PAPA ROACH Frontman Still Friends With Ex-Drummer

April 22, 2008

The Pulse of Radio reports: PAPA ROACH recently announced that the band will enter the studio in May to begin recording its next album, titled "Days of War, Nights of Love". The group also officially welcomed ex-UNWRITTEN LAW drummer Tony Palermo into the lineup. Palermo replaced founding drummer Dave Buckner last year after Buckner went down with substance abuse issues. Although the band made Buckner's departure permanent a few months back, PAPA ROACH singer Jacoby Shaddix told The Pulse of Radio things are good with his old friend. "Dave's doing really well," he said. "I saw him like two weeks ago at my kid's birthday party, he came up and hung, so we're still friends. It's just, it's tough, you know. I told him, I was like, 'Man, I miss you. I miss you to death, Dave,' you know, and it is tough, but we both know that we're all doing the right thing. That helps, so there's not really, there's no bad blood there."

PAPA ROACH has recruited producer Jay Baumgardner to work on the band's new record. Baumgardner produced PAPA ROACH's triple-platinum 2000 major label debut, "Infest".

Shaddix recently told The Pulse of Radio that he wants the next PAPA ROACH album to sound like "LED ZEPPELIN meets RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE. Heavy but funky."

PAPA ROACH has been writing its next album at Paramour Mansion in Los Angeles. The group wrote and partially recorded its last effort, 2006's "The Paramour Sessions", at the same location.

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