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=== === One of the band members had a cold sore. Sully Erna, the lead singer, made fun of him for it. The next morning, Sully woke up with a cold sore, and the band members said "God Smacked you." The name sounded good, and it stuck.
..contrary to the above fiction, the band took their name from a song by Alice in Chains, as a tribute to the original band
Actually the first answer came from Sully himself...I am more apt to believing him than anyone else. Godsmack originally was a slang word for very high grade and pure heroin, and a killing dose therof. Street heroin is classified numerically from 1-4. Heroin # 4 may be up to 80% pure. Heroin of this purity is usually lethal if injected uncut. It is said the last thing an addict sees before he dies is God, therefore, Godsmack. The word smack was an early slang for heroin, so a fatal overdose is referred to as Godsmack.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 15y agoBecause one of the band members got a cold sore one day and they where making fun of him about it and he said god would get them back for it some day well the next day one of them ended up with a cold sore and they laughed about it then he said see you got GOD SMACKED ! then there name spun off of that joke. godsmack
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∙ 7y agoApparently it was coined after Sully Erna had someone refer to an incident that happened to him as "God smacking him in the face".
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