Sam Slater is a Berlin-based composer, producer, and sound artist working across experimental music, film, games, and installation. His work is built from physical sound: unstable feedback systems, altered acoustic instruments, damaged electronics, low-frequency pressure, and self-made devices that blur the line between composition, performance, and sonic engineering.

A two-time Grammy-winning producer, Slater helped shape the sound of Chernobyl and Joker, and has worked extensively with Hildur Guðnadóttir, co-composing Battlefield 2042. But his own practice has increasingly moved toward a distinct and self-authored language: industrial sacred music, devotional noise, corrupted song-form, and sound design treated as composition.

Across solo releases including Wrong Airport Ghost, I Do Not Wish To Be Known As A Vandal, and Lunng, Slater explores music as a constructed physical environment. Brass, voice, drums, strings, electronics, and distortion are pushed into unstable relationships, creating worlds that feel heavy, intimate, ritualistic, and uneasy.

This language extends through his work with OSMIUM, the drone-experimental ensemble formed with Guðnadóttir, James Ginzburg, and Rully Shabara, and into recent scores including Mstyslav Chernov’s 2000 Meters to Andriivka and Housemarque’s Saros. Across these projects, Slater’s work remains focused on pressure, texture, distortion, and the strange beauty that emerges when sound begins to behave like a living material.

In 2025, Slater founded Mt. Brings Death with American guitarist Mason Lindahl, a label for experimental music, soundtracks, and cross-media projects.