Papa Roach is celebrating their Greatest Hits Vol. 2 — The Better Noise Years album on Thursday, March 18, during their exclusive iHeartRadio Album Release Party, and in a first look at the show, the band reveals that they've been working on a new album, and fans will get to hear some of their new songs later this summer.
In a sneak peek of the iHeartRadio Album Release Party with Papa Roach, the band's Jacoby Shaddix talked about the song he wrote for his father, "No Apologies," and then shared that the band has their sights set on a 2022 release date for their new album — but fans will hear some new songs as soon as the summer time. Shaddix sexplained:
"[My father] hasn't heard ['No Apologies'] yet, man. I want to play it for him. I don't want to send it to [him], I don't even know if he knows how to use the internet, to be honest. I just got to drive down in the Hills and go find that old man and play him that track. But, the song is about forgiveness. It's about understanding and moving on. Forgiveness is a powerful theme in my life and being able to let stuff go, because I have a tendency to just ... like grabbing the weight and just carrying it on my shoulders. And it's a drag, it f***s me up, man. It drives me down. So, I had to put a nail in that and just put it into a song."
He added, "When we put stuff into song, it just seems so final to me in a way. And as far as when you guys are gonna hear the record, I mean, we're gonna start dropping songs this summer — later in the summer. So, not sure when you'll hear 'No Apologies,' but new music will be coming out and we're going to build up to a release in 2022, and yeah, man .... we got a banger of an album in the can."
Greatest Hits Vol. 2 — The Better Noise Years, out on March 19, features 12 of Papa Roach's top 10 hits from over the last ten years. With 21 tracks in total, including three unreleased remixes and two unreleased acoustic recordings recorded live at the YouTube Studios in NYC, the collection of singles also features a guest appearance by Asking Alexandria's Danny Warsnop on "Broken As Me" (the original version of the song is from the band's 2015 album F.E.A.R.).
Fans can listen and tune in free for a stream of the exclusive iHeartRadio Album Release Party with Papa Roach on Thursday, March 18th at 8pm ET/5pm PT via iHeartRadio's YouTube channel. Fans can also listen to the show via iHeartRadio's Rock Nation station.