Saliva Announces the Release Date for 'Love, Lies & Therapy'

With nine studio albums, including one gold and platinum and a 2002 Grammy nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance for "Your Disease" under their belts, you wouldn't think Saliva - formed 1996 in Memphis, TN - would have anything left to prove.

But that's simply not the case.

With their ninth studio album, the aptly titled Love, Lies & Therapy, which is slated for release on June 10, 2016, on Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) - and second with lead vocalist Bobby Amaru joining co-founding member, lead guitarist Wayne Swinny, drummer Paul Crosby and newest member bassist Brad Stewart - Saliva has been reenergized.

Thanks to Amaru, who produced most of the album (with co-producers Nolan Neal and Damien Starkey) and wrote or co-wrote all the originals, the band has found a new energy and expanded their signature anthemic choruses and crunching riffs into different directions, with power ballads ("Tragic Kind Of Love," "Break Down," "The Loneliest Know" and "Hand In Hand") alongside typical scorchers like "Trust," "Bitch Like You," "Unshatter Me," "Rx" and the rap-rock-flavored "Go Big Or Go Home." Adding to the eclectic approach is an unlikely, but powerful cover of Michael Jackson's "They Don't Care About Us," a single from his 1996 album, HIStory, Past Present and Future, Book 1.

Saliva does intend to overcome, though, as in "Go Big Or Go Home," where Amaru insists "It's my time to rise so let's go," or the closing "Hand In Hand," an elegiac, Led Zeppelin-esque number that seems to put his troubles behind him: "So I'll see you soon old friend/And we'll burn hand in hand," with a chilling Wayne Swinny guitar solo doing the honors in burying the past and facing the future.

On Love, Lies & Therapy, Saliva dig deep, transforming themselves into a refurbished rock band that takes the best from their impressive legacy and launches into a promising present.

Love, Lies & Therapy Tracklisting

1. Trust
2. Tragic Kind Of Love
3. Bitch Like You
4. Unshatter Me
5. Broken Wings
6. Rx
7. Break Down
8. Go Big or Go Home
9. The Loneliest Know
10. Refuse To Lose
11. They Don't Care About Us*
12. Hand In Hand

* Written by Michael Jackson