PLAY: Godsmack, "The Oracle" [VIDEO]

Posted 2010/04/28 00:20:46
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Godsmack fans have had to wait four years for a followup to the metal band's 2006 gold album, "IV." The wait was worth it. Lead guitarist Tony Rombola has emerged form a self-imposed, two-year wood-shedding with a renewed intensity and expanded vocabulary. The guitar licks have ten-foot-deep grooves. Godsmack has always been a band to balance dark metal with a strong sense of melody. The songs are more than cut 'n' paste riff exercises, and the tempos sit between head-banging and hip-shaking. Yes, it's overwrought, overbearing, and overheated. That's the point. Still, I believe Godsmack. They smack of sincerity and make me long for my days of teen alienation.

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