"Click Click Boom" is a song by American rock band Saliva. It was released in August 2001, as the second single from their second studio album Every Six Seconds (2001), and later reappeared on the band's next album Back into Your System (2002) as a special edition bonus track.
In 2017, Annie Zaleski of Spin named "Click Click Boom" the fifteenth-best nu metal track of all time.
Composition and lyrics
Saliva guitarist Wayne Swinny explained that the song came very quickly, and was inspired by the AC/DC anthem "Back in Black", which vocalist Josey Scott fell asleep listening to one night. "When we were kids, that was one of the songs you heard every time you went to a concert before the band actually played," Swinny said. "They'd be playing all the big, cool rock songs, and that's one you always heard. It's just a huge classic rock epic, and he wanted to write a song like that. So he [Scott] listened to it, went to sleep, and apparently dreamed it or just woke up with it in his head and that was where 'Click Click Boom' came from".
Music video
A music video was released for the song. The video revolves around a boy who unwittingly finds himself in a mosh pit in which the band performs. Near the end of the video, after being enticed by a girl straight out from the crowd, the boy joins the moshpit. After the end of the song, the boy is shown moshing alone in the empty space where the band performed.
