We were so excited to check out the new album “The Psychotron Speaks”  , from Providence based Rock band Salem Wolves . Out today on Tor Johnson Records,both digitally and on cassette “The Psychotron Speaks” is a blazing red hot concept album, that tells the story of Danny Morton Jr., a down-on-his luck ‘80s-era SWA pro wrestler named The Stranger, who rises to glory after tapping into a mysterious power delivered from an unknowable and unthinkable eldritch device capable of bending the world around it and creating distortion, both aural and psychological. 

The album is produced and mastered by Jay Maas (Defeater, Bane) This is the main event you have been waiting for . You can listen to “The Psychotron Speaks “ Here

Love it or hate it … professional wrestling is the perfect creative canvas. The perfect tag team partner for wrestling is without a doubt Rock And Roll.

Salem Wolves combine their electrifying sound mixed with a story that some day should find the lights of broadway .

Opening track “Away With It” is absolutely the perfect opening track as it brilliantly sets the scene for an epic musical experience. We also think “Away With It” would make a great wrestling entrance song .

“Low Card” has a real theatrical feel that we absolutely love.

“The Psychotron Speaks” is more than a concept album. Salem Wolves , have delivered arena worthy songs with “So Desperate” and “November “ We couldn’t help but get super hyped up while listening to this record.

The title track “The Psychotron Speaks!” feels like one of those songs that we will be talking about for years to come . A stroke of genius lives both with the album “The Psychotron Speaks” as well as the title track . We simply couldn’t get enough.

with a rock-and-wrestling release show to follow in August, a higher calling to create this record stirred within the band for a long time. Its source material nearly lost to history, Wolves frontman Gray Bouchard finally pulled the lever. ( We are so glad he did )

“This record emerged first from the Psychotron,” Bouchard admits, noting it’s been in development by the band for a long while. “Eagle-eared listeners will note that references to the Psychotron – and other eldritch devices – have popped up for years in Salem Wolves songs, though rarely in the foreground. For me, the Psychotron has been humming in my head for over a decade; this unknowable force of distortion and noise, neither malicious nor benevolent. Going into this cycle of writing and recording music, I thought the time was right to lean into its power and influence – as the Stranger did.” 

While talking about the concept,Bouchard, reveals“The record’s storyline was right there.” “The Stranger, is a bit of a cult figure to fans of territory wrestling in the mid-to-late ’80s. He was such a beast as a heavyweight champion, coming out of nowhere to dominate the SWA for like three years while the promotion went nuclear. You watch clips of Brawlcade and StarrSlam on YouTube, and it’s a weird precursor to the Monday Night Wars of the ‘90s in the way they presented edgy, hyper-realistic bouts that had the fans going nuts. But at the center of it is Danny, and he’s kind of a mystery: He was only active for that short run in the ‘80s, and then he fell off the map. He never went to the WWF/WCW, even after the SWA was sold to [Jim Crockett Promotions] in the early ‘90s. He existed in the weird, pre-WWF-dominated period where the line between a work and a shoot was blurred, especially in a local territory like the SWA.” 

Grab your championship belts and your vintage wrestling action figures and enjoy the greatness of “The Psychotron Speaks” from Salem Wolves .