PAPA ROACH LIFELINE AND METAMORPHOSIS HITS CLOSE TO HOME

Papa Roach’s new album “Metamorphosis” was released last week, and singer Jacoby Shaddix said the album was influenced by his hometown’s recession.

Papa Roach despite their album Metamorphosis, and band Metamorphosis, has not forgotten about where they came from. In fact, their latest song “Lifeline,” sums up a lot of what they were exposed to at the time of the album.

Jacoby Shaddix said that California’s dire financial problems had an effect on their writing.

“You know it during the economic, sorry, kind of the beginning of the economic crisis and also the Presidential Elections were happening, so we were really paying attention to the culture around us and the world around us. We live in Sacramento, where right now it’s the highest rate of foreclosures and people are losing their houses left and right, and there’s like a tent city going up just outside of town right now.”

He talked about that being the inspiration for “Lifeline.”

“That affected the art we were creating because our community back home was slowly, just, hurting. So many families going through it. And that was the inspiration behind the chorus of ‘Lifeline.’ It’s like when you’re at the bottom and you just need help and you’re just searching for that leg up, that lifeline, something to come and save you or help you. Ultimately, in the end, I realized that music is my lifeline. My family are my lifeline. I learned that my spirituality, my friends, my release when I get on stage, I have so many things in my life that are not materialistic that fulfill me.”

Papa Roach is currently wrapping up a U.S. Tour leg, and then in April they’ll head to Europe. While in the U.K., they’ll film the videos for “Days Of War” and “Change Or Die.” Metamorphosis recently debuted on the Billboard 200 chart at Number Eight.