GODSMACK Scraps Box Set Idea

August 17, 2007

GODSMACK drummer Shannon Larkin has told the Winnipeg Sun that the band has abandoned plans to release a box set of their first four albums, plus the EP "The Other Side" and a DVD of one of their acoustic shows to mark the group's 10th anniversary. "We're scrapping the box set idea in favor of a best-of (album)," he explained. "We realized that at this point, a box set would almost be a vanity thing ... it wouldn't really benefit our fans at all. So instead we're going to do a best-of, add a new song or two, but definitely include a DVD of our acoustic show in Las Vegas."

Since GODSMACK has basically been touring non-stop for 10 years, Larkin says frontman Sully Erna plans to take some much-deserved time off in 2008. But he also says fans needn't worry about Erna going AWOL again, as he did during the initial stages of the 2006 release "IV".

"He got writer's block, basically, and got depressed ... he wasn't in a very good spot," said Larkin of Erna's hiatus, which allowed the rest of the band — Larkin, guitarist Tommy Rombola, and bassist Robbie Merrill — to have more creative input than they'd had before. "But he's great now."

As for Larkin, he hopes to be able to focus more of his attention on ANOTHER ANIMAL, his side project with Rombola, Merrill and former UGLY KID JOE frontman Whitfield Crane. Though the release date for the band's debut keeps getting pushed back — "We don't want to be competing with ourselves," Larkin explains — the first single is already getting airplay in advance of any official release.

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