Last year’s “Lighting Up The Sky” by Godsmack is the final album of the band

Sully Erna discussed Godsmack’s statement that their most recent album, “Lighting Up The Sky,” will probably be their last collection of new songs in a recent interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station.

There’ll be no more new GODSMACK… I mean, you can never predict the future, but the decision that was made was that we’re gonna go out now and start honoring the catalog of music that we created over the last 30 years and just enjoy kind of the greatest-hits moments.

But maybe they’ll just release singles, who knows?

I mean, it sounds like the smart thing to do these days. Nobody’s really buying full albums anymore. And they make playlists of their favorite songs. So it just seems appropriate for this day and age. But again, another argument for us to kind of dip out while we’re still in the world that we enjoyed growing up in, which was doing full-length albums and having artwork and lyrics and give the fans a whole experience through that body of work that you create. And I just no longer wanna put a year, year and a half of my time and effort and blood, sweat and tears into a piece of art for someone to just tear it apart, grab a couple of singles and move on. So, there’s that. And then there’s just the fact that we have a lot of singles right now. I mean, 27 Top Tens is a lot. That means we can’t even play them all in one night, ’cause we usually average about 15 songs a night. So for us, I just think it’s time that we start honoring the music and the catalog and giving the fans what they wanna hear.

Concert setlists are a bit tricky to finalize.

I am very grateful. So it’s not a complaint. It’s just reality. And when I go to see my favorite bands, like Aerosmith or Metallica or whoever, I don’t know. Do I really wanna hear their new album? Probably not. I wanna hear ‘Dream On’ and ‘Same Old Song And Dance’ and ‘Walk This Way’, and if I leave there and they’re not playing those songs, I’m gonna be pretty mad. So, for our fanbase, I think we’re at that level where we have to honor that.