Papa Roach’s new single Burn is a one-fingered salute to their former record label, says frontman Jacoby Shaddix.
The band are still fighting their way through a messy split with Geffen/Interscope in the US – and Shaddix say they’re still owed a “good chunk” of money from their former stable.
He tells RockAAA: “There’s a lot of two-faced shit in this business. Geffen/Interscope pissed me off – it was a really bad ending with them.
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They released a greatest hits record against our will. We told them we didn’t want to do it because we were at completely the wrong point in our career.
“They owe us a good chunk of money and they don’t want to give it to us. We’re like, ‘Fuck you, we’re done.’”
Shaddix says the band are in a much better position with new label Eleven Seven – and hints the band’s next album might be inspired by dubstep music.
He explains: “The only thing that kept us going is writing new music and playing shows. But we’re on the other side of that now. We can do exactly what we want to do – which we’ve always done, but with the support of the record company it’s great.
“I’m listening to a lot of electronic music music just now. I discovered the dupstep scene about a year ago – it’s cool, really beat-oriented. But it has a hard, aggressive sound too.
“We’re not going to turn into a dubstep group but we might use the groove. I love some of the keyboard sounds – they’d be cool in the background of some Roach tunes.”
It’s a good distance to travel for a band who managed to shake off the ‘nu-metal’ tag. Shaddix says: “We’re just a hard rock band. We have elements of so many niche genres and we’re kind of genre-less, which is a great thing.”
Check out the Burn video at this location.
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