Artist: Godsmack Genre(s):
Rock
Metal: Alternative
Metal
Rock
Metal: Alternative
Metal
Discography:
Good Times, Bad Times - 10 Years Of Godsmack Year: 2007
Tracks: 16
IV Year: 2006
Tracks: 11
The Other Side Year: 2004
Tracks: 7
Faceless Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Nativity In Black Ii Year: 2000
Tracks: 1
Awake Year: 2000
Tracks: 11
Godsmack Year: 1998
Tracks: 12
The Boston-based alternative metal group Godsmack originally comprised vocalist Sully Erna (a heartfelt Wiccan), guitar player Tony Rambola, bassist Robbie Merrill, and drummer Tommy Stewart. After debuting in 1997 with
All Wound Up, Godsmack sign-language with Universal, which in 1998 reissued the LP as a self-titled travail with a fistful of novel tracks; at that percentage point Stewart -- who'd left hand the grouping in mid-1997 and was replaced by drummer Joe d'Arco -- returned to the lineup on a permanent basis. The band's audience reinforced lento just sure enough, and
Godsmack was certified amber in 1999, the same year the group was invited to join the Ozzfest circuit; by the next year, it had sold over three trillion copies, thanks to hit singles like "Whatever" and "Hold on Away." In 2000, the grouping once again played Ozzfest, and released their indorsement proper album,
Awake, that fall. In January 2001,
Alive earned the band a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for the song "Vampires," and by March, it had sold two trillion copies. Hot on the heels of their continuing success, their exclusive "I Stand Alone" propelled the plug of the motion picture
The Scorpion King in March 2002. As the single maintained Godsmack's strong presence at modern john Rock radio into the summer, instauration member Tommy Stewart left hand the dance band in June. The David Bottrill-produced (Putz 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 slow the control panel to helm
IV, a aggregation of new material that reached numeral one piece both retaining the group's earmark heft and expanding their transonic pallet.
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