Metal Anarchy

During an appearance on the “Behind The Setlist” podcast, Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix discussed the band’s plans for new music. According to him, the group may focus on releasing singles before working on their next full-length album.

Shaddix said the following when asked about releasing “Ego Trip” through the band’s own label:

“For us, it was, like, just ‘Don’t talk about it. Be about it.’ You can’t just say a bunch of shit. It’s, like, ‘All right. Let’s talk about how we’re gonna create this and then let’s go find the people to do it and then execute it.’ And that’s very important, ’cause that’s the shit that we would get mad about with working with other teams and other people. We’d be, like, ‘Well, fuck, you talked a big game but then you didn’t come through.’ So then it’s, like, we had to talk the big game and dream big dreams and then come through with it. And we’ve hit the mark on some it and we’ve missed the mark on a few things. And I think the thing that we really learned — I’ve learned — is, like, you’ve gotta be way ahead of the fucking… To execute a plan, the vision has to be a year before, a year and a half before. Because to get people to jump into the fucking vision with you, it takes time. I feel like we have a good track record, I guess, song release-wise and the songs that we choose to release as singles.

The thing that I’ve learned is that the life of a song… It’s hard to predict the life of a song — when you release it to the fans and it goes to radio and then you release the music video, how long that tail will be for that, what’s the arc of it. It’s hard to predict those things. And so this next time around, we’re kind of, like, ‘Are we gonna do a full album? Or are we just gonna release…?’ ‘Cause we’ve released so much music in the last two years, whether it’s a livestream of our first album, ‘Infest’; we re-recorded some of those songs; we did multiple remixes; I did multiple guest vocal tracks with other groups; and then we released our whole album; and then we released remixes of songs on the album and reimaginations. And we’ve, like, inundated our fans with tons of art that next time, for the next full release that we do, it’s gonna be, like, what’s the tip of the spear? It’s just gonna be one song that is waterfalled with a reimagination and a remix and maybe a guest that’ll drop a month later, two months later, three months later to, like, reinvigorate the track, but really just focus on one track worldwide and try it like that and see how that goes.

It’s all fucking experimentation; there’s no formula to this thing. People just start doing things ’cause other people start doing things. Really, that’s what this business is. It’s, like, ‘Oh, they did it. That works. Let’s try that.’

I think the next time it’s just, like, more focused. We’ll do a full release down the road, but right now I think we’re just gonna release a few tracks, just kind of ride it for a minute.”

[via Blabbermouth]