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Saliva’s first critical success was their final-round placement in the Grammy Showcase Competition, which saw them perform in New York and pick up a considerable initial fan base. Soon after this achievement, Saliva self-released their debut album, “Saliva”, which helped them catch the attention of Island Records and eventually won them a record deal.
Signed to Island Records, the band released their second album, “Every Six Seconds” in 2001. The album placed at number 56 on the Billboard 200, winning the group considerable attention and the single “Your Disease” placed at number three on the Mainstream Rock Chart in the US.
In 2002 Saliva had their first top 20 album with the release of “Back Into Your System”. The commercial success of the album was helped significantly by the success of singles “Always” and “Rest In Pieces” written by Nikki Sixx and James Michael. The band’s fame increased further after being asked to tour with KISS and Aerosmith in 2003.
Saliva’s next two albums “Survival of the Sickest” and “Blood Stained Love Story” were both top 20 hits, but the band’s subsequent albums failed to generate the same success for the group. In 2011 lead vocalist Josey Scott left the group to pursue a solo career and since then the band has been pursuing a new direction with Bobby Amaru singing lead vocals.
Over the years Saliva has toured with the likes of Sevendust, Pop Evil, Aranda and Royal Bliss in addition to KISS and Aerosmith. In 2002 Saliva was nominated for a Grammy Award for their performance of “Your Disease”.
It perhaps doesn’t bode too well when your band’s widest worldwide exposure comes as a result of your singer recording a duet with the lead singer of Nickelback, but that’s probably the case as far as Saliva are concerned; their former frontman Josey Scott teamed up with Chad Kroeger for ‘Hero’, the theme song from the first Sam Raimi-directed Spider-Man movie, back in 2002. In their own right, though, Saliva are a heavyweight rock outfit, having seen their second album, Every Six Seconds, go platinum back in 2001. That’s not to say that they completely rode the coattails of the nu metal movement, though; over the course of their careers, they also flirted with straightforward hard rock, industrial metal, and metalcore sounds, too. Saliva remain a going concern today, although Scott left the band in late 2011 to pursue a solo career in the Christian rock scene. The rest of the band decided to plough on anyway, bringing in Bobby Amaru as Scott’s replacement and quickly dropping two albums - last year’s In It to Win It and April’s Rise Up. Amaru continues to play old Saliva songs when they tour, but brings an altogether different energy to proceedings; he’s reinvigorated both his bandmates and the fans in the process.