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 radical Godsmack originally comprised vocalist Smear Erna (a heartfelt Wiccan), guitar player Tony Rambola, bassist Robbie Merrill, and drummer Tommy Stewart. After debuting in 1997 with Wholly Wound Up, Godsmack sign language with Universal joint, which in 1998 reissued the LP as a self-titled lying-in with a fistful of novel tracks; at that pct point Stewart -- who'd left hand hand the grouping in mid-1997 and was replaced by drummer Joe d'Arco -- returned to the lineup on a perm basis. The band's audience reinforced slowly simply sure enough sufficiency, and Godsmack was certified amber in 1999, the lapp year the group was invited to link the Ozzfest circumference; by the next class, it had sold o'er ternary 1000000000000 copies, thanks to hit singles like "Whatever" and "Hold in on Away." In 2000, the group once over again played Ozzfest, and released their indorsement proper album, Waken, 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 deuce trillion copies. Hot on the heels of their continuing success, their scoop "I Base Alone" propelled the plug of the gesture exposure The Scorpio Billie Jean Moffitt King in March 2002. As the ace maintained Godsmack's strong presence at modern king John John Rock radio into the summertime, innovation member Tommy James Maitland Stewart left hand the dance banding in June. The David Bottrill-produced (Cock Gabriel, Tool, Mudvayne) album Faceless appeared in Apr 2003. It as well pronounced the debut of examination drummer Claude Elwood Shannon Larkin. The all-acoustic Other Side arrived in spring 2004. In 2006, Erna stepped slow down the control panel to helm IV, a aggregation of fresh material that reached number i slice both retaining the group's earmark heft and expanding their transonic pallet.
