Customer Reviews

Cinco Diablo

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(8)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

Lets set the record straight (pun intended....sorry). If you're a Saliva fan you won't be disappointed. Cinco Diablo has something from every prior album in every song. It's a collectively good album, with higher and lower points. Some songs have simpler yet good structure with guitar tone similar to Every Six Seconds, some are more melodic and have Back in Your System-like guitar fills. You get the heaviness of Survival of the Sickest toned down just a bit in spots, and at other times you get the lighter, more produced sound of Blood Stained Love Story. None of the songs really strike me as filler.

You'll see others saying the album doesn't bring anything different. While it does bring something different, its still Saliva. That's why I bought it. Love Story was a step in a different direction, and probably the least favorite of any fan. What happened when Metallica brought something new to the table?

You'll see others complaining about Josey saying BOOM in his songs. It's a trademark. Anyone that's ever seen them live cannot disagree that Family Reunion will be a great live song, and I promise you the entire crowd will be yelling BOOM along with him. It's a crowd interaction song the same as Click or Ladies and Gentlemen, or Always, and it was the correct choice for the first single.

The songs:
Family Reunion: First single. Classic Saliva sound.
My Own Worst Enemy: Heavier verse, Back in Your System-like chorus.
Best of Me: Heavier Blood Stained Love Story style song.
How Could You: You got me here. A good song-yes. Could it be titled Always II, absolutely. Same song structure.
Hunt You Down: Good `n heavy.
Judgment Day: You can't find fault in a song thanking a soldier.
Forever and a Day: Slow song. Back in Your System style guitar fills.
I'm coming Back: Every Six Seconds sound, more refined.
Southern Girls: Very bluesy. Driving bassline, but guitar is written a couple octaves high for my liking. Probably least favorite of all the songs. Its ok.
So Long: Another slow song. No comparison here really. A decent slow song. Second least favorite, but still not complaining.

From a musician's standpoint most of these songs should be fun to learn. Knowing about 75% of the first 3 albums, I only cared to learn 3 songs off Love Story. This one is different. I'm looking forward to learning most of these songs, you can sink you teeth into them just like the first 3 albums. That should say something about it. If you're a fan, buy this CD, turn it up until the speakers start to crackle and turn it down a hair, you shouldn't be disappointed.

I was hoping this album would make up for their last album, Bloob Stained Love Story (which quite frankly, was slow, poppish, and sounded like they were selling out). I was not disappointed.

Family Reunion - I liked this song, but its not a song I'd listen to on repeat
My Own Worst Enemy - Good guitar rips, this song I'd put in an action movie
Best of Me - This song is a little too repitive to listen to over and over, but its GREAT to listen to when you want to hear it.
How Could You - Softer rock, a good song nevertheless
Hunt You Down - One of my favorite saliva songs in years, up there with their early stuff.
Judgement Day - My favorite song on this CD, amazing guitar rips, great to rock out to.
Forever And A Day - Has the same sort of feel as Rest In Pieces, which i liked a lot, i love this song too even though it's still slower than i usually like.
I'm Coming Back - Has a SERIOUS flashback to their old sound. This is a good song.
Southern Girls - This song has a little classic rock feel to it, This is a great song if you like the ACDC style.
So Long - Just like a a good movie that has a bad ending, this song kils the album, its the reason i couldnt give it 5 stars.
With the exception of the last track, and "How Could You", this is a great album.

Saliva is one of the best rock band around at the moment. This album maintains there dominance. If you like there old stuff you will like this. Has some familiar sounds, new stuff, and some just good ole fashion rock.

it's saliva - like acdc, you're a fan or you're not. you know what you're getting. nothing new but a very good rock album. really a 4 star release , just gave it 5 to offset crappy 1 star reviews. if you like saliva, buy this .

The boys here are getting back into form from last disc, more rock for one, some may say they cheesed few same relabeled tunes from few other discs ,but they hold their own and are still fresh and there is a lil piece off each cd in my book , but to say the closest to form is the 3 previous to this cd, or like "survival" and the rockerz off "blood stained" overall this is more a solid disc like "survival" good disc and not overkill on the lovey mellow tunes altho there is a couple here, and i tunes has a killer bonus track called "hit me" ,only ten tunes is kinda a let down why i got off i tunes for the bonus track , overall better than last, "judgement day " solid rocker & "hunt you down" also, family reunion has similar to" ladies & gents" but still rocks in a new light..

Pretty good! A step up from their last album but still not as good as Back Into Your System or Survival Of The Sickest.

It's almost been 2 years since their last album, and the 5 man Memphis group returns with another pretty god album (about equal with their last one, a step up from their "Survival..." and a not as good as "Back into Your System" or "Every 6 Seconds"). Like most of the other albums, it's short (only 10 songs), with the majority being more upbeat tracks with a slower one here and ther. A nice album for their fans to pick up, not their best, but not their worst. You get 7 good songs (a few real good ones), and 3 ok ones.

#1 - 9
#2 - 8.5 (f/ Brent Smith of Shinedown)
#3 - 8
#4 - 8
#5 - 8
#6 - 8
#7 - 6
#8 - 7.5
#9 - 7
#10 - 8

Too many generic song structures. Saliva is a professional band - they know what works, just like 3 Doors Down - but that doesn't excuse songs like "Hunt You Down," "Judgment Day" or "Forever and a Day," which is like a rewrite of "King of the Stereo," a bland throwaway and "Here With You" rewritten, respectively. Overall, the album is good, because it's made by a competent group, but after cuts 2 through 4, only "So Long" - with its soaring pianos and strings - makes an impact.

You know those albums that bands pretend never got recorded? Well, it seems like Saliva has reached that status on Cinco Diablo.

Saliva was one of the bands that raised the nu-metal trend and put it on its feet. Every Six Seconds was a great album that featured songs with Limp Bizkit style rapping, while also trying to feature an alternative sound. Back Into Your System went further into that, while also containing their takes on sounds of bands such as Nickelback and Lynyrd Skynyrd, and is also my favorite of the first four albums. Survival of the Sickest had more of the southern rock flair of Back Into Your System, and is their most aggressive recording to date, but as good as this album is, it's certainly nothing like BITS. Blood Stained Love Story achieved more of a radio-friendly pop sound to it, with some aggression included. This proved that Saliva had a more mature side to them.

But just like Linkin Park on their album Minutes to Midnight, Saliva was beginning to fall flat with the heavier sound they had clipped on their first three albums. But unlike Linkin Park, Saliva didn't really understand that their rock sound was starting to become pale and stiff, leading into the atrocity named Cinco Diablo. This has to be the worst rock album I have bought or heard. Saliva doesn't take a step forward from Blood Stained Love Story, but they take "two steps back", or maybe more than that on this record.

The only great song on this record is How Could You, and the only decent songs are Family Reunion, I'm Coming Back, and Forever and a Day. The rest is uninspired drivel, especially one song that deserves to be a B-side called Hunt You Down. Oh my God, this song is just too uninspired. This song is sung way off key, and the solo is terrible. Same thing for the rest of the album. Best of Me let me down after I heard the sample of it, because the pre-chorus is terrible, and there is a solo. Same thing with most of the other songs on here!

Do not buy Cinco Diablo. It is the worst album in the rock genre, but the only reason I'm giving this more than one star is because- there's a heck of a lot of worse stuff out there, and this isn't making the music scene bad. Saliva did release an album two and a half years later entitled Under Your Skin that was more mature and only had a few tracks like this but the thing is this: THOSE SONGS WERE ACTUALLY GOOD! And I assume that Josey Scott left the band in late 2011 because he had been scarred due to this album being made. Cinco Diablo will always be the term of "bad" in rock music. Nuff said.

TRACKS:
Family Reunion (4/5)
My Own Worst Enemy (2/5)
Best Of Me (2/5)
How Could You? (4.5/5)
Hunt You Down (0/5)
Judgment Day (1/5)
Forever And A Day (3/5)
I'm Coming Back (3/5)
Southern Girls (3/5)
So Long (2/5)
ALBUM SCORE: (27/50)

Rating: 2 stars/5 stars

everything saliva does is pretty good.Now your gonna here some pop formula to some of theyre music,but that guarentes radio play for the masses and draws in the crowds for singalongs at the concerts.Cinco is just as good as their first two albums and if you like those dont withold this from your Saliva collection