Bad Wolves Honor Dolores O'Riordan, Release "Zombie" Cover In Her Memory

Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan was set to record vocals for hard rock band Bad Wolves’ cover of “Zombie” this past Monday, January 15th, the day of her tragic passing. Today the band release their version of “Zombie” in her memory, with proceeds going to O’Riordan’s three children.

“It was the greatest honor to know she liked our version and wanted to sing on it,” says Bad Wolves singer Tommy Vext. “We’re deeply saddened by the sudden loss of Dolores and by the fact that she’s leaving behind three children so we are donating the proceeds from the song to her kids.”

“It’s such a powerful song and the themes are still so relevant, we wanted to release it in her memory,” he continues. “The original lyrics include the line ‘It’s the same old theme Since nineteen-sixteen. In your head, in your head, they’re still fighting’. It’s a reference to the IRA bombings during the Irish Rebellion. We changed that lyric to say ‘2018’ and she was really excited about that because the nations may have changed but we’re still fighting the same battles today. Humanity is still fighting to assert itself despite all the conflicts.”

Vext further discusses the decision to release The Cranberries’ generation-defining song in an exclusive interview with Rolling Stone.

Listen to Bad Wolves cover of “Zombie” HERE.  

Read the band’s original statement on Facebook and Twitter.

IN FLAMES DROP SURPRISE COVERS EP DOWN, WICKED & NO GOOD

OUT TODAY ON ELEVEN SEVEN MUSIC

KICKS OFF BIGGEST EUROPEAN ARENA TOUR TO DATE WITH MULTIPLE SOLD OUT SHOWS

STREAM/SHARE: “IT’S NO GOOD” (DEPECHE MODE COVER)

Song and Lyric Video Via Depeche Mode’s Facebook

November 17th, 2017, New York, NY – Gothenburg-based metal heavyweights IN FLAMES surprise fans with a four-track covers EP “Down, Wicked & No Good” out today on streaming platforms worldwide during SOLD OUT hometown show at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm, Sweden.

To debut their cover of Depeche Mode’s 1997 hit single “It’s No Good”, In Flames are taking over Depeche Mode’s Facebook page for the entire day today, releasing exclusive content and a new video for the song - watch HERE.

The panoptic covers collection also includes In Flames versions of Alice In Chains’ “Down In A Hole,” Chris Isaak’s “Wicked Game,” and a live bonus version of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt”. It sees the Swedish quintet expanding beyond metal to incorporate the group’s varied musical taste and expansive sonic range.

“We’ve been fans of Depeche Mode since we were as young as 10. Getting to do our rendition of ‘It’s No Good’ showed us a different side of the song – it brought new meanings to us. We relate to the lyrics and power of the song so heavily that it almost feels as if we could have written it ourselves. They’re a band that we’ve always looked up to. Growing up, you either listened to Pop, Synths or Rock and even though we are a metal band, Depeche Mode inspired a lot of the electronic elements we use in our music today.”

Earlier this week, the Swedish icons IN FLAMES kicked off a 25 date Co-Headline arena tour with American heavyweights, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH and special guests OF MICE & MEN in Helsinki. Watch an exclusive clip from the show here.

Tickets for the package are flying out the door. With many dates including Paris, Stockholm, Oslo and Prague already sold out and several others major cities approaching sell out quickly, the tour has become this Autumn’s hottest European arena rock show ticket. Secure your tickets now and head over to www.inflames.com for more info and various VIP options.

EUROPEAN TOUR DATES

17 November – Stockholm Sweden  Ericsson Globe – SOLD OUT

18 November – Oslo, Norway – Spektrum – SOLD OUT

20 November – Copenhagen, Denmark - Royal Arena

21 November – Hamburg, Germany – Barclaycard Arena

22 November – Berlin, Germany – Velodrome

24 November – Oberhausen, Germany – KP Arena

26 November – Prague, Czech Republic – Forum Karlin – SOLD OUT

28 November – Zurich, Switzerland – Hallenstadion

29 November – Munich, Germany – Olympiahalle

30 November – Padova, Italy – Geox Theatre

02 December – Stuttgart, Germany – HMH Schleyerhalle

04 December – Paris, France – Olympia – SOLD OUT

05 December – Luxembourg – Luxembourg – Rockhal

06 December – Frankfurt, Germany – Festhalle

08 December – Vienna, Austria – Stadthalle

11 December – Madrid, Spain – Wizink Centre

12 December – Barcelona, Spain – Sant Jordi Club

14 December – Antwerp, Belgium – Lotto

15 December – Amsterdam, Netherlands – AFAS Live

17 December – Birmingham, UK – Birmingham Arena

18 December – Glasgow, UK – SSE Hydro

20 December – Leeds, UK – Leeds First Direct Arena

21 December – London, UK – SSE Wembley Arena

ABOUT IN FLAMES

Since forming in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1990, IN FLAMES have had seven albums debut in the top ten in Sweden, including two #1 debuts. They have toured the globe countless times, performing alongside some of today’s biggest rock and metal acts, including METALLICA, AVENGED SEVENFOLD, DISTURBED and IRON MAIDEN, and have held several mainstage and headline spots at various music festivals around the world, including Ozzfest, Download Festival, Graspop, Taste of Chaos, Hellfest, Rock Am Ring / Im Park and many more.

The band’s 2016 album, ‘Battles’ - recorded by multi Grammy-nominated producer, Howard Benson - debuted in multiple Top 10’s around the World and achieved the band’s first Top 10 single at US Active Rock with their hit “The Truth”.

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NOTHING MORE AND BETTER NOISE RECORDS SCORE FIRST-EVER GRAMMY® NODS WITH THREE 2018 NOMINATIONS

With a focus on the future, the 2018 Grammy® Committee celebrates new and emerging talent in independent rock music today, revealing Nothing More and Better Noise Records as the most nominated band and independent label in rock music.

Out pacing Foo Fighters, Metallica, and Mastodon for the most nominations in the rock categories, Nothing More and Better Noise Records cement their position as next-generation genre visionaries with THREE first-ever Grammy® nominations for “Go To War” and The Stories We Tell Ourselves.

The nominations are: “Best Rock Album” for The Stories We Tell Ourselves, “Best Rock Performance” for “Go To War”, and “Best Rock Song” for “Go To War”.

“We are thankful to the Grammys® and the recording arts community at large for championing the future of rock music,” says CEO of Eleven Seven Label Group Allen Kovac, “When we launched the label and signed Nothing More in 2014, our mission was to break the next generation of rock acts, and that’s exactly what it we are doing.”

“We’re in the middle of our european tour right now and just as we were pulling into Prague we got the news. Three Grammy nominations! We can’t believe it! Thank you so much!” adds Nothing More.

Nothing More’s The Stories We Tell Ourselves (out now) has met with breakout success in 2017, debuting at #15 on Billboard’s Top-200 Album Chart. Further week-of-release debut highlights included: #2 Billboard Independent Album Debut, #3 Billboard Rock Album Debut, #3 Billboard Alternative Album Debut, and more. It features lead single “Go To War”, currently celebrating its second week as the #1 Rock Song in the USA.

Nothing More is currently on tour in Europe with stateside shows launching early 2018. 

NOTHING MORE'S "GO TO WAR" THE #1 ROCK SONG IN AMERICA

Nothing More celebrate massive success at radio today with “Go To War” taking the top spot at Active Rock and becoming the #1 Rock Song in the USA!

The lead single off the band’s latest album  The Stories We Tell Ourselves (out now on Better Noise Records), “Go To War” has been streamed more than 13 Million times across platforms globally to date with synch highlights including the new UFC 218: Holloway vs. Aldo  promo and  War for the Planet of the Apes film trailer plus heavyweight Spotify playlists including Rock This, and The Official Game Of Thrones: Songs Of Fire & Ice.

The track has steadily climbed the charts, winning fans over with it’s furious guitar, driving electronics, and the soul-bearing passion of frontman Jonny Hawkins’ vocal delivery. Inspired by intimate arguments and a past personal relationship, Hawkins lyrical themes resonate universally: “Screaming at the ones we love / Like we forgot who we can trust / Screaming at the top of our lungs / On the grounds where we feel safe / Do we feel safe? Do we feel safe?”

Nothing More’s The Stories We Tell Ourselves has met with breakout success in 2017, debuting at #15 on Billboard’s Top-200 Album Chart. Further week-of-release debut highlights included: #2 Billboard Independent Album Debut, #3 Billboard Rock Album Debut, #3 Billboard Alternative Album Debut, and more.

Having just wrapped a 50+ date US tour with a sold-out hometown San Antonio November 10th, Nothing More launch a European Tour this week which is set to captivate audiences across the globe with the band’s one-of-a-kind live show, featuring the handmade instrument “The Scorpion Tail”. The band heads back to the states in February 2018 to continue their US headlining tour - making stops in New York and Los Angeles.  

Tickets, VIP packages and more info can be found HERE.

Bleeker is Featured In Their Hometown Paper Orillia Today

Orillia’s Bleeker finding fame globally with chart-topping tune

Breakout single entered Top 10 in the U.S.

by Frank Matys (Orillia Today)

Bleeker, an Orillia-based rock group, is finding fame with its latest release, “Erase You.” The band’s third full-length album features the chart-topping single “Highway.” – Steve Carty photo

Bleeker has toured Europe, recorded in L.A. and garnered accolades across the globe for its hard-driving brand of rock.

Regardless of the welcome success, the group remains firmly rooted in Orillia, says frontman and vocalist Taylor Perkins.

“I’m never going to leave,” Perkins, 28, told Simcoe.com during a recent interview. “I love this place.”

The band formed 13 years ago as Bleeker Ridge, but dropped the second half of the name during a lineup change — Ridge having too much of a country ring for a group of rockers.

“We wanted to kind of match the music a little bit more,” Perkins says.

Brother Cole Perkins handles guitar duties and bassist Mike Van Dyk covers the low end. Chris Dimas, of Regina, Sask., fills the drum slot.

Though small in numbers, the group produces a massive sound.

“Cole and Mike know exactly when they need to stay in the pocket or need to sometimes overplay to make up for other stuff,” Perkins says. “They know exactly what they are doing.”

“Highway,” a recent breakout single for the group, shot to the No. 1 spot in Canada and landed in the top 10 south of the border, cracking five million Spotify streams along the way.

Propelled by fuzzed-out guitar, hand claps and throbbing bass, the high-octane cut is included on the band’s third full-length album, Erase You.

For Perkins, a tune’s feel is as important as its message.

“I love lyrics, but if the song doesn’t have the right vibe then it’s not going to work,” he says. “It could be the same song and just be recorded a different way and lose that vibe.”

Recorded in Los Angeles in 2016, Erase You earned the group a Juno Award nomination for ‘breakthrough group of the year’.

“We didn’t expect it at all,” Perkins says. “We woke up to a message from our label and thought, ‘Oh, my God, this is crazy’.”

While indie-rockers The Black Keys stand out as an obvious influence, Perkins points to Joe Walsh and Jimi Hendrix as personal favourites who prompted him to take up music and perform at local venues.

“We used to play at the Second Last Call all the time,” he says of the long-defunct club. “We’d go to blues jams and things like that.”

Perkins later discovered The Beatles and says the experience “changed my life.

“When I finally sat down and listened, it blew my mind,” he adds.

That Perkins and his bandmates would pursue music professionally was “a no-brainer for us.”

Mercifully, their personalities are such that time spent on the road hasn’t resulted in the friction that many bands face in close quarters.

“Somehow we found people that can get along well together travelling months on end in a van,” he adds.

The band has toured Germany, the U.K. and France and plans to return to Europe in November.

“A big thing for us, too, is the food,” Perkins says. “We get to try different foods and beer. We try to make the best of that.”

K!1624: The Ultimate Download Review

5 Reasons You Need To Buy The New Issue of Kerrang!

1. DOWNLOAD 2016 – THE ULTIMATE REVIEW
Did you go to Download? You need this as a souvenir! Didn’t go to Download? This is the next best thing! Yes, we’re giving you a whopping 13 pages of amazing live reviews, photos and interviews from Donington! Relive all the action, from Rammstein, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden‘s stunning headline sets, to the likes of All Time Low, Deftones, Against The Current, BABYMETAL, Napalm Death, Jane’s Addiction, Nightwish and many, many more ripping it up! On top of all of that, we catch up with Triple H on site to talk about Lemmy, we host a Euro 2016-themed penalty shoot out between Neck Deep, As Lions, Vukovi, Killswitch Engage and Kadavar, and you can also find out who wins the Kerrang! Signing Tent Awards! All of that, and we’re giving you a chance to win Download 2017 tickets!

2. THE KERRANG! AWARDS 2016 BANGOVER STARTS HERE!
Our 35th Birthday Awards spectacular went down a drunken storm! Now we’ve recovered (well, kinda) let’s try to piece together the story of the night and look at who won what! This is your chance to relive all the action from the biggest night on the rock calendar, featuring blink-182, Deftones, A Day To Remember, Asking Alexandria, BABYMETAL, Enter Shikari, No Devotion, Against The Current, Don Broco, You Me At Six, Cane Hill and many more!

3. WE RUN THROUGH THE ESSENTIAL ALBUMS OF K!’S LIFETIME!
With last week’s K! celebrating our 35th anniversary, we trawled through tens of thousands of releases that have graced our pages to compile this: the list of the 35 Essential Albums Of Our Lifetime, featuring everyone from My Chemical Romance and Green Day to Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Metallica! Plus the kind folks at HMV are giving you a chance to win them all!

4. MEET THE MEN THAT MADE YOUR FAVOURITE ROCKSTARS!
Ahead of Father’s Day, the stars to tell us all about their dads and the influence they had on them! See amazing pictures and read heartfelt stories by Vic & Mike Fuentes, Chrissy Costanza, Jason Aalon Butler, Mikey Chapman and Luke Bentham!

5. TWIN ATLANTIC STRIKE BACK!
It’s been all quiet on the Twin Atlantic front… until now! They’re back with a brand new album, GLA, and we caught up with them after they played a raucous set in their native Glasgow to find out all about it. Turns out Sam McTrusty is just a little bit excited about it!

PLUS!
This week’s we’re also bringing you reviews of some of the most anticipated releases of the year, including letlive. and Gojira‘s stunning new records, plus the return of Joey Jordison with Sinsaenum. We also catch up with Black Sabbath‘s Tony Iommi to tell us all about what it’s like to be a guitar legend and his time spent mentoring on Sky Arts’ Guitar Star show, Melvins‘ Buzz Osbourne recalls firing Kurt Cobain while making their classic album, Houdini, and you can meet With Confidence – the Aussie quartet putting the pop into pop-punk. On top of all of that we also have New Years Days‘ Ash Costello coming face-to-face with the Ultimate Rockstar Test!

THERE ARE EIGHT AMAZING POSTERS, TOO… featuring Fall Out Boy, Creeper, Pierce The Veil, PVRIS, Panic! At The Disco, Against The Current, Swmrs and blink-182!

All of this is stuffed into the new issue of Kerrang! ­– on sale June 15!

Source: Kerrang.com

The Ringer Interviews Papa Roach's Jacoby Shaddix about "Crooked Teeth", Showmanship, Rock Music + More

“It Just Seems Like Monkeys Thrown’ Shit at Each Other”

Jacoby Shaddix, frontman for the long-lasting and newly relevant Papa Roach, talks about rock music, showmanship, politics, and, yes, Paul Ryan

Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix is arguably one of the best frontmen active in rock, and inarguably one of the most. Onstage at last month’s Rock on the Range festival, he was Extra in the best possible way, a screaming and chanting and swearing and rapping dervish, like the deranged offspring of Willy Wonka and Johnny Rotten. Shaddix puts on a Show; he proudly holds himself up for both adulation and ridicule. He even brought out a local marching band, the Olentangy Orange, to provide backup on a new song called “Born for Greatness.” (The original plan was to get Ohio State’s band, but as Shaddix tells me, “We didn’t fit their standards and practices.”)

Any reaction is better than none; any emotion is preferable to indifference. It’s been this way ever since Papa Roach’s major-label debut, 2000’s triple-platinum Infest, turned the Northern California band into nü-metal superstars, and Shaddix into a rap-rock poster boy. That record’s biggest single, the bombastic and infectious “Last Resort,” has especially endured as a cultural touchstone. In late March, when House Republicans’ first attempt at a major health care reform bill went bust, a faked screengrab of a New York Times article went viral, alleging that a distraught Paul Ryan fled the White House in a black SUV blasting you-know-what.

The band’s ninth album, Crooked Teeth, is arguably their best and inarguably their weirdest in a decade or more, full of candy-coated blasts of rage and triumph like the mental-health anthem “Help” and the societal-ills lament “American Dreams.” Last week, I talked to Shaddix about showmanship, longevity, the dolorous state of active rock, the inspiring state of current hip-hop, and, yes, Paul Ryan. Here are excerpts from our conversation.

What I really like about you guys is you put on a show: With a lot of other Rock on the Range bands, it was mostly dudes just frowning and rocking out. Is it a crucial part of your job to be a showman, to do almost a ringmaster thing?

I mean, isn’t that the fuckin’ — isn’t that what a frontman is? I don’t know, man. I studied a lot of the greats growin’ up. Freddie Mercury was one of those guys, I just think he’s amazing. The way that he commands an audience. I never saw him live personally, but I watched a lot of footage, and it’s like, somehow Freddie Mercury made a stadium feel like a club, and then, when he’d play a club, he’d make a club feel like a fuckin’ stadium. So that’s always been my approach: make it personal, and draw the people in, and interact. I just feel like that’s why I’m fuckin’ there, man. It’s like a moment where we’re all just interconnected. The live show, that’s the last tribal experience. You know?

I’ve seen you in a few places describe Crooked Teeth as “weird” — you really wanted it to be weird, or at least unexpected in some ways. Any particular reason for that?

It just kinda felt like over the course of the last couple records, it became less experimental and less focused on being adventurous. And I feel like this record, it was just time: Either we’re going to just keep making active rock records, or we’re gonna fuckin’ evolve. ’Cause when we first came in, our songs were sprawling, and kind of oddball at times, and we’d just jump into these weird-sounding parts out of nowhere. And we lost that.

This record was kind of a mission to get that back: to still maintain our identity as a fuckin’ kick-ass rock band, but also spread it out a bit, because I don’t know, man. I listen to rock sometimes, and I just feel like it’s just fuckin’ so homogenized — that it’s just, like, one long song. I just fuckin’ — we want to do our best to break it up, you know? Crooked Teeth, it’s got elements of the core, but then it’s got elements where we just freak shit out. Those moments are important.

It’s been out a week or two — do you have a sense of the reaction? Are you freaking out any hard-core fans who just want that core experience?

Oh, dude, the fans are fuckin’ loving it. Our fans know that it’s about the evolution when it comes to Papa Roach. It’s always about pushing it forward. They expect that from us at this point — it was just a little bit more dramatic on this record, as far as how we evolved. A lot of our hard-core fans are coming back with, “Fuckin’ ‘Born for Greatness’ is my jam.” And that’s like a cross between fuckin’ Kanye West’s “Black Skinhead” with some fuckin’, I don’t know, White Stripes crazy rock drop with a cool anthem built on top of it. There were a lot of moments in the studio where, like, “Fuck it! Just try it!” If we string a bunch of those moments together, it just makes it fun, man.

You do quite a bit of rapping on Crooked Teeth. Is there any pattern or logic to how much rapping you do from record to record?

I mean, it’s calculated, but it’s also about just how I’m fuckin’ feeling. I fell in love with hip-hop in the last few years again. Artists like Yelawolf, UGK, Run the Jewels — they’re setting me off again, and I’m like, “Fuck, man, I love hip-hop music again. It’s going down!” It’s a trip, because hip-hop cats are taking a page from the rock-star book, you know what I mean? And it’s like, “Alright, cool. I’ma fuckin’ dip back in your world again and see what happens.”

It’s exciting, man, and it makes it fuckin’ fun and different for me as a writer and as a vocalist. I just felt like this time around, it’s like, if I made everything a melody, it just kinda seems passe and ehhhhh. There’s more fire in what I’m saying when I’m rapping. ’Cause who else in active rock is gonna be rapping on fuckin’ rock music like me? Not many.

Has your fan base changed in a fundamental way since you started doing this? Are they getting older with you, or are you getting a little older, and they’re mostly staying the same age?

It’s a little bit of both. We’ve got some core folks that’ve stuck with it, and just believed it, lived it, for years. And then touring with bands like Mötley Crüe, that got us some older fans as well. But then we’re seeing the demographics skew a lot younger. So we have this fan base that goes from 14 to 50. And for us, we’ve been around long enough to be multigenerational. Where kids are like, “Fuckin’, I was listening to Papa Roach when I was 5 years old!” ’Cause their parents were bangin’ it!

And “Last Resort” is still a classic. It still connects with people in an authentic fashion. Still. That’s what dope. There’s kids hearing “Last Resort” for the first time after fuckin’ jamming out Twenty One Pilots. It’s fuckin’ cool, man.

Speaking of “Last Resort,” do you remember where you were physically when the Paul Ryan Twitter thing happened?

Oh, where was I? I think I was in the studio. Yes. I was in the studio. I remember that, because [my managers] Ian and Jerry were on Twitter or whatever, and saw that pop off, and we were like, “Oh, shit.”

What do you think when that happens? What’s your initial reaction?

I just had to laugh. You know? I just look at American politics right now, and it’s just a fuckin’ shitshow. It’s just, wow. It’s like Idiocracy. I don’t know if you’ve seen that movie.

I see that a lot, people making that comparison.

And I’m like, I’m conservative on some shit. I’m like Chris Rock when he said it: “I’m conservative on some shit, and liberal on some other shit.” You know what I mean? But it’s just, I don’t man, it just seems like monkeys throwin’ shit at each other.

Yeah, I really dig “American Dreams.” Is that inspired by any particular event or feeling? Pretty much everybody feels like they’re being lied to at this point.

Yeah. I was writing that during the presidential debates. When that was going down, I’m like, “I can’t even sit my kids down in front of the television and have ’em watch these two.” They seem like high schoolers. Like, bad high schoolers. I mean, hey, man, they’re both intelligent people. We know that. But unfortunately, it just devolved into this, bleaaaggh.

And so the track, it deals with a lot of just American issues. Street crime. Hate crimes. War. The effects of war on people, on family. And through all of it, it just seems like a bunch of smoke and mirrors and lies that we’re trying to sift through to find the truth.

Have you thought about how political, or apolitical, you want Papa Roach to be?

Ughhhh. I take neither side. I take the human side. I’m a human on this planet. Planet Earth. That’s it. First, I’m a human being. First off, I’m a fuckin’ spirit. Second off, I’m a human being on this planet. And then, you know, before I get caught up in … what my allegiance is to, I feel sort of a higher calling than a country or anything. I just try to serve my fellow man. That’s how I look at the world. And so as far as how political I wanna get or what side I wanna pick, I pick the side of justice. I pick the side of truth, even if it fuckin’ hurts. You know what I mean? Or even if it makes me look like a fuckin’ asshole.

Rob Harvilla, The Ringer

Loudwire Reviews Papa Roach's New Album 'Crooked Teeth'

Papa Roach 'Crooked Teeth' Album Review

By Michael Christopher June 5, 2017 11:16 AM

Papa Roach found themselves in an interesting position going into the recording of album number nine, Crooked Teeth. They had dipped a toe back into the rock/rap leanings of their earliest material on 2012’s The Connection, but pulled it out quickly for its 2015 follow-up, F.E.A.R. Now, two years later, they’ve waded into the deep end again with a healthy mix of old and new. A big part of it is the production team of Nicholas “RAS” Furlong and Colin Brittain, who both grew up as fans of the group and encouraged them to grasp the past while keeping it fresh.

“My Medication” is just one example of how the two sides of Papa Roach’s career can fit onto one coin. Frontman Jacoby Shaddix effortlessly switches back and forth from rapping and singing in his vigorous vocal style. He slips in a bit of the former in the title-track, and does it even more so on album opener “Break the Fall,” which is almost the most striking moment of Crooked Teeth if it weren’t for welcoming rapper Machine Gun Kelly into the fold for a duet on “Sunrise Trailer Park.” Papa Roach have done this before; a guest spot from Royce da 5′ 9″ was featured on F.E.A.R., and if it worked then, why not give a shot this time around?

A stark contrast to the on again embracing of hip-hop is having pop singer/songwriter Skylar Grey teaming up with Shaddix on “Periscope.” The result is one of the highlights of Crooked Teeth, with Grey’s stirring vocals actually meshing well with the band’s sound, which is restrained in just the right way to make it work on every level.

Without the help from outsiders and when not looking in the rear-view, Papa Roach continue their longstanding tradition of fist-pumping, energetic anthems. “None of the Above” has a guitar riff from Jerry Horton bubbling just underneath the surface before it explodes into a familiar theme from Shaddix in the chorus where he is in need of rescuing, in this case, it’s religion that may save his soul, whether metaphorically or literally. “Take me to church / ‘Cause I’ve been blessed with a curse / I arrived in a limo / And I left in a hearse,” he sings.

There are demons chasing Shaddix which aid in a loss of control on “Ricochet,” and on the single “Help,” which sounds like it could’ve been an outtake from the band’s 2002 disc lovehatetragedy, he’s in search of, well, help.

It’s obvious Papa Roach aren’t straying too far outside of the lines of what made them so appealing in both the beginning of their career and in recent years, but at almost a quarter century into the game when so many of their peers have been forgotten, they continue to stay relevant. What’s most compelling about the band, other then their more than admirable longevity, is continually trying to find the balance between the then and the now. On Crooked Teeth, it’s by far the closest they’ve come to giving fans of both eras an equal helping of each, which is no easy feat.