Source: Blabbermouth.net
GODSMACK has offered up a short preview of “1000hp” (One Thousand Horsepower), the first single and title track from the band’s sixth studio album, due out this summer. Singer Sully Erna told The Pulse Of Radio how the song came together. “It’s one of those songs that surprisingly came out and was written from back to front in, like, an hour. I started putting one thing together with the next, and then Shannon [Larkin, drummer] started jumping in and then we arranged the whole song, and literally within an hour, maybe 90 minutes, this whole song was written and it was one of the last songs that we wrote, and it ended up becoming the first single.”
The “1000hp” track will be released to radio on June 9, and a digital single will be made available on June 10. The full-length CD will be out later this summer.
GODSMACK‘s follow-up to 2010’s “The Oracle” was once again helmed by Dave Fortman, how previously worked with SLIPKNOT and EVANESCENCE, among others.
Erna described the sound of the “1000hp” album to The Pulse Of Radio as “a little bit more raw, a little bit more open. The writing was a little freer. The production is really kind of raw and in your face, and the songs, man — I’m really, really excited about these songs. And I have to tell you honestly, I wasn’t that excited about writing this record at first.”
Following the tour cycle for 2010’s “The Oracle”, Erna told The Pulse Of Radio that years of working together almost non-stop were taking their toll on the group. “You know, it was getting rough,” he said. “You know, I’m not gonna lie — the band was getting into a funky place and there was talks about breaking up and, you know, not really staying a band anymore. But you know, I think it was just some time we needed, some time to really reassess the thing and really appreciate what we have as a band. We’ve always been kind of level-headed about things and eventually we just needed to let a little time pass and let the dust settle.”
Erna added that bad blood over the GODSMACK offshoot ANOTHER ANIMAL, as well as his satisfaction with his own solo album “Avalon”, led GODSMACK to the brink before they reconsidered.