Papa Roach singer Jacoby Shaddix has confirmed that the band has plans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its breakthrough album Infest this year, but has declined to spell out exactly what's involved.
Speaking to Metal Hammer, Shaddix vaguely suggested that the band could be re-recording material from the Infest days, saying, “We just did some re-recording of the earlier music. There's some remixes and that kind of stuff, just because we're out of contract with the old music.”
He added, “It wasn't about reimagining what we do to it now. We matched it note for note, matched tones, I tried to get my voice to do the same little small inflections, so if we do remixes it sounds just like the track.”
Shaddix told us a while back that Papa Roach was quite a different band in the early days before Infest put them on the map: “Oh my God, we sucked! We were horrible. We were the sloppiest band. Back then we didn't do it for a career, we just did it 'cause we just want to have fun.”
Shaddix also hinted at the same documentary that bassist Tobin Esperance spoke about in an earlier interview, saying, “We're putting together a piece to kind of look back to the early years and recap those moments. And as we were going through the process of putting this thing together, it just brought back all these old emotions and all the s**t that was going on in our world at that time. It was f**king nuts. We were crazy. I'm so glad I am where I am now.”
Papa Roach intends to announce its plans to celebrate Infest, along with “special shows,” by mid-summer — pending the course of the coronavirus pandemic.