saliva

Saliva is a 5-man rock band, originating in Memphis, Tennessee. The band formed in September, 1996 when lead singer Josey Scott and guitarist Chris D'Abaldo hooked up. Later guitarist Wayne Swinny, drummer Paul Crosby, and bassist Dave Novotny joined to complete the lineup.

After finishing as national finalists in a competition sponsored by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Saliva put out a self-titled independent debut album, which sold a modest 10,000 copies. Following the success of "Your Disease" on the Dracula 2000 soundtrack, Saliva released their first "real" album, Every Six Seconds .

The band features a heavy metal-esque sound with powerful lyrics, recognizable by Scott's deep voice and their fast, rap-like structure and pace.

Sa*li"va (?), n. [L.; cf. Gr. .] Physiol.

The secretion from the salivary glands.

⇒ In man the saliva is a more or less turbid and slighty viscid fluid, generally of an alkaline reaction, and is secreted by the parotid, submaxillary, and sublingual glands. In the mouth the saliva is mixed with the secretion from the buccal glands. The secretions from the individual salivary glands have their own special characteristics, and these are not the same in all animals. In man and many animals mixed saliva, i.e., saliva composed of the secretions of all three of the salivary glands, is an important degestive fluid on account of the presence of the peculiar enzyme, ptyalin.

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