[portfolio_slideshow id=8830] By MIKE CHAIKEN EDITIONS EDITOR After a hiatrus of couple of years, Godsmack is back with a vengeance. Want proof? The Boston-based band’s latest album, “1000 HP,” reached the number 2 slot on Billboard’s Rock charts. Not bad for a group whose last album, “The Oracle,” came out in 2010. The group—currently Sully Erna on lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, harmonica, drums, and percussion, Robbie Merrill on bass guitar; Tony Rombola on lead guitar and backing vocals, Shannon Larkin on drums—is out on the road with the Rock Star Energy Drink Uproar Festival. And the package tour—which also includes Skillet and Pop Evil—stopped in to Connecticut at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville on Aug. 20. (3 Years Hollow and Toy Berlin served as the Connecticut undercard for this stop.) Again and again, the bands exclaimed that hard rock is not dead. And each act proved the point once, twice, three, four times over. For its argument in favor that hard rock is forver, Godsmack stepped out on to the stage accompanied to the sounds of AC/DC’s “For Those About to Rock, We Salute You.” And it was an appropriate way to launch the show as Godsmack ripped [...]
[portfolio_slideshow id=8830] By MIKE CHAIKEN EDITIONS EDITOR After a hiatrus of couple of years, Godsmack is back with a vengeance. Want proof? The Boston-based band’s latest album, “1000 HP,” reached the number 2 slot on Billboard’s Rock charts. Not bad for a group whose last album, “The Oracle,” came out in 2010. The group—currently Sully Erna on lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, harmonica, drums, and percussion, Robbie Merrill on bass guitar; Tony Rombola on lead guitar and backing vocals, Shannon Larkin on drums—is out on the road with the Rock Star Energy Drink Uproar Festival. And the package tour—which also includes Skillet and Pop Evil—stopped in to Connecticut at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville on Aug. 20. (3 Years Hollow and Toy Berlin served as the Connecticut undercard for this stop.) Again and again, the bands exclaimed that hard rock is not dead. And each act proved the point once, twice, three, four times over. For its argument in favor that hard rock is forver, Godsmack stepped out on to the stage accompanied to the sounds of AC/DC’s “For Those About to Rock, We Salute You.” And it was an appropriate way to launch the show as Godsmack ripped [...]