7 Heavy Metal Songs About Vicious Personal Feuds

7. Godsmack - Cryin' Like A B*tch

While differing stories exist as to the motivations behind the feud between Sully Erna and Nikki Sixx, it is agreed that the rivalry came about during the Cruefest 2 tour of 2009 where the former’s band supported the latter’s.

Incensed by the ordeal, Godsmack spearheaded their next album with the single “Cryin’ Like a Bitch,” wherein Erna describes an unnamed individual as one to “strut on like on a king telling everybody they know nothing.”

While Erna himself was tight-lipped about the song’s specific intentions for some time after its release, he has since expanded his vague accusations of “rock star garbage” during the aforementioned Cruefest to calling out Sixx specifically and lyrics like “time ain’t on your side anymore” and “living dead by your faded past times” are akin to what he has been quoted stating in interviews.

Even Sixx’s near-lethal drug overdose is considered fair game (“granted a second chance to prove that your arrogance is stronger than you’ll ever be.”).

Their feud persisted for a number of years after the song’s release, though its momentum waned between 2015 and 2016 with no clear resolution.