Faceless

Faceless is the third studio album by the Hard Rock band Godsmack. The album was released on April 8, 2003. This is the band’s first album with former Ugly Kid Joe drummer Shannon Larkin. The songs “Straight Out of Line” and “I Stand Alone” had Grammy nominations for ‘Best Rock Song’ and, ‘Best Hard Rock Performance’ respectively. It is the bands most successful album.

The writing and recording process, according to Erna, was a self-contained one in which the band holed up in a rented home in Miami, Florida and wrote without distraction or influence from the rock music scene going on around them.

On the subject of the album, Erna told LAUNCH Media: “It’s a bit more musical at times, it’s a bit more melodic, but it’s still raw,” Erna said. “It’s still tough. It’s still got that Godsmack edge to it, but it’s not quite as angry, maybe, as the past stuff has been. But it’s still got its rawness…Well, I shouldn’t say that. There’s a couple of nasty fuckin’ songs on this record. But all in all I think it’s just really, I think, some well written stuff. I’m really proud of it.” Erna found inspiration after reading Rush drummer Neil Peart’s book Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road, and penned the new song “Serenity”, which Merrill says is similar in motif to the tribal-drum sound of Godsmack’s past hit “Voodoo”.