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The Industrial Alternative-Metal four-piece outfit from Boston, Massachusetts
USA, Godsmack, led by frontman singer Sully Erna, was put together in
the mid-'90s including guitarist Tony Rambola, bassist Robbie Merrill
and drummer Tommy Stewart.
Their first album was originally titled "All Wound Up" and
released on an independent label in early 1997; Universal Records signed
them a year later and re-released the record, as a self-titled album,
that summer; during 1999, it cracked The Billboard Top 200 chart selling
4 million copies and generated an incredible amount of Active Rock top
10 smash singles: "Keep Away", "Whatever", "Bad
Religion" and "Voodoo".
In 2000, their second effort, "Awake" peaked at #5 on Billboard's
Top 200 Albums chart and the title-track rose to #1 on The Mainstream
Rock chart; "Greed" was another huge hit reaching the #3 spot
in the same chart.
Stewart amicably departed in mid-2002 and teamed up with Lo-Pro;
with Shannon Larkin on drums the band entered the studio and in April
of 2003 their third LP, "Faceless", was completed; the record
climbed to the top of The Billboard Top 200 chart spawning two #1s Mainstream
Rock smash singles: "Straight Out Of Line" and "I Stand
Alone", the latter of which also appeared on the soundtrack of the
movie "The Scorpion King"; two more single cuts stormed the
Billboard's Rock charts: "Serenity" hit the top 10 on both Active
and Modern Rock Tracks lists, "Re-Align" climbed to #3 on The
Mainstream Rock chart.
In the spring of 2004, Erna and company, delivered "The Other Side",
an excellent acoustic 7-song EP, it reached the top 5 of the U.S. Albums
chart highlighted by "Running Blind", which rose to #3 on The
Mainstream Rock chart and the top 10 hit "Touché".
Godsmack are back with their highly anticipated fourth full-length CD
simply titled "IV"; it includes the Mainstream Rock #1 single
"Speak" and one more Active Rock top 10 hit: "Shine Down".
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