GODSMACK Performs 'Cryin' Like A Bitch' On 'The Tonight Show'

Massachusetts rockers GODSMACK performed their new single, "Cryin' Like A Bitch", on last night's (Monday, May 3) edition of "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" on NBC-TV. Video of their appearance can be viewed below.

GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna admitted in a recent webisode for the band's fifth studio album, "The Oracle", that "Cryin' Like A Bitch" was inspired by events of last summer's Crüe Fest 2 tour, on which GODSMACK appeared alongside headliners MÖTLEY CRÜE. Sully told Artisan News Service at the time, "There's definitely been some rock-star garbage on this tour that we just have never seen in our career . . . this was the first time that I felt like, 'You know what?! If there's gonna be some people that are gonna treat other people a certain way, then I'm gonna go out there every night and . . . make sure that we make you look old and fat, and go home with a nice big fat paycheck."

According to HardDrive Radio, Erna intended the song as a slam on MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx, although that has yet to be officially confirmed by anyone in the GODSMACK camp.

Samples of some of the lyrics on "Cryin' Like A Bitch" include lines like: "Strut on by like a king/Telling everybody they know nothing/Long lived what you thought you were/Time ain't on your side anymore"

GODSMACK is hitting the late-night TV circuit this week as "The Oracle" arrived in stores today (Tuesday, May 4). The quartet will next perform on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Wednesday night. With a massive amount of touring on the horizon, drummer Shannon Larkin told The Pulse of Radio that the TV gigs are a good warm-up. "That's pretty cool, 'cause when you're playing on those shows, you know that, you know, you're only playing in front of a couple of hundred people in the studio audience, but you're really playing for a million people, you know, outside the whole country," he said. "And so I think that'll get all the butterflies out of our stomach before we even hit the big stage."

The new CD follows up 2006's "IV" and a nearly two-year hiatus from recording and touring.

GODSMACK has several festival appearances scheduled for this month, including a May 22 headlining set at the Rock On The Range festival in Columbus, Ohio.