1997–2011: early years Born in
Olbia in 1984, Salmo began his musical career at age 13, recording his early verses between 1997 and 1998. In 1999, he made and published the demo
Premeditazione e dolo with Olbian rappers Bigfoot and Scascio (with whom he formed the Premeditazione e dolo group). He published his first solo demo in 2004, entitled
Sotto pelle. The following year, Salmo self-produced and released his second demo,
Mr. Antipatia. As part of his solo career, Salmo has collaborated on several projects. He has worked with the
rap metal band Skasico, with whom he recorded and produced the albums
Therapy (2004),
21 Grams (2006), and
Orange and Bloom (2008). In 2008, he collaborated with the Ed Gein in the production of
Toedgein (2008) and
Shell Shock (2011). In 2009, he produced the
Merciful Bullets EP of
stoner rock band Three Pigs Trip.
2011–2012: The Island Chainsaw Massacre and Death USB In 2011, Salmo published his first
studio album, titled
The Island Chainsaw Massacre, which quickly gave notoriety to the rapper in the national rap scene. The following year Salmo appeared in the
mixtape Machete Mixtape (self-produced by Machete Empire Records) in which several rappers of the Italian scene took part, such as
Ensi,
Bassi Maestro,
Clementino and MadMan. Inside the record appears the song
Go Jack!, a dissing turned to Pino Scotto. Furthermore, in the same year Salmo released his second album
Death USB, published on 23 February, which saw the publication of five
Video clips, namely those of
Il pentacolo,
Negative Youth,
Death USB,
Doomsday and
Demons to Diamonds. Also, at the MTV Hip Hop Awards 2012, Salmo won in the category "Best Crossover". Still in 2012, the rapper took part to the realization of Machete Crew mixtape
Machete Mixtape Vol II, in which are present
Stupido gioco del rap and
Disobey, from which some video clips have been extracted, published on 17 November and 24 January 2013.
2013: Midnite On 18 March 2013, the rapper announced the track list of his third album
Midnite (slang for "midnight"), published on 2 April and first teased on 21 March by the single
Russell Crowe. The album debuted at the first position on the
Italian music industry organization's rankings. On 18 April,
Rob Zombie's video clip, a song made in collaboration with Noyz Narcos, was released, while the video clip of
S.A.L.M.O. was released on 1 July. On 22 July, the video clip of the song
Killer Game was released, in collaboration with
Gemitaiz and MadMan, while
Midnite on 25 July was certified as a gold record for reaching the threshold of 30,000 copies sold. In August, the rapper collaborated with Dutch horrorcore group Dope D.O.D. in the track
Blood Shake, which was officially released on 5 September. The video clip was published in December.
The Island, a single featured with El Raton, En?gma and DJ Slait, was released on 17 September, the date when the video was also released. On 7 October was released the video clip of Midnite's closing track, Faraway, while on 26 November was released that for the piece
Space Invaders, which saw the participation of Nitro. On 24 December, the rapper released a standalone Christmas freestyle entitled
Buon N ***** in collaboration with rappers Gemitaiz and MadMan.
2014: S.A.L.M.O. Documentary and the release from Tanta Roba On 19 May 2014, through his Facebook page, Salmo announced his release from Tanta Roba, revealing that the fourth studio album would be published by Machete Empire Records and that the latest publication, with the label of
DJ Harsh and
Gué Pequeno, would be the live album
S.A.L.M.O. Documentary, released 17 June. This last album contains some songs performed live during the tour in support of
Midnite, a documentary and the unreleased
Mussoleeni, published digitally on 5 June. On 5 August 2014 the rapper released the first single named
La bestia in me for the
Mixtape Machete Mixtape III, a record of Machete Empire. It released 23 September. On 2 September the music video for the song
Venice Beach, from
Machete Mixtape III, was published exclusively on the Red Bull website.
2015–2016: Hellvisback Towards the end of 2014 he directed the videoclip of the single
Sabato of famous Italian singer
Jovanotti, together with Antonio Usbergo and Nicolò Celaia (both of
YouNuts!). The collaboration with Jovanotti continued during 2015 with the realization of a remix of
Sabato and with the participation at the
Lorenzo negli stadi 2015 Tour as opening artist. In 2015 Salmo also collaborated with
Noyz Narcos and Fritz da Cat on the song ''Dal tramonto all'alba
, published as third single from Localz Only'' album on 29 May of the same year. On 18 December 2015 Salmo published the single
1984, entirely composed by the rapper himself and promoted by the related videoclip released on the same day. At the same time as the release of the single, the fourth studio album
Hellvisback, was announced releasing on 5 February 2016. This album contains two featurings in the same song:
Il Messia featuring Victor Kwality and
Travis Barker, the drummer of
Blink-182. The album got an incredibile success, becoming certified Gold (more than 25,000 copies sold) after one week. In 2017 it gains the Double Platinum status. On 25 November, the album was re-released named
Hellvisback Platinum with the addition of a second CD consisting of live and two additional unreleased tracks, including the single
Don Medellín featuring
Rose Villain.
2017–2023: Playlist On 6 March 2017 Salmo acted as the protagonist in a
Short film named ''Nuraghes S'Arena
, directed by Mauro Aragoni and released exclusively by Paramount Channel. Later on 21 July the rapper returned to music with the release of Estate Dimmerda
together with a music video. On 24 November, Salmo released another single, entitled Perdonami'', debuting at the top of the Italian singles chart. In 2018 Salmo makes appearances in the albums
No Comment by
Nitro and
Enemy by
Noyz Narcos, in the songs
Chairaggione and
Mick Check respectively. On 8 March Salmo announces the release of his fifth studio album,
Playlist, and his first two concerts where it could be heard live. At
PalaLottomatica in
Rome on 16 December and at
Mediolanum Forum in
Assago on 22 December. The album was released on 9 November, consisting of 13 tracks, with guests such as
Fabri Fibra, Nitro, NSTASIA,
Sfera Ebbasta and
Coez. The album was preceded by the release of the single
90min (21 September) and by an advertising campaign involving an exhibition in front of the
Duomo in
Milan where Salmo disguised himself as a homeless man. The advertising campaign also involved the publication of a promotional video on the
Pornographic video sharing website,
Pornhub.
2019–2020: Machete Mixtape 4 On 5 July 2019 Salmo released
Machete Mixtape 4, a collaborative
compilation album with many rappers (largely from Machete Empire Records roster) in which he participates and produces a large portion of the 18 song track-list.
2021: Flop Three years after his previous album, Salmo released and album called
Flop on 1 October 2021. On 22 July 2021 for the first time Salmo spoke about his new album in an interview with
Radio 105. Flop was named in this way because Salmo considered it as his "worst album". in the next three days, flop was the most streamed album on Spotify.
2022: Blocco 181 Salmo appeared in an Italian movie called
Blocco 181 in 2022, but none of his own music is included on it. He stated he purposely did not want to include his music to keep it separate than his acting.
2023: Cvlt with Noyz Narcos This album, a collaboration with
Noyz Narcos, consists of fifteen tracks and was preceded by a short film directed by horror director
Dario Argento. In fact the sound is visibly harsher and heavier than the two rappers' latest works, even if it contains elements of electronic and pop music. ==Discography==