SURVIVAL OF THE SICKEST
I honestly didn't think SALIVA was going to make it to disc #3. I loved
Every Six Seconds. I trounced their second disc,
Back Into Your System, and evidently I was in the minority with my negative opinion of that disc, because it did well. Who knew that song Nikki Sixx wrote, "Rest In Pieces" would have done so well?
With
Survival Of The sickest, Joey Scott and co. have pumped up the amount of straight ahead rock, and drastically reduced the amount of rap in each song. The first single, "
Survival Of The Sickest" is really hooky, really hummable, and the main riff REALLY sounds like "The Fight Song" by MARILYN MANSON. Aside from the title track, stand-out songs include "Two Steps Back", the ballad "Open Eyes" and "Fuck All Y'all", which is the only song with prominent rapping in it
(not that it COULD be a single...save for satellitie radio shows...calling Eddie Trunk).
The hidden track "Sex, Drugs, and Rock N' Roll" is SO over-the-top, 80's and campy, that it's cool...because it's cool to be retro, I guess.
I like this disc; honestly, I don't think it's going to sell too huge outside of the midwestern U.S. because it's so rooted in mainstream rock, but you never know... Hell, I didn't know shit when I said the second one wasn't going to do well, so maybe I'm wrong about this one too.
