Godsmack

GODSMACK have set an April 25 release date for their new album, "IV", through Republic/Universal Records. The album's first single, 'Speak', will be released to radio on Tuesday, February 14. As previously reported, frontman Sully Erna, who has quit smoking and drinking, stated that the album, "...will perk people's eyebrows up again. The first couple of records were kind of the same record, in a sense. They were sort of bordering that metal sound and then the third record had more rock mixed into it. [The Other Side] really softened up the sound. This one is more rock and roll, and some songs are very epic, in a Tool[-ish] sense. Some songs are like old-school Godsmack, like 'Bad Religion.' It's going to service the core fans and introduce some new music to those fans. It's also going to recruit a bigger and broader audience, because the songwriting has matured so much."

Erna said the band wrote 35 tracks for the album and recorded 17.

Between 11 and 13 of those will make the cut.