![]() ![]() Awake's Vampires earned Godsmack their fourth Grammy nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance in 2002. They have charted an amazing total of 13 hits with five #1's including Speak, their hit from Godsmack IV and Awake, Straight Out of Line as well as the twice-Grammy-nominated I Stand Alone (from the Scorpion King soundtrack), which was also the most played Active Rock song in 2002. Godsmack has more top ten Active Rock singles than ANY other group in the history of BDS & R&R. 5 million and their last album IV which also debuted at #1 with over 211,000 records in it's and has scanned almost 800,000 to date. 5 million, 2003's Faceless, which debuted at #1 on the Billboard album chart with over 270,000 records in it's first week has scanned over 1. 8 million to date, 2000's Awake has sold 2. 00) 1998's self-titled Godsmack has sold over 3. With the first, (a re-master of the indie record they made for $2,600. These Boston-based rockers have sold well over 8 million records on their first four albums. Similar Bands: Disturbed, Cold, Staind, Sully Erna, Drowning PoolĬontributors: Vercetti, heck, SinkTrap, discovolante, rockandmetaljunkie, KyokushinMaster, Damon, Dave de Sylvia, Dylan620, ThePalestMexican, 21stcenturyschizoid, demon of surveillance, BrokenChains, Seantmpc13, RowboatK, Slaytan, apriL, tom79, Merkaba33, jason_f90, The Door Mouse, Diabulus in musica, bungalow, The JoZ, NordicMindset, rockandmetaljunkie, Voivod, NikolaiJackenoff, linkjerk, Deviant.Founded in February '95, when lead vocalist Sully Erna decided to step out from behind the drum kit to front the band with bassist Robbie Merrill, guitarist Tony Rombola and drummer Tommy Stewart (drummer Shannon Larkin joined in June 2002, replacing Tommy Stewart). ![]() the band followed upwiththeir first live album, Live & Inspired, in 2012. Agreatest-hits collection, GoodTimes,Bad Times: 10 Years of Godsmack, arrived in 2007, followed by the band’s fifth full-length offering, theOracle, in 2010. ![]() In 2006, Erna stepped behind the board to helm IV, acollection of newmaterialthat reached number one while both retaining the group's trademark heft and expanding its sonic palette. The all-acoustic Other Side arrived in spring 2004. It also marked the debut of ex-AmendrummerShannon Larkin. In January2001,Awake earned the band a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Instrumental Performance for the song"Vampires," and by March, it had soldtwo millioncopies.Hot on the heels of their continuing success, their single "I Stand Alone" propelled the hype of the movie The Scorpion King in March 2002.Asthesingle maintained Godsmack's strong presence at modern rock radio into the summer, founding member Tommy Stewart left the bandin June.TheDavid Bottrill-produced (Peter Gabriel, Tool, Mudvayne) album Faceless appeared in April 2003. The band's audience built slowly but surely, andGodsmack was certified goldin1999, the same year the group was invited to join the Ozzfest tour by the next year, it had sold over threemillion copies, thanks to hit singleslike"Whatever" and "Keep Away." In 2000, the group again played Ozzfest, and released its second properalbum, Awake, that fall. After debuting in 1997 with All Wound Up, Godsmack signed withUniversal, which in1998reissued the LP as a self-titled effort with a handful of new tracks at that point Stewart - who'd left the group in mid-1997 and was replacedbydrummer Joe d'Arco - returned to the lineup on a permanent basis. The Boston-based alternative metal group Godsmack were originally comprised of vocalist Sully Erna (a devout Wiccan), guitaristTonyRambola,bassist Robbie Merrill, and drummer Tommy Stewart. ![]() The band's audience built slowly but surely, andGodsmack was certified goldin1999, the same year the group was i. ![]()
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