Godsmack drummer Shannon Larkin told FazerMagazine.com in a new interview that the band has got a tentative list of 18 songs to choose from for its fifth studio album, which the group began working on this week in Los Angeles. Larkin added that the band's recent single, "Whiskey Hangover," is a good starting point for the sound of the next record, saying, "That's what we're going for. It's more simplistic than the last record -- less bluesy, more heavy, but, you know, we wanted to get back to the original sound of the band and what made this band happen in the first place . . . simple heavy rock, so that's where were kind of shooting for on this one."
Although "Whiskey Hangover" was written and recorded to promote Godsmack's appearance on the Crue Fest 2 tour this past summer, Larkin said that the Number One-charting single will be on the new album as well.
The new Godsmack CD is due out next spring, and in a recent interview, singer Sully Erna laid out the band's timetable for us: ["September 20th we enter the studio, we work that until maybe late November, early December, hopefully wrap up the new record. Then we'll deal with the holidays, the new year. We'll start doing our press, new photos, you know, a video possibly, by the first quarter in '10. Maybe release the record in March or April, and then prepare for a world tour come May.
The Creed concert scheduled to be webcast live as part of the launch of a new music site called Rockpit.com will also be made available to U.S. troops stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan and other parts of the world through collaboration with the USO. According to the site's publicist, the show, which will be webcast from Houston this Friday (September 25th), will be delivered in high definition to USO locations around the world, including the two current fronts on which U.S. soldiers are actively fighting.
Velvet Revolver guitarist Slash recorded a new track for his solo album on Tuesday night (September 22nd) with Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters and Nirvana fame on drums and Slash's Velvet Revolver and Guns N' Roses bandmate Duff McKagan on bass. According to Blabbermouth.net, Slash wrote on Twitter about the session, "Great jamming w/Duff & Grohl tonight, the track is a killer instrumental, very heavy
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