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Godsmack is an American rock band from Lawrence, Massachusetts, formed in 1995 by drummer-turned-frontman Sully Erna and bassist Robbie Merrill. After one demo under the name The Scam, the group became Godsmack and worked the Boston bar circuit, where early songs Keep Away and Whatever climbed to the top of the New England charts. When Boston radio station WAAF put Keep Away into heavy rotation, the band went from selling about 50 CDs a month to more than a thousand a week, and Universal/Republic Records signed them in 1998. The self-titled debut arrived that August, entered the Billboard 200 at number 22, and eventually earned 5x platinum certification from the RIAA.

Musically, Godsmack grew out of the post-grunge and nu metal scenes of the late 1990s and settled into a hard rock and alternative metal identity, with influences that run from Aerosmith, Alice in Chains, and Black Sabbath to Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Pantera, and Rush. The chart record runs just as deep: Faceless (2003), IV (2006), and The Oracle (2010) all debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 in succession, Faceless went on to sell over one million copies in the United States, and the band has stacked 25 top-ten rock radio hits with 12 reaching number one across nine studio albums.

Touring is where Godsmack built its reputation. The band played Ozzfest multiple times, toured Europe with Black Sabbath, hit the road with Metallica across America and Europe, joined Mötley Crüe on Crüe Fest, headlined the Mayhem Festival alongside Disturbed, and co-headlined a summer tour with Shinedown, all while mounting its own arena tours behind every album. Godsmack tickets have been a fixture on the North American hard rock circuit for three decades, and the sound has stayed recognizably theirs: Merrill's bulldozer bass, guitar work praised for sounding like percussion instruments, and Erna's snarl, a delivery long compared to James Hetfield's, out front.