Godsmack

Despite being raised in California’s San Francisco Bay Area in a predominantly white neighbourhood with nothing but skaters & punks for best friends, I never liked Godsmack in any way, shape or form, considering it a death sentence to my sonic reputation if they ever found their way into my library or even my speakers; I would literally fight my friends if they ever dared to put them, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Primus or any other associated acts on in my car, believing such a heinous act would suddenly convince me to shave a soul patch & start wearing backward-hats with khaki shorts & a pooka-shell necklace – After years upon years of resisting the otherness of Godsmack, their latest record When Legends Rise somehow happened to come on auto-play following a Prefab Sprout album, but rather than instantly bursting into flames I found myself…tapping my foot & nodding my head along to the music?! Clearly, some witchcraft is going on & I’m not quite sure how I feel about it.