In a recent interview with The Jasta Show, Jacoby Shaddix discussed Papa Roach’s goal to create their ‘heaviest song.’
“We’ve been getting in the studio for the last five months. I’d say probably about 10 days a month we’re together,” the singer said of their plans for new music. “We’ll go, write, create, step away, trip out on what we created, and finetune it the next time.”
He added, “And now we’ve got seven or eight songs. And the first kind of go-around for us, we went in… ‘Cause our current single, it’s an acoustic song; it’s very heartfelt. And we’re, like, ‘All right, let’s flip the script. We need to go write the heaviest P-Roach we possibly could ever write.”
“Let’s just go see what that sounds like. Let’s go experiment in the studio.’ And so we’ve done that a few times over, and some of the stuff that we’re… We’ve drop-tuned some of the stuff. We’re messing with some of the tunings, which then adds even a heavier element to it,” Shaddix also shared.
The vocalist noted, “And you know I love heavy music. It’s something that is in my blood as well. I’m a fan of many styles. And it just feels natural to wanna lean into that heavy sound for us right now. And I’m excited. I feel inspired about creating.”
“ I’m going to visit my son for a few days and then right after that, I’m going back in the studio and writing new music. We’ve got seven songs, seven pieces of music already in the can,” Jacoby also said of the new album in March.
He continued, “Well, not in the can necessarily, but four of them probably could be finished up. Three of them are already finished. And so we have a good momentum of creativity that we really wanna take advantage of. ‘Cause we’re not on the road. So it’s good for us to get together and be creative and make music and just keep flexing that muscle.”
Papa Roach’s latest album ‘Ego Trip’ arrived in 2022. The band’s next show is in Mexico on November 9.