The album also appeared on several critics’ year-end lists, and won a 2003 Metal Edge Readers’ Choice Award for “Album of the Year”.
A collaboration between De la Rocha and DJ Shadow, the song “March of Death” was released free online in 2003 in protest of the imminent invasion of Iraq .
With Shannon Larkin (ex Ugly Kid Joe , Souls at Zero , Wrathchild America , MF Pitbulls) replacing Tommy Stewart , who left due to personal differences for the second time, Godsmack went back into the studio later that year to record a new album that was released in 2003.…
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In 2003, the band signed to Sanctuary Records and released their ninth studio album We’ve Come for You All , praised by metal journalists as a return to form. The band then spent the summer of 2003 on tour with Motörhead .
In 2003, Snider and Franco collaborated on a Halloween-themed project called Van Helsing’s Curse . The project’s first album, Oculus Infernum , was released by Koch Records and featured a blend of heavy metal and orchestral elements in the style of Trans-Siberian Orchestra .
Following their summer 2003 Give Me Ed… ‘Til I’m Dead Tour , with 57 shows in Europe and North America and headlining large festivals such as Roskilde, Heineken Jammin’ Festival, Rock am Ring and Rock im Park (combined attendance of 130,000) and the first Download Festival held at Donington Park…
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They were replaced by guitarist Sascha Gerstner (ex- Freedom Call , Neumond) and drummer Mark Cross (ex- Metalium , Kingdom Come , At Vance , Firewind ), culminating with the recording of another studio album, titled Rabbit Don’t Come Easy , in 2003.
The band returned to the national spotlight on February 20, 2003. At the beginning of a Great White performance at The Station night club in Rhode Island , pyrotechnics used by the band’s crew created a spray of sparks that ignited the makeshift and unapproved, unlisted foam soundproofing material affixed…
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subsequently released the final versions of the songs as their third album, Steal This Album! , which was released in November 2002.
Their first single, ” Cochise “, was released in November 2002