Artist: Godsmak
Genre(s):
Metal: Alternative
Discography:
Awake
Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
The Boston-based alternative metal group Godsmack originally comprised vocaliser Sully Erna (a dear Wiccan), guitarist Tony Rambola, bassist Robbie Merrill, and drummer Tommy Stewart. After debuting in 1997 with All Wound Up, Godsmack gestural with Universal, which in 1998 reissued the LP as a self-titled movement with a smattering of new tracks; at that point Stewart -- who'd left the grouping in mid-1997 and was replaced by drummer Joe d'Arco -- returned to the lineup on a lasting footing. The band's audience reinforced lento simply sure, and Godsmack was certified gold in 1999, the same year the chemical group was invited to join the Ozzfest tour; by the next year, it had sold over three gazillion copies, thanks to strike singles like "Any" and "Maintain Away." In 2000, the group over again played Ozzfest, and released their irregular proper album, Awake, that fall. In January 2001, Alive earned the ring a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for the birdcall "Vampires," and by March, it had sold deuce million copies. Hot on the heels of their chronic success, their single "I Stand Alone" propelled the ballyhoo of the motion picture The Scorpion King in March 2002. As the unmarried maintained Godsmack's firm presence at modern rock radio into the summer, instauration extremity Tommy Stewart left the lot in June. The David Bottrill-produced (Pecker Gabriel, Tool, Mudvayne) album Faceless appeared in April 2003. It likewise pronounced the debut of examination drummer Shannon Larkin. The all-acoustic Other Side arrived in spring 2004. In 2006, Erna stepped behindhand the board to helm IV, a aggregation of new material that reached figure one while both retaining the group's trademark heave and expanding their sonic pallet.
