Papa Roach - The Connection (Preorder 29/11/25)

Papa Roach - The Connection (Preorder 29/11/25)

Label: Earache Records - MOSH725LPI - 5055006572537
Format: LP, Album, Dark Blue
Country: UK
Released: 28th Nov 2025
Genre: Alternative
Style: Alternative

Description
As the band explained at the time of the album’s release in 2012, The Connection was
more than just a title, but a mission statement. It reaffirmed the band’s commitment to their
fans, who may have found as much solace in hearing Shaddix’s words as he did in writing
them. In addition, it held a more personal significance. Sonically, it reflected the Vacaville
rockers building bridges between their past and their present, resurrecting their fierce nu
metal elements that they made their name with while amalgamating them with their more
recent experimentations with electronics and hard rock. In this sense, the processes of
evolution and a reacquisition with themselves were tightly intertwined.
Thirteen years on, the time for reconnection has arrived. Earache Records The
Connection’ reissue – the first time it has been pressed to vinyl outside the US - is a means
for seasoned Papa Roach fans to explore the highs of their later back catalogue all over
again, and for a new generation of fans to experience it for the first time. In addition, it also
contains two bonus tracks, “What’s Left Of Me” and “9th Life”, that have never been pressed
to vinyl before. It may have chronicled one of the darkest times of Shaddix’s life, but it also
stands as a testament to how much they have survived.
The reissue arrives amid what’s shaping up to be a sterling year for Papa Roach. It follows
the Earache reissues of 2010’s Time For Annihilation, 2015s F.E.A.R. and 2017’s
Crooked Teeth, as well as the rapturously received Rise Of The Roach arena tour earlier
this year.