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FACING

ot many bands are fortunate enough to stick around long enough to be able to celebrate the 15th an-
Nniversary of their work, but against all odds Papa Roach are doing just that. Having been immediately
stamped with the nu-metal label when their breakthrough album ‘Infest’ spread like wild fire in 2000, it meant
that despite their success they were expected to fade away once the genre had its day. That did not happen.
The journey has been far from easy but with their latest album ‘F.E.A.R.’ - an acronym of Face Everything and
Rise - Papa Roach appear to be stronger than ever.

hen the time arrived to start work on trusting my gut and my heart on the direction of my life,” Jacoby confesses. “I was in a lot of
W‘F.E.A.R.’ not everyone in the band of what I was writing about,” Jacoby reveals. fear going to Vegas, like, “Fuck, am I going to
was ready to do so. Feeling burnt out from Being fearless in the writing process, the singer get lost up in that old school way of living?” Be-
being on the road, the last thing on frontman wanted to lay his cards on the table and let cause I know where that gets me, it gets me
Jacoby Shaddix’s mind was entering a studio. everybody know what was really going on with alone in a room wanting to end this thing; you
“I wasn’t really into the idea at all to be com- him. Alcohol, drugs and women have all been know what I’m saying? I think that going to Sin
pletely honest,” Jacoby tells Black Velvet. “I vices that Jacoby has struggled with in the past City was a perfect place to make a record be-
didn’t have anything written and I didn’t really and when recording ‘The Connection’ (re- cause it was a constant battle of my flesh.
want to get back into the rehearsal space and leased in 2012) Jacoby was dealing with a lot When I went to Vegas I was just about two
make noise; I just wanted to focus on my family of personal issues in his life. Having got himself years sober so I had some time and some clar-
and doing stuff at home.” clean in recent years, heading to Las Vegas to ity, whereas these other records I was writing I
In spite of his initial reservation, once in the record ‘F.E.A.R.’ could have easily led him was just in a fucking mess, I was in a cloud. I
studio Jacoby began to enjoy his time there. back on the destructive path he was previously think just that clarity and that focus really
“Once we got there and started creating it was going down. “The big turning point of my life helped my confidence as a writer and also
great. I learned a lot in the process of this was - I don’t know whether it’s once and for all, walking through a lot of personal fears a bit
record in the form of really trusting my instincts, but for now - I kicked the booze and drugs out easier. ”
PAPA ROACH