Getting Away with Murder

Getting Away with Murder is the third studio album by Papa Roach, released in July 2004 on DreamWorks Records and produced by Howard Benson, the album that moved the band's sound closer to mainstream hard rock and away from the rap elements of the first two albums, reflecting the broader nu-metal commercial decline and an attempt to establish a more durable rock identity. Shaddix wrote all lyrics; 'Getting Away with Murder,' 'Scars,' and 'Take Me' were the principal singles, with the cleaner melodic presentation and reduced rap content marking a deliberate stylistic shift. The album debuted at number six on the Billboard 200 with 113,000 first-week sales and has been certified platinum in the United States; 'Scars' was the commercial lead single and became the band's most downloaded track for several years. Getting Away with Murder is the album that most clearly marks the transition from nu-metal to mainstream rock in the Papa Roach catalog. Getting Away with Murder's commercial success and its explicit movement away from rap elements demonstrated that the band's survival of the nu-metal decline required a stylistic evolution, and the album's platinum certification confirmed that the core Papa Roach audience was prepared to follow them into mainstream hard rock territory regardless of the genre classification.