Godsmack‘s Sully Erna has clarified his recent comments that the band’s next album will be their last. Last April, during an interview, Erna said during a radio interview, “I’ve gotta tell you, this might be the last one for us — it might be the last record for us.”
In a recent radio interview, he said, “This is the last record we're ever gonna do. This is the last run around the mill for us. We put every single ounce of energy and emotion into this album.”
He continued, “Especially for me, when I wrote a lot of these songs, it was about my life journey. That's really what the sequence of this album becomes about. Not that it was planned that way, but this really kind of mystical thing happened where I felt like the universe wrote this record.”
That being said, Erna revealed that while this may be their last album, there's no intent of Godsmack breaking up after the touring and support for the album are complete. He explained, “I wanna make sure people are clear about what we're saying here. I’m not saying that the band may be breaking up. What I'm saying is I think this may be the last body of work you get musically from the band. And it's because we're in this place in our lives right now where we've done a lot of work over the last three decades. Without sounding egotistical, which we're not trying to do, we're at 27 Top 10 singles, 11 Number Ones. We could literally do back-to-back nights in an arena and play 15 songs a night and never play the same single twice, let alone the 'B' cuts.”