Empros is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Russian Circles.
Russian Circles began writing Empros in January 2011. In April 2011, the group entered Phantom Manor studios in Chicago, Illinois with producer Brandon Curtis of The Secret Machines and Interpol, who also previously produced the group's 2009 album Geneva.
Bassist Brian Cook described the band's mindset for creating Empros as trying to “make the same ebb and flow of our live set happen on the record, with more constructive dynamics and dramatic bridging between songs.”
The album was also described in a press release from Sargent House as being Russian Circles' heaviest album to date.