Chicago noise rock trio Salvation to release new LP »The Haunted« on October 16th through Reptilian Records; first single »Already Dead« streaming now!
Chicago, Illinois based noise rock trio Salvation has announced their fifth studio album, »The Haunted«, scheduled for release on October 16th, 2026 via Reptilian Records.
Listen to the first single »Already Dead« below!
Tracklist:
01. Quotas
02. Blow On A Wednesday
03. Already Dead
04. Devil’s Child
05. Emergency
06. Another Sinner
07. Depression
08. Soaked To The Bone
09. Already Done
10. Descending Time & Space
Courtesy of Earsplit PR:
The noisemongering miscreants at Reptilian Records presents »The Haunted«, the slamming fifth LP by Chicago-based noise rock trio Salvation.
Since the release of their first album in 2015, Salvation has hammered the masses with a pummeling brew of infectious racket blending the enduring traits of noise rock with a touch of more accessible grunge approach, stacked with hooks and even more amplification, resulting in blown-out glory, spiraling downward like a party on the last night on Earth. Moments of their songs invoke Nirvana’s sweet, melodic annihilation, others verge on the unhinged twang of Lollipop or Cows. Drummer Brian Wnukowski (Big’n) hammers the skins like he’s avenging an unforeseen crime while bassist Victor Riley fleshes out the thundering low-end, and guitarist/vocalist Jason Sipe holds court with a formidable voice – a mix of power and pain, confidence and vulnerability, he commands attention with every holler and howl.
Photos by Ryan Bardsley
Their first three albums »Royal Fucks« (2015), »Sore Loser« (2017), and »Year Of The Fly« (2019) were released through Forge Again Records, after which Salvation joined with the long-running Reptilian Records for the 2022 release of their fourth album, »Mock«. Decibel Magazine once wrote, “The space afforded by the band’s relative compactness allows the bass to build while a key noise element, feedback, stretches. The resultant workout runs through exercises that touch on trio peers past and present: Whores, Unsane, the Melvins and Nirvana. Hell, a slightly more metallic edge would turn it into a full-on metalcore banger. It’s a full flex of the musical muscles of mayhem…” Of »Mock«, No Echo proclaimed, “The group’s classic Sub Pop meets AmRep noise rock has built up into a lean and mean beast of an operation,” and Idioteq stated, “Salvation have pulled off one of the great albums in the genre this year, a masterpiece of dark, raucous, noise rock…”
»The Haunted« leans full-on into these attributes, delivering another expectedly slamming dose of grimy yet easily digestible rocking dirge. Throughout the album’s ten tracks, the band fuses bits of bluesey Americana, punk, and alternative into their driving noise rock delivery. Recorded in Chicago at Electrical Audio by Taylor Hales and at Palisade Studios by Erik Rasmussen, who also handled mixing and mastering duties, »The Haunted« is completed with cover photo by Ceyda Tekin, insert photos by Brian Santostefano and Arman Mabry, and back cover photo and layout by SWZ.
With the lead preview track, »Already Dead«, Jason Sipe reveals, “I wrote this song about a dream where I kept waking up over and over through a constant loop of life and death. I couldn’t figure out what was life and what was death, and what was waking or dreaming. A fun fact about the song is that I wrote it about a week before we recorded it, taught it to the guys while we were in the studio working on the record. They wrote their parts in twenty minutes and we hit record!”
Crank Salvation’s »Already Dead«, now playing on Bandcamp HERE and YouTube HERE.
»The Haunted« will be released on LP and digitally on October 16th. Preorders can be made at the Reptilian Records webshop HERE and Bandcamp HERE.
A video for the next single and more will be issued over the coming weeks.
Salvation is booking shows surrounding the record’s release with more shows in November and December in the works.
Salvation live:
9/14/2026 Livewire Lounge – Chicago, IL w/ Bronson Arm, Broken Spindles
Salvation is:
Jason Sipe – Guitar, Vocals
Victor Riley – Bass
Brian Wnukowski – Drums
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well