In April 2007 Salem releases their 5th album 'The Rest of the West' - a compilation of the Salem Trilogy (2002-2005) including new bonus material.

"The Rest of the West" is Salem's first international album and contains - besides material from the duo's first three albums - new tracks as well. One single is going to be the new song "The Needle in the Butterfly" and a historical step is made as Salem has been given permission by Lars von Trier (Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, etc.) and Zentropa to use sequences from the director's masterpiece "Europa" (1991) as basic tapes for a music video.

Salem has its own unique sound and style. Part soundtrack to an imagined previously unreleased spaghetti western, and part existentialist symphony packed with literary references, mariachi trumpets, banjos, bells and a Russian army choir, Salem is impressive! Through bombastic landscapes of sound ingeniously orchestrated to intimate cabaret-like night club gusto, Salem combines a vast variety of genres and styles and refuses to be pigeon holed in one particular direction. A common denominator, however, is the superb vocal that shies no comparison to the greatest crooners of all times and the songs that, though founded in a pop-context, dare wrestle the great philosophical themes of our time with poetical flair and lyrical beauty.

In 2000 Salem was formed by singer Mikkel Risbjerg and composer/producer Kasper No Behrens. Manifested in the release of the band's first album 'I Kicked the Dog' the duo had established one of the most exciting and unconventional acts on the Danish rock scene.

With the release of the Trilogy - "I Kicked the Dog" (2002), "The Anatomy of Pain" (2003) and "From the Riverbank" (2005) - Salem has taken the Danish critics by storm, receiving two nominations to the most important and highest ranked Danish music award, The Steppenwolf 2006 and several top 10 album-of-the-year rankings by an agreeing unity of Danish written medias.

In 2006, Salem released "Nord1" - an album celebrating the Scandinavian folklore tradition, hence sung in their native language Danish. Nord1 was nominated for Danish Music Awards 07 and ranked top 5 album-of-the-year by the newspaper Information.

As a result of the airplay on various international radios such as London station ResonanceFM's hyped cult-show "Bonanza" and UIC Radio/Chicago University, along side with an overwhelming interest on the virtual site myspace.com, a need emerged for an album designed to an international audience. "The Rest of the West" manifests Salem's awesome potential.