Saliva Drop ‘Sin City Mistress’ Video—First Look at ‘Breaking Through’ Album Track

THE DROP

Saliva have dropped an official video for "Sin City Mistress," directed by Gray Taylors, from their twelfth album "Breaking Through," out in August via Judge & Jury Records ^*†. The label is Howard Benson and Neil Sanderson's own outfit, and both served as executive producers on the record ^*.

WHAT TO KNOW

• Album number twelve, 13 tracks, with "Sin City Mistress" sitting at ten and Johnny Van Zant-featuring "Longshot" closing it out ^*†.
• Guests: Van Zant (Lynyrd Skynyrd), Trevor McNevan (Thousand Foot Krutch) and Austin John Winkler (Hinder) ^*.
• Produced by frontman Bobby Amaru with Steve Perreira ^*.
• Amaru has fronted the band since 2011; founding guitarist Wayne Swinny died in 2023. "This band meant more to Wayne than music itself, and he wanted us to continue in its current form," Amaru said ^*.
• They're touring 25 years of "Every Six Seconds" with Drowning Pool — and catching heat because nobody currently in Saliva played on it ^†.

THE TAKE

The producer chair is the interesting part here: Benson and Sanderson executive producing means this record got real ears on it, not just another indie-label dump. The anniversary tour is the harder sell — celebrating an album your entire lineup had no hand in is a tough pitch to anyone who bought it in 2001, and the criticism isn't unfair ^†. Worth noting the album ends on Van Zant, not on a nu-metal throwback.