“I was in a bad place. The booze, my lifestyle, this woman I’d been with since I was 16. I’ve never been that broken”: how Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix pulled himself back from the abyss

Papa Roach with Jacoby Shaddix holding a Molotov cocktail.

Papa Roach are one of nu metal’s great survivors, bouncing back from the brink personally and professionally more than once. But by the time of 2012’s The Connection album, frontman Jacoby Shaddix was in dire straits – and as he told Metal Hammer in this interview from the time, it was music that saved him.

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