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Jacoby Shaddix has revealed that the Papa Roach have been working hard on writing a follow-up their 2019 album Who Do You Trust?

Speaking to Rock Sound, the frontman gave fans a tease of what to expect from their forthcoming tracks, describing one song as having a bit of “Enter Shikari-ness to it”.

“We went in and worked on this track called ‘Bloodline’. We got in a room together and the dialogue was ‘If we made something that’s just safe right now it doesn’t seem right’. We had to make something that expresses how unhinged and unglued we feel. Safe just wasn’t the mode. We went in and wrote this track that’s just like P Roach/System of A Down meets Devo.

Shaddix continued: “We walked away and played it for my wife and my kids and they were like ‘That’s fire’. It’s almost in a sense got a bit of Enter Shikari-ness to it. I’ve been a big fan of those guys and just how kind of kooky they are. They’ve always been nuts. They’ve been an influence on me as a creative person for years. Not to say that the whole record will sound like that because we never sound like one thing.”

It comes following Papa Roach celebrating 20 years since the debut of album Infest, with Jacoby Shaddix recently speaking to LouderSound about the meaning behind their 2000 hit ‘Last Resort’.

“A lot of people back in the day thought Last Resort was about me because I wrote it in the first person, but it was actually at the time about one of my best friends,” Shaddix began.

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“I lived with him, and he attempted suicide as I was living with him, and that was really traumatic for me to be around, because I’m a 17-year-old kid, and one of my best buds tried to kill himself. That was just fucking heavy,” he continued.

“Heavy on me, and all of our friend circle. And so I just felt like at the time of writing, digging in and talking about my emotions, that was one of the things I needed to write about.”

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