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SULLY ERNA MAKES ME LAUGH

 Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 at 11:12am by

erna.jpgThanks to MetalSucks reader TTQuick for forwarding me the following press release, which is, to put it mildly, absolutely hilarious:

“While his Godsmack pals are off doing Another Animal, Sully Erna is quietly working on a solo record. The singer tells Billboard.com, ‘It’s gonna be nothing like rock music. It’s gonna be very Native American tribal rhythms mixed with these Middle Eastern bluesy kind of vocals.’”

I have three problems with the above paragraph:

  1. You’re not “quietly working on a solo record” if you do a press release.
  2. Middle Eastern vocals are not “bluesy.” At all.
  3. Sully Erna doing “Native American tribal rhythms” ranks right up there with Sebastian Bach rapping in terms of terrible, horrible, incredibly awful ideas.

I could lie and tell you I’ll never listen to the Sully Erna Experiment at all, but I probably will. So that I make fun of it on this site.

See? So much to look forward to in 2008!

-AR

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  • Wayne

    Godsmack’s cover of “Good Times, Bad Times” is a fucking joke.

    • Whatever

      Hey, everybody who criticizes godsmack can fucking rot. just because none of you have any god damn fucking talent doesnt give you the right to talk shit. So suck of you fucking piece of shit naive arrogant son of a bitches!!!

      • go fck urself

        yeah finally someone with some taste in music! all you other cock-suckin pansy-ass bitches can go burn in hell

  • Sammy

    Yes, it’s me saying this. This will probably be a bad idea gone worse. It’s that taking oneself too seriously thing. I don’t have a problem with tribal imagery. Just can’t imagine someone with a thick Boston accent doing it.

  • http://myspace.com/errol_d Errol

    Sully is the worlds biggest douche!

    • Whatever

      Hey dude, your a douche bag bitch! you think your all cool. Grow up cocksucker! you got the balls to talk shit about people but your like a lot of other people and wont talk shit to their face. Ha ha! you are such a joke. just like everyone else on this website. This website sucks. whoever started it is probably some wanna be dip shit gansta from the country. So fuck you you jealous bastards!

  • Seth

    Did any of you watch Sully on the world series of poker coverage? What a lucky bastard. The best part was watching him get elminated, and Norm Chad saying “And Sully Erna gets Wamboozled! Go home and make more songs with 3 chords!” SHAZAM…he just got his music dissed by a poker announcer…read the writing on the wall Sully.

  • maggot07

    and i thought the tomahawk record from mike patton would be the last time anyone did this, its gonna suck rediculously.

  • maggot07

    re-godamn-diculous

  • http://www.hibernum.net Hibernum

    How amusing. I feel slightly qualified to speak on the subject, having been to 2 pow-wows. And yes, “Native American tribal rhythms” mixed with “Middle Eastern bluesy kinda vocals” is a really bad idea. First of all, the only pan Native rhythms are a pounding Pow-Wow ones that go with the sky high falsettos (now there is something that would work with Metal!). Take away the vocals, and there ain’t much besides 4/4. Oh Sully, you are so ironic, as you sully good Native rhythms like the Black Lodge Singers.

  • Joe

    I’m so tired of everything Godsmack and everything Disturbed. The other morning, I was walking out of my dorm, and I saw some guy headbanging violently to a disturbed song. He has the most annoying fucking voice I have ever heard, and every single song sounds the same. I stopped, looked at him, and for about a solid 10 seconds, I fought back the urge to kill him. Same with Godsmack. Sully Erna goes “hey lets make a album, that sounds exactly the same as the last one, I can go practice my witchcraft, and we can sell 10 records doing it. YEAH EVERYONE REJOICE. Fuck Godsmack, Fuck Disturbed.

    /end rant.

  • http://vince_sucks_my_dead_moms_dick scottymack

    most godsmack is tribal rythms….i am cherokee…so suck me if u disagree

  • Mike

    It was an interview, not a press release.

    Further in the interview, if you have the ability to read and comprehend, it’s mentioned that the album will sound similar to Voodoo and Serenity.

    It’s laughable when a site proclaims Avenged Sevenfold to be ‘good’ and a side project that has no intention of being radio friendly, or a hit (again, straight from the article) to be bad. Besides the frequent grammar mistakes on here, the bias that exists here is what fails to make this a good site.

    Godsmack albums do all sound similar, but I’d be willing to bet that Sully has more talent in his little finger than the entire MS staff combined. I also can’t recall anyone in Avenged Sevenfold possessing the talent to write, play a decent guitar, amazing drums, piano, and harmonica. Nor will they ever. Nor will they ever come close to headlining an arena.

  • TTquick

    Mike – I dont like Avenged 7 Fold either, In fact they pretty much sound how they look. But they will be headlining arenas before too long. That’s all about record sales, and radio play. They are on the cusp.

    Further more, your objection the press release is unwarranted. What I sent the guys was the exact snippet you see above. That’s all I received. On top of that, I dont comprehend how you DONT see the humor in this.

    Just the words “It’s gonna be very Native American tribal rhythms mixed with these Middle Eastern bluesy kind of vocals” alone are something no one can comprehend. Therefore it’s ridiculous and funny.

    Here’s a guy from a very successful band making an album not many, besides die hards, will want. You have guaranteed suckage in my opinion.

    Not to speak for the guys who run the site, but I’m betting they would agree they dont have anywhere near the talent that Shadows has. Otherwise they’d be in bands we all heard of.

    Last comment – No response to my post stating the fact that the band was in fact an AIC cover band?

    Do all of us a favor and forget about posting here in the future. You are too close minded and that’s sad.

  • N-Sida

    Another point of view… popular music artists taking a foray into world music is common place throughout the world. just as it is commonplace for artists outside the US to be inspired & influenced by US music. What’s important to consider is this may be an opportunity to expand a listener’s awareness of other musical styles. And, a multi platinum selling national major label artist has a further reaching ability to gift that opportunity to a large US Rock music audience than the Kung Bushmen of the Kalahari. (check them out). what Erna offers, here, could be exposure for World Music in an arena that is overstocked with the very same complaints I’ve read here about SE. Remember, at the onset of Rock music as we know it, the US market was slow to embrace what was a new and different sound. Yet to this day Hendrix, Zeplin, & Marley sell records or CD’s or are they mp4′s (whatever). Free your mind and your ass will follow…

  • ranger 3

    Well i think its funny how the one dude was complaining about the albums sounding the same. Then trying to talk down on Erna for saying his new music will sound different. What would you like him to do? Oh what make another rock album of the year. Maybe he should go hiphop so you can wear a GodSmack bandanna like 2pac. Get a life his solo show was awsome he even answered questions and played two new songs.Cant wait for the release.

  • Ross Bowman

    Who the fuck are you to criticize an artist like Sully Erna? He has done more in life than you ever will, you sorry motherfucker. If he bent over and took a shit it would be more than you have ever done, with your sorry,shitty,insignificant,little life. My only question to you;Who the fuck are you?

    • Whatever

      yeah! this guy knows what hes talking about. Yeah, fuck you, you rock criticizers.

  • Chad

    damn ross, you nailed it. I agree 100%. Although you may think sully’s “3 chord songs” suck, none of you guys wrote them. It’s not always about how complicated they are, but how catchy they are and how good of groove they have. If you want to diss bands go find some worhtless emo group yelling about hating their parents. Godsmack kicks ass

  • David

    You suck deeply more than Sully Erna, Godsmack, and all others metal band! Get a fucking life!

  • Jennifer

    All you people that don’t think this will be good, just don’t have any music inclination in your heart, whatsoever. I think this is going to be the best thing EVER!!!!! I cannot wait!!!!!!

  • David

    I totally agree with Jennifer

  • Ajinkya

    you know, i live in india, where its difficult to even find a godsmack cd. and i get them from the states because i like this band.
    and theres a couple thousand guys like me in every big city in this country, and in most places across the world you guys havent even heard of.
    and i really appreciate the likes of sully erna trying out something beyond the prescribed americanized sound that everyone is so used to. so used to hearing, so used to bitching about.
    and like many of you here have said, since none of us have any talent close to what the guy has and can’t do a fraction of what he’s doing, why dont we atleast wait for what he has to offer, taste it and then spit it out if we have to?
    and why’s everyone yelling?

  • CSMCK

    ok u piece of shit just a word of advice , to think someone who has over ten million albums sold and multiple grammy nominations a best selling book toured the us with metallica and kicked there ass on stage !!belive me i was there , what cracks me up is if he saw u in person and had read this shit u wrote im sorry but ur ass would be 86d actually fuck that shit if a fuckin fan found u theyd prolly slaughter u and expose ur faggot ass to the world of how much of a pussy u are btw u cant say shit if u aint equal at all .

  • etwas

    Godsmack kicks ass and Sully is a fucking pimp. Try listening to the music before deciding that it will suck

    • Whatever

      Hellz yeah!

  • metal24

    how can anyone in the world hate on sully or godsmack???!!!!! there songs for the most part might sound similar but they are catchy as hell..and the band is tight as it gets.. they are one of the best live bands of our generation period!!! it’s funny how bands that release albums that sound the same (godsmack,disturbed etc..)get trashed yet bands that change (metallica, queensryche etc..) get trashed also..so what is it that u want in a band?? all u god damn hipocrites a band cant release 10 albums and think that u will like all 10!!!listen to what u want and dont listen to what u dont want!!!period!!! stop hating on the guys that put enjoyment into your pathetic life!!!

  • tool

    I hate the fuckin haters, sully is the one making money to play huge as shows, you faggots just sit behind a screen and talk shit cause your lives suck ass! Lame Fucks! 1 chord 2 chords a billion chords, does it really fuckin matter how many he plays?? If the song is good then its good, doesnt have to be shredding all the fucking time ass clowns!