Saliva - Cinco Diablo
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Artist: SalivaEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-12-16
Music Label: Island
Soundtracks:
- Family Reunion
- My Own Worst Enemy featuring Brent Smith
- Best Of Me
- How Could You?
- Hunt You Down
- Judgment Day
- Forever And A Day
- I'm Coming Back
- Southern Girls
- So Long
Music reviews of Cinco Diablo
Music Review: Mostly Aggressive Guitars Over Saliva's Soft Chorus Formula...
Rating: 3 Stars
An Improvement over "Blood Stained Love Story"
If a band starts out with a hard rock/metal album like "Every Six Seconds", fans tend to have that expectation with each album, but as their career continues, Saliva has been shifting into more ballads and pop-like songs more often, and if you expect the heaviness, it's starting to become a minority on each album it seems.
Tracks 1, 2 "My Own Worst Enemy", and track 5 "Hunt You Down" are my favorites, with some aggressive riffs, good choruses and verses. Track 2, Own Worst Enemy is a really good one, then track 5 is nicely aggressive, and finally Track 1 "Family Reunion", the trademark "Boom!" track is okay, more like a Ladies and Gentleman song, but not bad. It can't match "Click, Click Boom" though. Tracks 3 and 6 are somewhat heavy but Track 3 has too many soft choruses that sucks out the cool aggression that was building up, and Track 6 is mostly soft choruses, too smooth and pleasant compared to the hard, gritty vocals elsewhere on the album.
The rest of the album? If you like ballads and softer tunes with a sprinkling of aggressive guitars under Saliva's familiar 'soft vocal chorus formula', this might work, but not for me. Out of these, tracks 4 "How Could You" and 10 "So Long" sound good in that style, and well written if I had to listen to them. Track 4 reminds me a little of "Always", from Back Into Your System. Track 10 has some nice piano and vocal melody.
Saliva, who started with a mostly hard rock album, "Every Six Seconds", likes a range of soft and hard rock songs to sing with each new album, otherwise, they're being told to also market themselves to a lighter audience. This still sounds heavier than their last album, "Blood Stained Love Story", but 3 solid hard rock/metal tracks out of 10 doesn't feel like it's worth buying the album for, unless you must have every album of a band you like. Best to preview what you like and download that, unless you like the softer direction Saliva's been taking.
Opinions on each track:
Track 1 Family Reunion- The "Boom" Track. Sounds okay. 3/5
Track 2 My Own Worst Enemy, great, hard rocking song, favorite track. 5/5
Track 3 Best of Me, the soft chorus is okay, riffs okay. 3/5
Track 4 How Could You, good ballad song, heavy, not really. 3/5
Track 5 Hunt You Down, nice, heavier track, good rhythms, 4/5
Track 6 Judgment Day, old western style, but soft vocal chorus, repetitious. 2/5
Track 7 Forever and a Day, a soft love song ballad. 1/5
Track 8 I'm Coming Back, rap followed by a soft chorus and a vocal roar, 2/5
Track 9 Southern Girls, Saliva's version of California Girls. 2/5
Track 10 So Long, soft song, not my style, but well written, 3/5 (4/5 if it's your style).
Album, 3/5 in my opinion. Decent aggression returns, but too many soft choruses.
Description of Cinco Diablo
Multi-platinum Island Records' five-man band Saliva has completed its aptly-titled fifth album, CINCO DIABLO, set to arrive in the physical and digital marketplace on December 16th - the ultimate alt-metal post-grunge must-have CD this twisted holiday season! The new album's first single pick, "Family Reunion," was #1 Most Added at Active Rock and Modern Rock radio and is already on over 75 stations at both formats.In advance support of CINCO DIABLO, Memphis favorites Saliva continue their never-ending headlining tour schedule with Jet Black Stare, Drowning Pool, and Tantric through Nov. 11th (Veteran's Day) in Texas. Saliva will play a halftime NBA homecoming gig at FedEx Forum in Memphis on Halloween, when the Grizzlies host the Magic.
CINCO DIABLO is the long-awaited followed to Blood Stained Love Story, Saliva's fourth album, released nearly two years ago in January 2007. It gave the band the highest Soundscan debut of their career - #19-bullet on combined first week sales of 30,000 copies. The album also spun off one of Saliva's highest-charting singles, "Ladies and Gentlemen," which rose to #1 at Active Rock and #2 at Mainstream Rock. "Ladies and Gentlemen" was heard in a Sony Playstation commercial last year, and was also used in Wrestlemania and Ultimate Fighting show Wired. The song matched the success of their biggest single to date, "Always," which hit #1 at Active and Modern Rock back in 2002 (from the Back Into Your System album).
Saliva - singer and lyricist Josey Scott, guitarists Wayne Swinny and Jon Montoya, bassist Dave Novotny, and drummer Paul Crosby - was formed in Memphis in 1996, and issued their eponymously titled indie debut the next year. Their major label debut arrived on Island's Uptown/Universal imprint in 2001, Every Six Seconds. It included their first charted rock single "Click Click Boom" and the Grammy-nominated #3 Mainstream Rock track, "Your Disease" (featured on the Dracula 2000 movie soundtrack). (Every Six Seconds, now available via the newly-relaunched Mercury Records label, received RIAA double-platinum certification in July 2008.)
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