In an exclusive interview with Metal Hammer, Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix has shared a message for those who think his band is ‘trash.’
The frontman revealed that although he was reading the hate comments, he wasn’t reading all of them for a reason. “I’m sure there’s a million metalheads that think my band is trash, and that’s fine,” he explained. “If I read all the message boards and really dove into all of that, it would hurt my heart. But at the end of the day, I can look at myself in the mirror and be proud of the creator I am, the man that I am, the musician.”
While the band still receives hate and negative comments, Shaddix believes that 2025 will be a big year for Papa Roach.
“Right now, early in the year, we’ve been working on a bunch of new music. And so we’re essentially pulling the slingshot back. 2025 is gonna be a big year for Papa Roach,” the frontman explained during an interview with 99.7 The Blitz. “It’s the 25th anniversary of our first album ‘Infest’. We’ve got a book, we’ve got tours, we’ve got the whole nine. And we’ve got a whole new batch of music that we’re going to drop. And so new music will be probably coming, like, later in the year — third or fourth quarter.”
“It’s good to get a little calm before the storm, and so I’m taking this year and just creating tons of music, writing for Papa Roach, writing with other artists and really just being as creative as possible,” he added.
Shaddix described the upcoming music as their ‘most savage, insane, brutally out-there’ material yet. While they have worked on other things as well, it’s clear that the focus is on the heavy new tracks.
Papa Roach is getting ready to go on their 2025 tour. The tour starts on January 23 in Frankfurt Am Main, Germany. The band will make stops in Poland, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands, and France before wrapping it up on February 9 in Liverpool, UK.