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Jacoby Shaddix says more new Papa Roach is on the way amid 25th anniversary tour

'We have songs in a lot of different states'

By Joe Cingrana Jan 22, 2025

Joining host Abe Kanan for a special Audacy Check In is Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix, giving us details on what's next for the group as they kick off their INFEST 25th anniversary worldwide celebrations with brand new music.

LISTEN NOW: Audacy Check In with Papa Roach

Papa Roach is currently on the U.K. and European leg of their worldwide Rise Of The Roach Tour alongside Wage War and Rise Against, celebrating the 25th anniversary of their iconic breakthrough album INFEST -- and the band just dropped their first new single of 2025, "Even If It Kills Me."

The band's 2023 ballad "Leave A Light On," made in collaboration with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) for their Talk Away the Dark campaign was a major accomplishment, "one of the big ones for us," Shaddix tells us. “'Scars’ was another one that was really big for us. ‘Scars’ went multi-format as well. ‘Leave A Light On’ has been one of the biggest ones in years for us… and it's purpose-driven music. But you know, when we zig, then we gotta zag -- this is the perfect zag.”

“It's just got such a cinematic feel to it, and it's just got the big riffs that we are known for, and it's got a hooky chorus,” Shaddix explains of the new track. “I really love the chorus, and it's just one of those songs that when I heard the demo, when the band wrote the music, I just instantly picked up the phone, I called Tobin [Esperance] and I'm like, ‘Dude… I don't even have to think twice on this one, it's go time on this track.’ When we land on those moments, when we're making music, when I just know there's an inner-knowing, there's something magic in that and it always sets a tone for what's to come and what we're gonna write after that.”

“We kicked it off with this one and it just was so inspired. It was the first song that we wrote after we had been touring on our last album, ‘Ego Trip,’ and it was the first one that we went back into the studio,” Jacoby adds. At that point, the decision was made: “’Let's start writing music again,’” he says. “It seems like when we've kind of been out there working and playing songs live, and been out on tour, and hadn't been writing new music in a while… the levee breaks, you know, and that's what happened when we wrote that song -- and we're so proud of it. Just wait till you see the music video for this one ‘cause it's leaps and bounds levels up of what we've done lately with our music videos, and I'm so excited about this one.”

As far as a new album on the way, Shaddix tells us the band had been working in the studio throughout 2024 on a bunch of music, “and we have songs in a lot of different states. There's songs that are completely finished, we have other songs that are like verses and choruses, and we gotta write maybe a bridge or get back there and kind of retweak them and work them. There's another couple songs that are just like acoustic guitar and vocal, and it's like, ‘All right, this one's gonna be a banger. We just gotta go in there and like ‘bandify’ the song. So, we have a ton of material demoed out. Throughout this year, we're just gonna keep jumping back into the studio and finishing up those pieces.”

Jacoby says rather than drop everything at once, he’d prefer to release music throughout the year. “It's going to lead up to an album eventually, whether it's the end of 2025 or early 2026,” he says. “There will be a new Papa Roach album… the music we're making right now is very inspired and it's got us all pumped up. When you go back in the studio, you just don't know what's gonna come, and after we wrote ‘Even If It Kills Me,’ I'm just like, ‘Oh. It's on! Let's go!’”

Now celebrating 25 years since their debut album INFEST, and three decades together as a group, “We have definitely come a long way since 1993,” Jacoby admits. “Over the last six months I've kind of been diving back into the old, early releases of Papa Roach ‘cause I just was doing some purging of things from my home and just clearing stuff out, and I found all these old demo CDs of early iterations of ‘Last Resort,’ stuff well before that. Just kind of seeing where we started as a band and where we're at right now, we've grown so much. To be as inspired as we are these days, it's exciting. Being this deep into our career and still making music that feels current -- It feels like we're like pushing the bar, honestly, and raising the bar, and to be doing that, I'm grateful for it.”

“It’s a testament to our passion, to this craft of what we do,” he adds, “our willingness to shake things up and try working with different producers and seeing how they reflect the mirror back at us. We break this thing down and we build it back up, and I'm freaking stoked where we're at right now.”

Papa Roach, Jacoby explains, is his first and only band. Although people have asked him about solo and side projects, “I get to creatively scratch every itch I want to with this band,” he admits. “Fortunately, it's a band of brothers. We found each other, we met in high school, we all had a love for music in our own way and brought something unique to the table, and we're all so different from each other, I think that's what makes it special. Each of us has different gifts, talents, and abilities that we bring to the table and we respect each other, and we allow each other to be who we are. There's magic in that. It's a really special, unique relationship that I'm grateful I got and I'm grateful I've never walked away from it, and I'm grateful that they've allowed me to be who I am, and have my failures and successes right alongside them.”

After finishing up overseas in early February, Papa Roach is set to make stops across North America with co-headliners Rise Against and special guests Underoath beginning in March. Take a look at the full list of tour dates and grab your tickets right HERE.

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