Godsmack’s sophomore album Awake was a turning level within the band’s profession, and followers now have the chance to take the album house and listen to it with further songs. Celebrating its twenty fifth anniversary this yr, Awake might be reissued on vinyl and CD, each with 5 bonus tracks and a particular holographic lithograph. The twenty fifth anniversary Awake vinyl might be issued on restricted version smoky inexperienced vinyl. Each variations can be found for pre-order now.
Launched in 2000, Godsmack exceeded followers expectations with their sophomore album. Containing hit songs like “Bad Magick,” “Awake,” and “Greed,” Awake was licensed two-times platinum, and earned the band their first Grammy nomination for the track “Vampires.” Regardless of attaining massing fame and fortune with their self-titled debut album in 1998, the band made some extent to protect the more durable, rawer sound that put them on the map.
As an alternative of recording it at Lengthy View studios, the place the band had recorded a monitor for Any Given Sunday, it was recorded at River’s Edge—a former warehouse above a boxing gymnasium in Haverhill, Massachusetts. “I felt that we would be too comfortable; I didn’t want to be surrounded by luxury,” singer Sully Erna defined to ABC Information when the album was launched. “We had to stay close to the streets — I had to, at least. I couldn’t get too far away from what got us there in the first place.”
The technique paid off and set the band up for 25 extra years of success. “It was released at a time of change in our country and was a dark and heavy record that fit well with the times,” longtime drummer Shannon Larkin instructed It’s Psychedelic Child journal in 2024. “Its main impact for the band was that radio played it, and after the first record, you never know if they’ll embrace your sophomore release. So, when it started getting lots of play, it definitely had a major impact for the band.” All these years later, followers of all ages nonetheless embrace Awake.
Store for Godsmack’s twenty fifth anniversary of Awake on vinyl or CD now.
