Godsmack

 Godsmack is  still the wildest concert I've ever been to. They were loud, hard, fast, and the audience members were tearing each other to pieces. I had a pretty good spot to the side and I stayed there away from the chaos of the moshpit. 

A previous playlist featured Sully's solo work along with some of the band's softer tracks. This playlist contains a greta overview to their catalogue working from their newest to oldest. It looks like Lighting Up the Sky will be their last album, or at least their last tour, as they've announced some kind of retirement. I respect that. They know when it's time. Hopefully they'll still make music in or out of the band. 

Their moshpit fans hated their final album. I'm proud to be one of their more sensitive softer listeners. What I love about music is I can move from a soft piano based ballad to a heavy harder faster metal track where someone's screaming their guts out and equally enjoy both of them for different reasons. I can't picture just listening to one of those modes. I'd be bored. I'd be restrained in one mode. You need ups and downs, highs and lows. That's life. The best music and art imitates life.  

"Take it to the Edge" "Bulletproof" "Let it Out" "I Stand Alone" "Voodoo" are stand out tracks for me. "Voodoo" is actually the track where I realized I love their first album. I had heard "Keep Away" and "Bad Religion" and said whoa those are really good songs. Then "Voodoo" came on the radio one late night in Portland where I was living (yes, those were the radio days!) and the song just hypnotized me and that was it from that point. I admit, they lost me on IV and The Oracle, which were really heavy albums dedicated to that segment of their moshpit fans, but they came back around for me at some point. Though their moshpit fanbase surely disliked it, When Legends Rise may very well be their best album musically speaking.