F.E.A.R. | ||||
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Studio album by Papa Roach | ||||
Released | January 27, 2015 | |||
Genre | Alternative metal, hard rock, alternative rock, rap rock | |||
Length | 36:07 | |||
Label | Eleven Seven Music | |||
Producer | Kane Churko, Kevin Churko | |||
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Singles from F.E.A.R. | ||||
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Metacritic | 58/100 |
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F.E.A.R. is the eighth studio album by American hard rock band Papa Roach. It was released on January 27, 2015.
F.E.A.R. sold 24,425 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 15 on the Billboard 200 chart, charting higher than their previous albums Time for Annihilation and The Connection, also outselling both of them. It is their first Top 15 album in UK since Lovehatetragedy, as well as their first album to chart higher in the UK than in the US. It also managed to chart in many territories worldwide where many of their previous releases failed to chart.
On February 4, 2014, the band announced that they will be going into the studio to record a new album.
On February 18, guitarist Jerry Horton stated that the first single should come out in July 2014, but the first official single (the title track) was not revealed until August, and the single release date was delayed until November.
On February 25, the band participated in a live chat and mentioned that they have already written 4 songs. They revealed the titles of three songs: "Broken as Me", "Gravity", and "War Over Me".
On April 24, during an interview for Loudwire, vocalist Jacoby Shaddix revealed more song titles from the upcoming album: "Never Have to Say Goodbye" and "Face Everything and Rise". On August 30, 2014, it was revealed that the title track, "Face Everything and Rise" would be the album's first single and that the video would be codirected by Papa Roach's lead singer, Jacoby Shaddix.
The album was streamed on YouTube on January 22, 2015, five days before its scheduled release on the Eleven Seven Music YouTube channel.
The song "Warriors" was released digitally on October 21, 2014. As of October 19, 2014 Online Radio Stations started airing Warriors. On October 20, 2014, Papa Roach started streaming Warriors on their YouTube Page
The title track "Face Everything and Rise" was released digitally on November 4, 2014.
The song "Falling Apart" was released on January 18, 2015 on Radio 1 Rock Show on BBC Radio 1 and was released on Christmas Day on Mainstream Rock as the third single.