Papa Roach will endlessly be cemented in our and popular culture’s hearts (or, papa tradition…? Nah, that doesn’t actually work as a joke so let’s simply transfer on). They’ve been steadily churning out music for the reason that 90s, with their final album being 2022’s Ego Journey, they usually aren’t finished but. Why would they be? We’d like them (and every thing else good and palatable) as a lot as potential now. The band’s frontman Jacoby Shaddix was not too long ago speaking about new music and in response to him, the band plans on hopefully releasing a brand new album by early 2026.
Shaddix talked to Audacy Examine In about “Even If It Kills Me,” Papa Roach’s newest single, which was launched on January 22. After speaking up what makes the brand new observe particular—upon listening to the demo, he advised bassist Tobin Esperance “Dude, I don’t even should assume twice on this one. It’s go time on this observe.”—he went in on what the subsequent album is likely to be like (transcribed by Blabbermouth.internet):
“So we’ve been within the studio all through 2024 engaged on a bunch of music, and we’ve songs in quite a lot of totally different states. There’s songs which are utterly completed. Now we have different songs which are like verses and choruses, and we’ve gotta write possibly a bridge or get again there and type of retweak ’em and work ’em. And they also’re in all these totally different states. There’s one other couple of songs which are simply acoustic guitar and vocal, and it’s, like, ‘All proper, this one’s gonna be a banger. We’ve simply gotta go in there and, like, bandify the tune.’ And so we’ve a ton of fabric demoed out. And so all through this yr, we’re simply gonna hold leaping again into the studio and ending up these items. Administration’s going, ‘Let’s attempt to hit it later this yr.’ And I’m, like, ‘I wanna launch music all through the entire yr.’ And it’s going to guide as much as an album finally. Whether or not it’s the top of 2025 or early 2026, there will probably be a brand new PAPA ROACH album.
“The music we’re making proper now could be very impressed and it’s obtained us all pumped up. Whenever you return within the studio, you simply don’t know what’s gonna come. And after we wrote ‘Even If It Kills Me’, I’m simply, like, ‘Oh. It’s on. Let’s go.’”
Can’t wait Jacoby, can’t wait!