| Product Summary | | Label: Uni/universal Records | | UPC: 00601215968828 | | Release Date: 10/31/2000 | | Buy.com Sku: 60445409 | | Item#: M5H2M5 | Format:  CD |
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(P) 2000 Universal Motown Records, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
(C) 2000 Universal Records, a Division of UMG Recordings, Inc.
| Godsmack, consisting of Tony Rombola - guitar, Robbie Merrill - bass, Tommy Stewart- drums, Awake's again. The secrets out on this band that was the best kept secret in the New England states for years. Following their latest smash album self titled "Godsmack" and selling over a million copies, this band is offering another dose of their brash music.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | This is an Enhanced CD which contains regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | Godsmack: Tony (vocals, guitar); Robbie (vocals, bass); Tommy (vocals, drums); Sully (vocals). | | Additional personnel: Katrina Chester (vocals). | | Recorded at River's Edge Productions, Haverhill, Massachusetts. | | "Vampires" was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. | | This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files. | | Boston's Godsmack were poised at the forefront of the alternative metal (or "new metal") scene that surged from underground to mainstream throughout the 1990s. Drawing on the rhythmic groovemetal groundwork laid by bands such as Pantera and Tool, Godsmack are a modern-day, meaner, funkier Metallica. The group made a sizable splash with its self-titled 1998 debut, but Godsmack's longevity is put to the test on the merit of its second Republic Records release, AWAKE. With the melodic, bluesy, Alice In Chains-flavored "Goin' Down" and the Sabbathy "Mistakes," Godsmack run little risk of disappointing their dedicated, computer-savvy fanbase. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 10/31/2000 | | Original Release Date : 2000 | | Catalog ID : 159 688 | | Label : Republic Records | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00601215968828 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Q (6/01, p.106)
- 4 stars out of 5 - "...Displaying greater confidence and density....Incontrovertible proof that Godsmack are no one-album-wonders..."CMJ (12/00, p.57)
- "...Beats its generic '90s-era Metallica formula into the ground as Erna once again summons up the demon within with his James Hetfield-derived howl..." San Antonio Express-News 8 of 10
...Awake hits stores on Halloween and will surely fly off the shelves like the proverbial bat out of hell. Heavier, angrier and darker that 1988's triple-platinum Godsmack, Awake proves the Boston-based band is worth of its place near the top of the modern-rock hierarchy... Awake serves notice that the band's inaugural success was no trick.
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| | Bio | | Not long ago, Godsmack was still New England's best-kept secret, a local band with a raw, surging sound and a rabid hometown following. That was then. Over the course of fourteen months, they've toured the world, set the record for most weeks on Billboard's active rock chart, sold over a million copies of their self-titled debut and garnered four Boston Music Award nominations. Rolling Stone described Godsmack as "hard as nails and cranked to eleven," while Alternative Press praised the band for its "churning, riff-driven hybrid of all that is heavy, past and present." Says vocalist Sully Ern, "Sometimes the four of us look at each other in disbelief...all this stuff is almost too good to be true. When we heard the album had gone platinum, we were in shock. Up until that point, we were still trying to comprehend the fact that it had gone gold." Sully, who played drums for the now-defunct Strip Mind, formed Godsmack in 1995, with friend/bassist Robbie Merrill and drummer Tommy Stewart, solidifying the lineup shortly after with the addition of guitarist Tony Rombola. Godsmack's rapid rise through the rock ranks can be traced back to Boston's New Alliance Studios in 1996. With money borrowed from a friend, the band recorded their debut album in just three days for the bargain basement price of $2,500. Hoping to break even, they peddled the disc to a local retail chain, Newbury Comics, the only outlet that agreed to carry the album. Shortly thereafter, Rocko, a disc jockey at local radio station WAAF embraced the song "Keep Away," and began spinning the track on his weekly evening program. Before long, airplay increased dramatically, with several other New England stations on board spinning "Whatever," and sales grew at a staggering rate. Says Sully, "We had been selling maybe 50 copies a month at the time WAAF picked up the album. All of a sudden we started moving over a thousand records a week. It was insane. Even crazier, I was doing all this from my bedroom. After years of grinding away, things finally started taking off." After meeting with several interested labels, Godsmack chose to sign with Republic Records in July 1998. Coming off their unbelievable year Sully comments, "We've been working so hard that we almost didn't notice what was happening. It's only when we look back that we realize what we've accomplished. To be honest, we couldn't have written this story any better."
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