Godsmack is a Boston-based band who were simply too undeniable to be ignored. Their self-titled major label debut isn t a calculated, big-budget offering. In fact, it started out as a self-released CD the band recorded in 1996 for about $2,500 with money they borrowed from a friend. Expecting maybe to make back the costs of recording, they peddled the disc to a local radio station WAAF embraced the song Keep Away and began playing the song on hi weekly evening program. Meanwhile, the band was performing regularly on the Boston club scene and soon drew the attention of Paul Geary, a long-time friend of Sully s and former drummer and manager of the group Extreme, who inevitably signed the band to his management company PGE.
     
      Before long, airplay increased dramatically. With the blistering track Whatever (a combustive cut that grooves as it grinds) being spun regularly on WAAF, sales grew at a staggering rate. The disc became the #2 best-selling album at Newbury Comics.
     
      I was really shocked, recalls Sully, Our album began selling 900 to 1000 copies a week! After... (More GODSMACK Biography)