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Three decades into Papa Roach\u2019s career, with enough hits to fill a festival set twice over, Jacoby Shaddix is not interested in nostalgia. Not really. What drives him now is something harder to fake: survival, and what comes after it.<\/p>\n
Because for Shaddix, the story was never just about making it out alive. It\u2019s about what you do when you\u2019re still here.<\/p>\n
In Australia for a co-headline run with A Day to Remember, he sounds wired, restless in a way that feels less like anxiety and more like anticipation.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been like a caged-up animal,\u201d he says, laughing. \u201cI haven\u2019t been on stage for a minute, so it\u2019s really good to be back, making noise with the boys.\u201d<\/p>\n
There\u2019s momentum behind him too. The band\u2019s latest single \u201cWake Up Calling\u201d is already picking up globally, another reminder that Papa Roach are still building something new in real time.<\/p>\n
And for all the years, all the cycles, and all the trends they\u2019ve outlived, Shaddix still talks about music like it\u2019s necessary.<\/p>\n
\u201cMusic has been such a great way for me to untether this tangled ball of yarn of life,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd it\u2019s a reflection of just the raw emotions that we all walk through.\u201d<\/p>\n
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