GODSMACK Performs To 700,000 People At Poland’s POL’AND’ROCK FESTIVAL
Written by megarock on August 2, 2026
GODSMACK headlined the 32nd edition of the Pol’and’Rock Festival, formerly known as Woodstock Festival Poland, on Thursday, July 30 in Czaplinek, Poland. The massive open-air event is completely free to attend and features multiple stages of rock, punk, metal, and folk music alongside free camping.
On Friday (July 31),GODSMACK frontman Sully Erna took to his social media to share a video message in which he said in part (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): ”I had to tell you guys about this show that we did last night. And although all of Europe has been really lighting up for us, and we’re so happy about that because we’ve been doing a lot of work out here, and they are showing up by the thousands in every country, and all these countries have been great. Athens, Serbia, Bulgaria, top-notch everywhere we’ve played. But last night, we did a show in Poland at the Pol’and’Rock fest, and we headlined this festival that drew seven hundred thousand people. That’s a real fucking number. You can look it up. And, yeah, so pretty surreal. Not even sure it even happened, but it did. And I just gotta say, holy fucking shit. I’ve never seen anything like that in my life. Insanity.”
Erna continued: “The most heartfelt part about this for me is when I was speaking to the promoter and the owner of the festival, he was telling me how this whole thing started, and he visited some children’s hospitals, and these kids were on the floor. They didn’t even have furniture, and he kind of got together with everybody, and he just said, ‘You know what? As a community, we can’t allow this to happen. It’s not who we are as people. It’s not who we are as a country.’ And he started reaching out to all these sponsorships. So this entire festival every year that draws more than a half a million people is completely free to the fans, and a hundred percent of the proceeds above that goes to all the children’s hospitals. I don’t know if it gets any more honorable than that for me.”
