Godsmack‘s Sully Erna was not a fan of being lumped in with the nu metal scene back in the late 90’s. Revolver recently asked frontman Sully Erna if he feels the group are more of a modern group or a ‘classic’ act and got the following reply:
“Well, we certainly never considered ourselves an Internet band. But then it also always really bothered me that when we came out, it was during a period when the Korns and Limp Bizkits and all that was blowing up and, no disrespect to those bands because they made a huge impact on the music scene, but we got lumped into that category and I used to hate it because I knew we weren’t that.
And our first record was definitely a hybrid of so many different influences that I was personally listening to at the time. I was listening to Alice In Chains. I was listening to Nine Inch Nails. I was listening to Pantera. I was listening to Metallica. It’s no wonder that record was kinda all over the place. But I think as we started to go down the road we began to identify our strengths. We knew we weren’t going to be a rap-rock band. We knew we weren’t going to be a techno band.
Our roots rely on what we grew up listening to. The Sabbaths. The Aerosmiths. The Judas Priests. That kind of straight-up hard-rock/metal sound. And even with that, we never really considered ourselves a metal band. We always rode that line, but we never put ourselves in a metal category. Most of our stuff, it’s more traditional hard-rock music. And that’s who we are, man. We’re just a hard-rock band.”
Godsmack will release their sixth studio album “1000hp” on August 05th.
