“Greed” by Godsmack

"Greed" was the third and last single Godsmack pulled from Awake, their second album, which came out in 2000, and it finds Sully Erna at his most sneering. He wrote it alone and co-produced it with Mudrock, who also recorded and mixed the track. Tony Rombola's guitar grinds, Robbie Merrill's bass and Tommy Stewart's drums hammer down in lockstep, and the whole band piles in on the vocals: nu metal built for clenched fists.

The video broke the Godsmack mold by actually telling a story. The band is stuck in a crumbling flat under a greedy landlord, who ends up flattened and slumped in his underwear, and the woman from the cover of their debut drops in for a cameo at the start. It's a lighter, goofier clip than the ones before it, intercut with the band thrashing away in black and silver inside a gleaming silver room.

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