost local attendence, sharing the stage with Diarrhea Planet, Death Valley Girls, L.A. Witch, JEFF the Brotherhood, Roky Erickson, King Khan and the Shrines, Life of Agony, and more.
Critical Acclaim
The band has self-released critically acclaimed records Tooth & Nail (2017), Shake (2018, produced by the Grammy-nominated Chris Johnson of Deafheaven), as well as EPs Never Die!!! (2020) and Hostile Music (2022) both produced by Jay Maas (Defeater, Bane). Along the way, Salem Wolves have been nominated for several Boston Music Awards, including New Artist of the Year in 2016, Song of the Year in 2018 (“Shake”), and Rock Artist of the Year in 2020 and 2022.
FEATURES
FEATURES
Salem Wolves have been featured on WCVB’s Chronicle, as well as notable publications across New England and beyond, such as the Boston Globe, Boston.com, Boston Herald, Ghost Cult Magazine, IDIOTEQ, Impose Magazine, Vanyaland, Allston Pudding, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, WBUR The ARTery, Boston Magazine, and others. In January 2019, Down The Road Beer Co. and radio station indie617 gave Salem Wolves their own beer, the Salem Wolves IPA.
MEDIA PRAISE FOR SALEM WOLVES
This song is wild, it’s huge. Great singer too. It’s all there.’ _Bartees Strange
“Wow. Opening riff is Cheap Trick on steroids, hook is massive.” _Adam 12
“This hot-blooded stroke hit me and my ears from the moment the first chord blasted out of my shaking stereo. Ardent anxiety and edgy excitability dominate this fanatical outburst. And when the clamorous chorus erupts you’ll go mental just as these wolves do. Holy smoke!” _Turn Up The Volume
“Amidst a flurry of riffage that creates an incessant buzzsaw-churning wall of sound sits Salem Wolves’ vocalist Gray Bouchard whose delicate delivery against the brash bombast is just the kind of cathartic contrast the Boston Rawk quartet need to deliver their most hard-hitting and hook-laden track yet.” _Rock & Roll Fables
“Hostile Music for hostile people” _1st 3 Magazine
“There are two wolves inside you. One wants to tear through town on a hate-fueled rampage. The other wants to chill the eff out and listen to the cautionary wisdom of ‘Hostile Music.’” _Vanyaland
“[T]he song's title is indicative of the fast and furious nature of the sound, which dabbles in the early ‘00s emo-rock pool to give the song some flare and pizazz that makes the song a fast mover… An outstanding effort that has the potential to be one of the most enduring releases of the year.” _Music Box Pete
“Salem Wolves certainly get after it on their new track ‘Hostile Music’ which is a combination of something that starts off sounding like a classic Billy Idol song and breaks into a big early 2000’s emo era chorus in the vein of My Chemical Romance or The Used.” _Blood Makes Noise
"‘Hostile Music’ is still that arena rock ready garage rock that we know and love, but the band has injected a tiny bit of metal into their sound… ‘Hostile Music’ is one of the heaviest and oddly pleasant songs to come from Salem Wolves to date!” _If It’s Too Loud
“Salem Wolves… add some punk fury to the darkness. What begins as a quiet, mutative track blooms into a rampaging rock ’n’ roll rave-up [‘Titanium’]. Ugh, we need club shows to return and Salem Wolves to headline them so we pump our fists and shout, ‘Cold as titanium.’” _Boston Herald
“Massachusetts-based psychotronic rock band Salem Wolves pull out three exclamation marks!!! on the title track from their new EP. A great sound -- I just ‘discovered’ this band, but they have apparently been tearing up around New England for some time.” _Ear2TheGround
"Salem Wolves bring a mix of garage-y noise, distorted witchy psych sounds, and pop sensibilities to life on Black Books. The more I hear it, the catchier it gets... Trashy garage pop at its demented best." _Anngelle Wood, WZLX
“Once the force of 'Titanium' picks up, the best you can do is hold on for dear life... It's a huge, slick, loud, and heavy rock song." _If It’s Too Loud
"Salem Wolves are here to summon out your inner ache for rugged, and damned riffs that ride out into a thousand sunsets.” _Impose Magazine