Papa Roach - Ego Trip (2022) [Official Digital Download]

If you were donning your baggies and wallet chains to rock out with Papa Roach in 2000 you probably didn’t think you’d still be doing so 22 years later. Certainly not with bigger names like Slipknot and Linkin Park coming to prominence at the same time. Well, how wrong can you be? For Papa Roach are not only still with us, but they’re an infinitely more challenging, diverse and simply better band than the one that recorded breakthrough album Infest. New offering Ego Trip rips up any semblance of a rule book, rapping it up and rocking it out with the fervour of any of music’s bright young things.

Swerve pairs frontman Jacoby Shaddix with FEVER 333’s Jason Aalon Butler in a state-of-the-nation rock meets hip-hop grind that even includes blasts of sax. Elsewhere, it’s all about the chemical reaction between heft and harmony – instant hits like Kill The Noise and Stand Up jostling for attention. There’s also an unusually immersive production. Take Bloodline – its tumescent soundscapes actually make you think your windows are rattling; it’s more Killing Joke than Korn, and depending on the volume you’re going for, genuinely alarming.

TRACKLIST

1. Kill The Noise
2. Stand Up
3. Swerve
4. Bloodline
5. Liar
6. Ego Trip
7. Unglued
8. Dying To Believe
9. Killing Time
10. Leave A Light On
11. Always Wandering
12. No Apologies
13. Cut The Line
14. I Surrender



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