GODSMACK headlined the 32nd edition of the Pol'and'Rock Festival in Czaplinek, Poland on July 30, drawing an audience of 700,000 people.

The massive open-air event, originally known as the Woodstock Festival Poland, is entirely free to attendees and features multiple stages of rock, punk, metal, and folk music, with free camping available.

In a social media video message shared on Friday, July 31, frontman Sully Erna praised the scale of the show, stating: "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." Erna added: "So I just wanna say props to the Pol'and'Rock fest and Jurek Taborowski for doing such an amazing job.

This is a top-notch festival, and I could not believe how big this was.

It was two and a half miles deep, the audience.

And I'm only saying this because I've never fucking seen anything like that in my life, and I'm pretty sure I never will again in my career.

So I hope this sets a standard to the other promoters out there and helps teach them how this doesn't always have to be about money and huge profit.

Sometimes it's about the communities getting together, doing the right thing and sharing this beautiful gift of music that we have to share with all these people.

And when you do it right, they show up in the hundreds of thousands.

Even Woodstock back in '99 was two hundred and fifty thousand people.

I thought that was gonna be the biggest crowd we ever played in front of — until last night." The Pol'and'Rock Festival, founded by Jerzy Owsiak in 1995 after attending Woodstock '94, has grown into one of Europe's largest open-air music events, attracting hundreds of thousands each summer to the Czaplinek airfield.

GODSMACK's current lineup includes vocalist/guitarist Sully Erna, bassist Robbie Merrill, guitarist Sam Koltun, and former DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Mangini, who made his live debut with the band on June 12 at the Morton Amphitheater in Riverside, Missouri, following the departure of Wade Murff.

Murff joined the band in early May and played more than a dozen shows between May 8 at Welcome To Rockville in Daytona Beach, Florida, and May 30 in Houston, Texas, replacing longtime drummer Shannon Larkin, who quit in late 2024, along with guitarist Tony Rombola, who also chose not to tour."