A month before the release of their third album, Saliva will launch an eighteen-date tour to give fans a sneak peek at the new material. The band's Back Into Your System is scheduled for a November 12th release, and Saliva will hit the road on October 17th in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The dates currently run through November 23rd in Detroit.

System is the follow-up to last year's platinum Every Six Seconds, and frontman Josey Scott says that the record is an extension of the band's breakthrough, rather than a repeat of a winning formula. "It's gonna be a really special record," Scott says. "It's evolved from Every Six Seconds, it's the next level, it's a sequel. It has our trademark songwriting -- as far as melody and hooks and lyrics that identify with the human condition -- but from where we are now as opposed to then."

According to Scott, the title track represents the band's relationship with fans, a contingent that has swelled after his successful appearance with Nickelback's Chad Kroeger on "Hero," the hit single from Spider-Man. "It's about us coming back home and back to the fans," he said. "Getting back to their system with more music and more feeling and just being driven by the love that they have for us. Hopefully we can identify with them one more time."

After landing an opening gig for Nickelback last year, Saliva will return the favor this fall, taking Theory of a Deadman, a Kroeger-signed and produced band, out as their opening act on most dates.

Saliva tour dates:

10/17: Jonesboro, AR, Arkansas State University
10/24: Lubbock, TX, The Pavilion
10/25: Amarillo, TX, South Beach
10/26: San Angelo, TX, Santa Fe Junction
10/27: Houston, TX, Woods Mitchell Pavilion
10/29: New Orleans, House of Blues
10/30: Memphis, New Daisy Theater
11/1: Dallas, Canyon Club
11/2: Selma, TX, Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
11/4: Tallahassee, FL, Floyd's Music Store
11/5: Atlanta, Masquerade
11/13: New York, The World
11/15: Boston, Axis
11/16: Philadelphia, Trocadero
11/19: Pittsburgh, Metropol
11/20: Cleveland, Odeon
11/22: Cincinnati, Bogarts
11/23: Detroit, Harpos

ANDREW DANSBY
(October 8, 2002)