Papa Roach have been using a summer tour to showcase songs from their third album, Getting Away with Murder, due August 31st on Geffen.

"The response we've been getting from our fans is like, 'Dude! P-Roach is fucking back!'" frontman Jacoby Shaddix enthuses from a tour stop in Florida. "The new label [the group's previous label, Dreamworks folded last year] believes in this record 100 percent. It's like a new beginning for us."

After the band's debut, 2000's Infest, went triple platinum, expectations were high for 2002's Lovehatetragedy. The record failed to match Infest's numbers, a sales drop that Shaddix attributes to having a video that was too similar to one by Avril Lavigne ("We were like, 'Fuck! How are we going to put out our video if she just made the same one,'" he says) and an ill-fated television ad spot the band did for Pepsi that he calls "the most retarded thing we've ever done."

According to Shaddix, Dreamworks "gave up working" Lovehatetragedy, and Papa Roach were forced to finance their own club tour. The California hard rockers then began writing Getting Away with Murder and hooked up with Hoobastank producer Howard Benson. "We wanted a record that really boomed and was in your face and was really punchy and to the point," Shaddix says, "but not over-polished.

Papa Roach put down fourteen tracks for the album, and -- following the demise of Dreamworks -- roots at their new label, Geffen. "It was kind of scary," Shaddix recalls. "We didn't know what the fuck was gonna happen to us, and then last minute we delivered the record [to Geffen] and everyone's like, 'Oh my God! I can't believe this. Fuck yeah!'"

Shaddix says the album will feature some different sounds from Papa Roach. "I'm really stoked about [the title track]," he says. "It's got a little electronic loop in the background and a sequenced beat mixed in with the drum. Honestly, it doesn't sound like any other band that's out there."