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Papa Roach is an American rock band from Vacaville, California. Formed in 1993, their first major-label release was the triple-platinum album Infest (2000). The group's success continued with their gold album Lovehatetragedy (2002), their platinum album Getting Away with Murder (2004), The Paramour Sessions (2006), Metamorphosis (2009), Time for Annihilation (2010), The Connection (2012), and F.E.A.R. (2015). Papa Roach has sold more than 20 million album copies worldwide and are known for their songs 'Last Resort', 'Between Angels and Insects', 'She Loves Me Not', 'Getting Away with Murder', 'Scars', 'Forever', 'Lifeline', and 'Face Everything and Rise'. Their ninth studio album, Crooked Teeth, was released on May 19, 2017. The first single from the album, 'Help', topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart in April 2017.
Musical style and influences
Papa Roach has been described as alternative metal, alternative rock, hard rock, nu metal, and rap metal. In their early independent releases and on their first two major label albums, Infest and Lovehatetragedy, the band tended to use nu metal and rap metal. Before Papa Roach released their major label albums, Jacoby Shaddix's singing style was compared to Chino Moreno and Lynn Strait of Snot. Additionally, with their 2009 album, Metamorphosis, as the name expresses, the band felt that their music was going through a transformation to 'stuff that's...harder and faster'. Allmusic has compared the band's recent work to 1980s glam metal, Allmusic staff writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine wrote 'At the close of the 2000s, the quartet has shed the rap and the angst, ditching all the alt-metal accoutrements to become a knowing update of an '80s Sunset Strip sleaze rock outfit.'
In 2004, frontman Jacoby Shaddix said the following in an interview with the Dallas Music Guide regarding the band no longer using rapping in their music: '...the rapping's gone! I don't feel like rapping. I'm just over that...I just want to be a rocker. It's what I wanted to be when I was a kid'. Shaddix has added this remark in another interview: 'We’re a band that tries to walk that line between metal, hardcore, punk rock and pop music, and we do our best at trying to make it all cool'.
Prior to the release of The Connection, guitarist Jerry Horton said in an interview by VerdamMnis Magazine that 'It's kind of a natural thing for us, we've always been changing throughout the years. Of course, there are some things that stay the same in our sound but we do like to try new things to sort of stretch out a little bit our basis and therefore make it more interesting'. He also said that the band was going to explore 'electronic sounds for the next record'.
The band's influences include Social Distortion, Wu-Tang Clan, Fugees, Faith No More, Queen, and Led Zeppelin. Jacoby Shaddix acknowledges Faith No More and their vocalist Mike Patton as a major influence, stating 'Mike Patton is one of my favorite singers. Faith No More, one of my favorite bands of all time. Very inspiring to me. I fell in love with that band at a very young age, and I saw them a few times growing up. I was bummed out when they parted ways [in 1998], but they're doing shows again, which is awesome. As far as influence, the way that I sing, I definitely was inspired by Mike Patton, but lyrically, I approach my songs very differently than Mike Patton does. He comes from a place of a bit more sarcasm... a lot more sarcasm. Whereas I come from that heart and soul kind of place.'
Band members
Current members
Jacoby Shaddix – lead vocals (1993–present)
Jerry Horton – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1993–present)
Tobin Esperance – bass, programming, backing vocals (1996–present)
Tony Palermo – drums, percussion (2007–present)
Touring members
Shawn Westmeister – drums, percussion (2000)
Mike Doherty – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2002)
Wesley Geer – rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2006)
Anthony Esperance – rhythm guitar, keyboard, percussion, backing vocals (several acoustic performances with the band since 2012, all tours in 2017)
Former members
Dave Buckner – drums, percussion (1993–1994, 1994–2007)
Ryan Brown – drums, percussion (1994)
Will James – bass, backing vocals (1993–1996)
Ben Luther – rhythm guitar, trombone (1993)
Papa Roach discography
Studio albums
Old Friends from Young Years (1997)
Infest (2000)
Lovehatetragedy (2002)
Getting Away with Murder (2004)
The Paramour Sessions (2006)
Metamorphosis (2009)
The Connection (2012)
F.E.A.R. (2015)
Crooked Teeth (2017)
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