event Godsmack
Also Playing: Five Finger Death Punch and Drowning Pool
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Tue Oct 19
7 pm
Godsmack, Five Finger Death Punch, and Drowning Pool at Roy Wilkins Auditorium
The formula for naming a radio-ready aggro-rock band is simple: Religious imagery plus drug or sexual imagery equals gold! Boston alt-metal quartet Godsmack has it just right, but there are plenty of other options: Needle Jesus! Crucifix Whore! Acid Christ! Godsmack’s latest album, 2006’s IV, sounds like all its other albums, as if the songs were written by a computer program designed to analyze Metallica and Alice In Chains and robotically spit out second-rate imitations. Cheerless and loud, Godsmack may be monikered with religious imagery, but the music is mostly soulless. Popular, though: IV and predecessor Faceless both topped the Billboard chart. A new disc is in the works, and reportedly due next year.
Roy Wilkins Auditorium 175 Kellogg Blvd. W., Twin Cities, MN
The formula for naming a radio-ready aggro-rock band is simple: Religious imagery plus drug or sexual imagery equals gold! Boston alt-metal quartet Godsmack has it just right, but there are plenty of other options: Needle Jesus! Crucifix Whore! Acid Christ! Godsmack’s latest album, 2006’s IV, sounds like all its other albums, as if the songs were written by a computer program designed to analyze Metallica and Alice In Chains and robotically spit out second-rate imitations. Cheerless and loud, Godsmack may be monikered with religious imagery, but the music is mostly soulless. Popular, though: IV and predecessor Faceless both topped the Billboard chart. A new disc is in the works, and reportedly due next year.
Updated 05/18/2011
