F.E.A.R. by Papa Roach

F.E.A.R., the eighth studio album from Vacaville, California's Papa Roach, landed on Eleven Seven Music on January 27, 2015, with Kevin Churko producing. The title hides its thesis in plain sight: spell it out and it reads Face Everything And Rise, and Jacoby Shaddix explained the idea as squaring up to your troubles and walking through them with his faith at his side.

Shaddix, guitarist Jerry Horton, bassist Tobin Esperance and drummer Tony Palermo play it big and blunt, all chest-thumping choruses and gym-floor stomp. It opened with 24,425 copies in its first week in the US, good for No. 15 on the Billboard 200 and a better showing than The Connection before it. Across the Atlantic it did even better: their first UK top 15 since Lovehatetragedy, and the first Papa Roach album to place higher in Britain than at home.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.