Metal, Hardcore, Indie, Rock
Godsmack has announced over a dozen European dates for the summer of 2026, including headline performances at festivals such as Leyendas Del Rock in Spain and Dynamo Metal Fest in the Netherlands. As reported by blabbermouth.net, these are their upcoming shows:
July 23 – Athens, Greece – Lycabettus Hill
July 25 – Plovdiv, Bulgaria – Hills Of Rock Festival
July 26 – Belgrade, Serbia – Novi Hangar Luka Beograd
July 27 – Ghimbav, Romania – Rockstadt Extreme Fest
August 06 – Villena, Spain – Leyendas Del Rock
August 07 – Vagos, Portugal – Vagos Metal Festival
August 09 – Madrid, Spain – Sala Riviera (with Nothing More and Thundermother)
August 11 – Barcelona, Spain – Razzmatazz 1 (with Nothing More)
August 13 – Carhaix-Plouguer, France – Motocultor Festival
August 14-15 – Sulingen, Germany – Reload Festival
August 16 – Eindhoven, Netherlands – Dynamo Metal Fest
Godsmack has more Top 10 Rock Songs than Foo Fighters or their hometown heroes, Aerosmith. Stretching back to their four-times platinum self-titled debut, initially recorded in 1996 for $2500, the veteran band’s catalog of hits is enough to fill a marathon set without running out. Songs like “I Stand Alone,” “Awake,” and “Voodoo” are certified anthems deeply encoded into hard rock’s DNA.
Like the antiheroes of a heist movie planning one last score, the Lawrence, Massachusetts-bred quartet takes a victory lap with “Lighting Up the Sky“, dropping one more classic album as they ascend into the celebratory portion of their career. Sully Erna, Robbie Merrill, Tony Rombola, and Shannon Larkin climbed the creative mountain over and over. They are consummate rock fans themselves, so they refuse to finish as one of those bands where fans hit the beer line during “the new stuff”.
“Let’s look at Godsmack. This isn’t coming from an egotistical point of view. But we can play 15 songs a night and still not play all of our Top 10 singles,” Erna points out. “When most people go see their favorite band, they don’t care about the new records. We want to start our sunset years at some point and honor the ‘greatest hits’ portion of our career. Let’s create the biggest and best show we can.”
“Lighting Up the Sky” is undoubtedly a stunning swan song, should it truly prove to be the final studio album of new music from Godsmack. “Surrender,” the first new song in four years, earned well over a half million streams on Spotify alone in its first two weeks of release. Songs like “What About Me” and “Soul On Fire” stand up to anything in the band’s rich multi-platinum catalog. “Lighting Up the Sky is packed with melodies”, assures the frontman. The band’s body of work includes eight albums, four Grammy nominations, two iHeartRadio Music Awards noms, and a Billboard Music Award.
