Godsmack – IV (Reissue 2024) (2006/2024) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Godsmack – IV (Reissue 2024) (2006/2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:01 minutes | 1,19 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Universal Records

According to Sully Erna: “This is the first time I’ve been totally honest, speaking the truth about real situations,” he says. “In the past I was always pointing a finger, whether at myself or someone else, but I’ve come clean with myself and the people I can now love and care about.

This record is about the light at the end of the tunnel, coming out of that funk, recognizing the dark parts of our lives, but committing to finding a way out of them.”

With acclaimed engineer Andy Johns, who worked on such Led Zeppelin classics as “Stairway to Heaven” and “When the Levee Breaks”, as well as albums by the Rolling Stones and Van Halen, Godsmack transitions from their metal roots to full-fledged classic blues-rockers.

Recorded at Spiral Recording Studio in Los Angeles, Godsmack had the luxury, for the first time, of writing and recording IV without being on the road or having to rush to meet a deadline. They wrote 35 tracks, recorded 17, and picked the best of them to go on the disc.Godsmack may never garner the kind of praise that’s bestowed upon its obvious influences (Metallica, Alice in Chains, Tool), but the hard-working Boston quartet has managed to stay at the top of the alternative metal heap for nearly eight years. IV, produced by frontman Sully Erna, doesn’t stray too far from the formula, relying on big midtempo brooders and heavy, drop-D riffs to work in the usual themes of loneliness, betrayal, and the overuse of the word “bleeding.” For the most part it’s cliché done well — the record opens with an audio collage of children saying their prayers before bed — and the band can turn it up to 11 with the best of them. Stadium-sized cuts like “Speak,” “Enemy,” and “Temptation” are sure to please the masses — they even bring out the vocoder for “No Rest for the Wicked” — and fans brought into the fold with 2004’s acoustic Other Side EP will eat up the pensive, mandolin-led “Hallow,” but there’s little growth to be found, resulting in a textbook-executed slice of commercial aggression. – James Christopher Monger

Tracklist:

1-1. Godsmack – Livin In Sin (04:39)
1-2. Godsmack – Speak (New Version) (03:57)
1-3. Godsmack – The Enemy (04:07)
1-4. Godsmack – Shine Down (05:01)
1-5. Godsmack – Hollow (04:32)
1-6. Godsmack – No Rest For The Wicked (04:37)
1-7. Godsmack – Bleeding Me (03:37)
1-8. Godsmack – Voodoo Too (05:26)
1-9. Godsmack – Temptation (04:06)
1-10. Godsmack – Mama (05:14)
1-11. Godsmack – One Rainy Day/I Thought (16:40)

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