ARTIST: Godsmack
TITLE: IV
LABEL: Republic
GENRE: Hard Rock
BITRATE: 227kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 47min total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-04-25
RIP DATE: 2006-04-12
01. Livin' In Sin 4:39
02. Speak 3:57
03. The Enemy 4:07
04. Shine Down 5:01
05. Hollow 4:32
06. No Rest For The Wicked 4:38
07. Bleeding Me 3:37
08. Voodoo Too 5:26
09. Temptation 4:06
10. Mama 5:14
11. One Rainy Day 1:57
Release Notes:
In a recent interview with MTV.com, Godsmack frontman Sully Erna had the
following to say about the follow-up to 2003's "Faceless": "It's a killer record,
and I'm really curious to see what the public's going to think of it. It's still
Godsmack ù I don't think it's lost the integrity of what Godsmack has built our
career off. The toughness of the sound is still there. But we've expanded a
little bit more. After 'Faceless', we started to spread our wings a bit and
reintroduce guitar solos and stuff like that. The acoustic record [2004's 'The
Other Side'] was a departure and it was very well received. It opened up a new
audience for us ù a lot more adults were coming to the shows, bringing their kids
and having a glass of wine. That gave us a permission slip to take it to the next
level.
"It will perk people's eyebrows up again," he added. "The first couple of records
were kind of the same record, in a sense. They were sort of bordering that metal
sound and then the third record had more rock mixed into it. ['The Other Side']
really softened up the sound. This one is more rock and roll, and some songs are
very epic, in a Tool [-ish] sense. Some songs are like old-school Godsmack, like
'Bad Religion'. It's going to service the core fans and introduce some new music
to those fans. It's also going to recruit a bigger and broader audience, because
the songwriting has matured so much."