No one Wished To See GODSMACK In South America

Godsmack was plotting a South American tour for this April, however needed to cancel attributable to lack of ticket gross sales. And certain, there’s loads of “nobody wanted to see Godsmack jokes” to go round, however you do need to surprise what occurred right here. Have been the reveals simply not promoted correctly? Was it actually a scarcity of demand? Possibly a mixture of each?

“We are heartbroken to have to announce that Godsmack cannot get to South America in April as promised,” mentioned the band. “We’re so saddened by this as we have been making an attempt for thus lengthy to make this work, however as a result of lack of ticket gross sales, we merely cannot discover a technique to fund this tour presently.

“Please know we’ve tried everything we could to make it work, but it has now gone beyond our control. We love and appreciate our fans and will remain optimistic that we will play for your country one day. Until then, our deepest apologies.”

Godsmack remains to be planning on doing fairly a little bit of touring, however as a legacy act. In a latest interview, Godsmack frontman Sully Erna revealed the band is finished releasing new music of any form – new albums, new singles, all of it. Completed. Erna mentioned followers do not actually wanna hear something aside from the classics from a band that is had as many hits as Godsmack, and that he is content material with Lighting Up The Sky being the band’s fina album.

“When you go see your favorite bands, and you go see Metallica and Aerosmith, are you really looking forward to [hearing songs from] their new record? Maybe there’s a song or two that you’re digging, but most of the time when you go see Aerosmith, you wanna see ‘Walk This Way’ and ‘Same Old Song And Dance’ and ‘Train Kept A-Rollin’.’ How do you not play those songs? They are the soundtrack to people’s lives.

“And I would prefer to suppose, after twenty-six Prime 10 singles now, and 5 quantity ones, if we pull one other three or 4 off this album, which could be very attainable — it has the fabric — we’ll be at thirty Prime 10 singles. Meaning we might do back-to-back nights in an area and play 15 songs an evening and by no means play the identical single twice, not to mention the ‘B’ cuts. So at one level you could honor that profession and exit and provides the individuals what they wanna hear. And that is what we’re trying ahead to.

“It’s not the end; we’re just ending one chapter in our lives and we’re gonna open up a new chapter and start to enjoy the sunset years by creating a greatest-hits show.”