Papa Roach singer Jacoby Shaddix recently spoke to SNSMix.com and talked about the songwriting and recording sessions for the follow-up to their 2022 album “Ego Trip”. “We’ve got about five, six songs finished up. I’m headed to Nashville later today. I’m going to a NASCAR event and then headed to L.A. to go back in the studio and wrap up some more new tracks. And so (we’re) well into this new album.”
Shaddix added, “We don’t have a release date yet (for the new Papa Roach album). We just wanna get this one perfect before we drop it. But fans can expect new music throughout the year. Actually, after I go in the studio, I’ll jump back down to L.A. We’re shooting a music video for a brand new single we’re gonna drop in the middle of June, and so that’s coming up right around the corner. And that one’s a fucking banger, dude. I’m so excited about this next song.”
Should you expect guest appearances on the new ‘Roach album? “Actually, yeah. I’ve got a couple guests already on this record, but I ain’t gonna tell you who it is ’cause we just wanna surprise you as the tracks drop.”
Shaddix also talked about releasing “Ego Trip” through the band’s own record label, New Noize Records, and if they learned anything through that process that they can apply to the new album, “Oh, absolutely, man. I’ve been a student since I’ve been in the business, and back in ”99 when we first got a record deal, I’ve been taking notes; everybody in the band’s been taking notes. And it’s been a good experience for us. And I was quite fearful of stepping into the role of being a record company executive. But now that we’re two years into it, and we really have learned the insides of the record business, it’s just, ‘Let’s go.’ It’s exciting. So we’re gonna continue that. And we’ve had some great successes on this last album, ‘Ego Trip’. We had four Number Ones on rock radio, and for us that was huge. And then broke into the Top 5 and Top 10 with ‘Leave A Light On’ at alternative. And ‘Even If It Kills Me’, the reimagined version, just hit through the Top 10. And so we’ve got this momentum happening, and it just feels so good. And then we just came off this tour, ‘Rise Of The Roach’, in America and Europe, some of the most successful touring of our career. And so we just feel this excitement bubbling up around what we’re doing, and I’m just, like, ‘Dude…’ This deep into our career, we’re having all these successes. And it’s dope. I mean, I just got a plaque from Spotify for a billion streams. It a really good time to be in Papa Roach and to be doing what we’re doing with New Noize.”
Sounds like it’s no rest for the wicked in the Papa Roach camp. And that’s music to my (our) ears!
