PapaRoach

"Six months off the road..." Papa Roach lead guitarist Jerry Horton seemed to be in a bit of disbelief as he spoke to Noisecreep. We caught up with him recently backstage before the melodic rockers took the stage as part of the big Epicenter show in Irvine, Calif...

After just two years, the Epicenter music festival has established itself as a Southern California classic. Epicenter 2011 featured 12 hours of music and 15 bands on two stages, including Limp Bizkit, Staind, Papa Roach, Five Finger Death Punch, Buckcherry, Puddle of Mudd, Skillet, Everlast, Red, P...

It's the attack of the inky black haired and tattooed band dudes, as Escape the Fate will join Papa Roach for a clutch of Spring tour dates. The tour is a mix of headline and radio shows, which begin in the breadbasket that is Kearny, Nebraska on May 12th...

If there was a nuclear apocalypse, Papa Roach would survive. The band, which rose to prominence in the early 2000s, continues to defy expectations and generate more and more career accolades. The band will trek across the US this spring on a tour dubbed 'Raid the Nation...

Aside from the half-dozen photographers gathered on the edge of Harlem, N.Y. at 9:45 AM, it's a normal day at the Yorkville Common Pantry. Inside, volunteers are packing grocery bags with cereal, juice and vegetables. Outside, people who are unemployed, disabled, homeless or otherwise unable to put food on the table are lining up to receive their allotment...

Papa Roach's new album, 'Time For Annihilation,' is a marker for the band. "It marks the decade milestone for us," lead singer Jacoby Shaddix tells Noisecreep when we visit with him and guitarist Jerry Horton in the L.A. offices of their management company...

For Papa Roach, diversity has been the name of the game, topping the charts at the beginning of the decade with 'Last Resort' -- a song everyone knows the words to, no matter if you like it or not. The California foursome never settled into the niche of a hit by trying to recreate the song over and over; they evolved...

Kiss and Eminem on one bill? No, I'm not kidding. The blockbuster two-day Epicenter Twenty-Ten festival, which will be held on Sept. 25 and 26 at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif. -- which is about a half-hour from downtown Los Angeles -- will boast performances by Eminem and Kiss, who will play their only California date of 2010 at the fest...

A new Papa Roach video, 'Kicked in the Teeth,' is available from the band's latest album 'Time for Annihilation ... on the Road and on the Record' (out Aug. 31). The clip was directed by Shane Drake and features vocalist Jacoby Shaddix getting repeatedly assaulted as he walks down the street between shots of the band playing...

Papa Roach, who first burst onto the scene in 2000 with the catchier-than-an-STD single 'Last Resort,' will release their sixth album, 'Time for Annihilation ... on the Road and on the Record' on Aug.31. Their last album, 'Metamorphosis,' was released in April 2009...