File Under: Rock/Metal rating: D tracks 1) Superstar 2) Musta Been Wrong 3) Click Click Boom 4) Your Disease 5) After Me 6) Greater Than/ Less Than 7) Lackluster 8) Faultline 9) Beg 10) Hollywood 11) Doperide 12) My Goodbyes related links Saliva

Every Six Seconds is about how often I had to refrain from pulling this CD out of my player and never listening to it again. Not that I’ll ever listen to it again, I just didn’t quit halfway through the first time. Replete with dramatic changes from full-on guitar assaults to low-key bass/drum/vocal sections which seem to cover up the fact that they can’t think of any more riffs, Saliva is as generic as generic gets. It’s a perfect example of all the effort going into singles and using the rest of the space as filler. “Click Click Boom” has one of the most monstrous guitar tones I’ve ever heard but let’s just say it doesn’t work on any more levels than having a cool riff and cool guitar tone. There are weak attempts throughout at melody but when you sound like Kevin Seconds and aren’t, it doesn’t get you very far. Oh yeah, and there’s that rap thing going on with drums and bass grooving in the background then they kick it for the big bridge and chorus, how original. There is good new heavy music out there, this just isn’t it.

John Rovnan is a staff writer. Contact him at jrovnan@rockzone.com.