{"id":2433332,"date":"2026-05-26T21:03:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2433332"},"modified":"2026-05-26T21:03:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T21:03:46","slug":"godsmacks-sully-erna-talks-live-album-new-lineup-2026-tour-future-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/godsmacks-sully-erna-talks-live-album-new-lineup-2026-tour-future-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Godsmack’s Sully Erna Talks Live Album, New Lineup, 2026 Tour, Future Music"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Godsmack<\/a>\u00a0recently unveiled their new live album and concert film titled Live at Mohegan Sun<\/em>, and embarked on a spring 2026 headlining tour<\/a> with support from Stone Temple Pilots and Dorothy.<\/p>\n

Heavy Consequence<\/em> recently caught up with Godsmack frontman Sully Erna to discuss the new live release, the tour, the departure of two classic members, and the future of Godsmack, including plans to record new albums despite previously suggesting that their most recent LP would be the band\u2019s last one.<\/p>\n

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Live at Mohegan Sun\u00a0<\/em>(order here<\/a>) captures Godsmack\u2019s sold\u2011out October 26th, 2024, performance at Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut, which turned out to be the final show featuring longtime band members Tony Rombola (guitar) and Shannon Larkin (drums).<\/p>\n

Erna and fellow founding member Robbie Merrill (bass) have since continued Godsmack with new guitarist Sam Koltun and new drummer Wade Murff, and are in the midst of the band\u2019s aforementioned spring tour. The first leg runs through a July 3rd show in Bangor, Maine, with a second leg launching in September (pick up tickets here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Check out our interview with Sully Erna below.<\/p>\n\n

Godsmack\u2019s new live album and concert film captures an October 2024 concert at Connecticut\u2019s Mohegan Sun that turned out to be the last show with guitarist Tony Rombola and drummer Shannon Larkin, who both retired from the band a few months later. The footage shows an inspired performance, with a rousing reception from the crowd. Is it safe to say that\u2019s it\u2019s one of the most memorable shows of Godsmack\u2019s career?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sully Erna:<\/strong> What I can tell you is for sure, I feel like it\u2019s one of our best pieces of work we put out live. It being the last [show] with all four [classic] members made it that much more important and special and emotional. I love the way [Live at Mohegan Sun<\/em>] came out. I\u2019m not always the biggest fan of recording live or filming live, but to know that this thing was unedited, there\u2019s no auto-tune\u2026 This is straight up a rock band playing their instruments, and I\u2019m so proud of that because we\u2019re trying to preserve the art of music and get these kids away from their computers and their auto-tunes and their running tracks onstage and all this crap that they do that does not allow true appreciators of music to give them the full respect. You can\u2019t go into a studio, sing one chorus, and then fly the other choruses in, and call it a song.<\/p>\n

This is four guys onstage that grew up in an era where that\u2019s what we were taught, looking up to bands like Zeppelin and Sabbath and Rush and Metallica, even the more modern bands like Foo Fighters. These are bands that really play their instruments and it takes tens of thousands of hours sometimes to be able to be that good. So, that\u2019s dedication, and that\u2019s commitment.<\/p>\n

I just watched Journey\u2019s concert from 1981, the Escape Tour [with] \u201cDon\u2019t Stop Believin’\u201d and \u201cOpen Arms,\u201d and all this stuff. And I\u2019m watching them going, \u201cOh my God, this is 1981. This is as live as it gets.\u201d They didn\u2019t even have auto-tune back then, and these guys aren\u2019t missing a beat, not a note, nothing.<\/p>\n

My point is I\u2019m really proud of this because this is a show that not only looks great, sounds great, but is filled with everything a Godsmack fan would want. When it comes to the behind the scenes, the final retirement party with Tony and Shannon, and the final bow onstage. I think it\u2019s just extremely valuable.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Godsmack\u00a0recently unveiled their new live album and concert film titled Live at Mohegan Sun, and embarked on a spring 2026 headlining tour with support from Stone Temple Pilots and Dorothy. Heavy Consequence recently caught up with Godsmack frontman Sully Erna to discuss the new live release, the tour, the departure of two classic members, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2433333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2433332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Godsmacks-Sully-Erna-Talks-Live-Album-New-Lineup-2026-Tour.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2433332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2433334,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2433332\/revisions\/2433334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2433333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2433332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2433332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2433332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}