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Power Struggle Nearly Derailed Godsmack

07/17/2014
. (TeamRock Radio) Sully Erna says an internal power struggle nearly brought Godsmack's career to a premature end. Weeks after revealing that a mammoth tour for 2010 album The Oracle almost spelled the end for the band, the frontman recalls another occasion when he was sure it was all over.

It came in the wake of Godsmack's fourth album IV, when guitarist Tony Rombola formed side project Another Animal and roped in members of Godsmack - excluding Erna.

The singer tells Revolver: "After the IV record there were times when Tony was really bent with me because he got to a place where he started to write more, and he wanted more of his stuff on the records. And I was just like, 'Okay but it's still a band here. And me being the main songwriter, don't think I'm ever not going to write music.'

"So we would pick half of his stuff and half of mine and try to make a hybrid of it. But for some reason he would take it personally when I didn't pick this song or that song of his. And so then the guys went and built a f***ing record off of stuff that we didn't use but could have probably revisited later. And that created a lot of sh*t." More.

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