Hard rockers Godsmack last released a new album in 2018 with “When Legends Rise.” The album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America, and the album’s lead single, “Bulletproof,” garnered the band a platinum digital single award. The record also hit No. 1 on four different charts, and Godsmack joined just three other rock bands in history to tally four No. 1 rock tracks from the same album. In a new interview with 101.1 WJRR, Godsmack vocalist Sully Erna talked about the band’s next record, and he also hinted it might be their swan-song.
“The first thing to do is these (upcoming) shows,” Erna said. “We have six of ’em to do, last night [being] one of ’em and tonight another one. We have four more to do over the next two weekends. And then it’s pretty loose until October. Then we start ‘touring touring’ in Europe, we do South America, we [play] some international [shows]. We’ll be back first quarter of ’23 with a new record. The record’s finished; we’re done recording it. You should probably be hearing new music by summertime — mid to late summer — and then following it up with a second single and the full record by the top of ’23. That’s the plan. And then we’re just gonna hit it one more time hard and heavy. And I’ve gotta tell you, this might be the last one for us — it might be the last record for us.”
Godsmack formed in 1995, and the band’s debut record “All Wound Up,” recorded for just $2,600, took off after a Boston radio station put it in regular rotation. Shortly after the band hit the road on a club tour and landed spots on Ozzfest and Woodstock ’99. By 2001, the album was 4x platinum (4 million copies sold).
