SULLY ERNA: 'I Need GODSMACK To Be Loud And Crazy And Bring The Chaos'

May 13, 2011

L. Kent Wolgamott of Weekender recently conducted an interview with GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

On shuffling GODSMACK touring duties with his solo career:

"It's 'Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde'. That's what it is. It's going to be an extreme change to jump from one to the other. There's some GODSMACK dates right in the middle of the solo thing. That's going to be intense."

On his solo debut, "Avalon", which was released last year:

"It's a huge part of me. I need GODSMACK to be loud and crazy and bring the chaos. I needed the solo project for the spiritual, seductive side. I need both for balance. For me, it's both sides of me. There's no way I can be on 10 all the time, but there's no way I can be on two all the time, either. The music is an extension of who I am."

"[The solo album is] about as vulnerable as it can be. Nobody wants to be that open. We've all done stuff that's embarrassing, that we don't want people to know about. Who wants to be embarrassed? Who wants to be that open?"

"Over the years, I stuffed a lot of stuff inside me. I wanted to use it as therapeutic, a release through art."

On his "Avalon" bandmate Lisa Guyer, a veteran R&B-based singer:

"She's got a four-octave range. She totally kills it. I can't believe she's never had her shot at the big time."

On the "Avalon" sound, which is the result of a collaboration between an international group of musicians:

"It happened organically. Because everybody is from some different part of the world and have different sounds, it's no miracle that it shaped itself to be something interesting."

On whether there will be a new GODSMACK album anytime soon:

"We just finished doing 'The Oracle', and I just got the solo record out. For me, the biggest reward is doing the live performance and touring. I'm always writing. But the short answer is 'no.' I'm not going to write for awhile and just enjoy the tours."

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