Song · Godsmack
“The Enemy” by Godsmack
From the album IV (2006)
“The Enemy” by Godsmack appears on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations between 2006 and 2007. It was first released in 2006 on the album IV. Its best result is #30 on the WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2006. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #466 alternative song of 2007.
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Godsmack closed out the singles run from IV with "The Enemy" in October 2006, and it went to number four on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, matching "Shine Down" before it. Sully Erna wrote and produced it, and it's aimed squarely at one person: an old friend who kept dropping the band's name once they got famous, parking himself in VIP rooms, promising everyone Godsmack was on the way, then cooking up excuses when they never showed. Erna took it as a betrayal, and the song sounds like it.
The band played it at almost every stop on the IV Tour, WWE made it the official theme of SummerSlam that year and put it in the game WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2007, and fighter Jason MacDonald walked out to it in the UFC.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 30 | WCCC The Rock Hartford, CT | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2006 | 106 |
| 2007 | 79 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2007 | 101 |
| 2007 | 100 | CHOI Radio X Quebec City, QC | CHOI Top 101 Songs of 2007 | 101 |
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