In a brand new interview with the FM99 WNOR radio station, SALIVA singer Bobby Amaru spoke concerning the band’s determination to hold on following the March 2023 passing of SALIVA founding guitarist Wayne Swinny. Bobby mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “[Wayne] was a type of guys, for those who knew him, his character was simply giant. And there is no means that he would’ve wished it every other means. That is simply how he was. He would all the time — he would discuss to me about issues like that. Like, ‘Hey, if one thing occurs, man, you’ve got gotta maintain doing this. Do not cease due to me or one thing.'”

He added: “However we love the man. We miss the man very a lot. He was an enormous a part of this band and model and all the time shall be.”

Final month, SALIVA launched the official music video for the tune “Come Again Stronger”. The monitor is taken from the band’s newest album, “Revelation”, which got here out on September 8. It marks the band’s first launch because the passing of Swinny, who died whereas on tour with the group.

The “Come Again Stronger” video was notably filmed on March 16, 2023 — simply 5 days earlier than Swinny‘s demise — and is devoted to the fallen guitarist.

On March 22, SALIVA shared an announcement on Fb through which the band mentioned that Swinny had been discovered that morning “in medical misery.” Paramedics had been known as and the musician was transported to hospital “the place he was identified with a Spontaneous Hemorrhage in his mind.”

SALIVA was on the street within the U.S. as a part of the “Spring Mayhem” tour with THROUGH FIRE and ANY GIVEN SIN and had performed in Warrendale, Pennsylvania on March 21.

When “Revelation” was first introduced in July, Amaru mentioned in an announcement: “We began engaged on this file in 2020 throughout the pandemic shutdown. I felt like we needed to get exterior of the field with this one.

“I have been sober nearly 5 years now and there are lots of songs on this file which might be a mirrored image of it. I simply wished to attach with the listener and pull them into what I used to be coping with but additionally shed some mild on overcoming private adversity.

“With the passing of Wayne in March, I felt misplaced. The place do I’m going? I knew we had this file we had been all stoked about. Wayne‘s affect is throughout these songs and, for my part, his taking part in on this album is subsequent degree. It is the one proper factor to do to honor him and all our laborious work and launch it. I simply wish to share with the world what we’ve labored on the final three-plus years.”

SALIVA has teamed up with DROWNING POOL, ADELITAS WAY and ANY GIVEN SIN for the “SNAFU Le Tour 2023” in September and October.

SALIVA launched its profession in 2001 with the discharge of “Each Six Seconds”, a double-platinum promoting album with hits that embody “Click on, Click on Growth” and “Your Illness”.

The band has toured the U.S. with SEVENDUST, AEROSMITH and KISS.

SALIVA reunited with unique singer Josey Scott for a one-off look eventually yr’s Blue Ridge Rock Pageant on the Virginia Worldwide Raceway in Alton, Virginia.

Scott left SALIVA on the finish of 2011 after 15 years with the group, reportedly to pursue a solo Christian music profession. He was rapidly changed by Amaru, who could be heard on SALIVA‘s final 5 releases: “In It To Win It” (2013),“Rise Up” (2014),“Love, Lies & Remedy” (2016),“10 Lives” (2018) and the aforementioned “Revelation”.

SALIVA launched six albums with Scott and tasted platinum success and a Grammy nomination for its first large hit, “Your Illness”.

In Might 2021, SALIVA celebrated the twentieth anniversary of its breakthrough main label debut, “Each Six Seconds”, with a particular challenge known as “Each Twenty Years”, an EP of basic songs re-recorded with Amaru.