The Paramour Sessions

The Paramour Sessions is the fourth studio album by Papa Roach, released in September 2006 on Geffen Records and produced by Howard Benson, recorded at the Paramour Estate in Los Angeles, a historic mansion that the band lived in during the recording sessions, an environment that influenced the album's more atmospheric and melodic approach. Shaddix wrote all lyrics; the album's 12 tracks include 'Alive,' 'Forever,' and 'The World Around You,' with the cleaner melodic rock production representing the farthest departure from the band's nu-metal origins to date. The album debuted at number eight on the Billboard 200 with 78,000 first-week sales and has been certified gold in the United States; 'Alive' reached the top five on the Mainstream Rock chart. The Paramour Sessions is regarded as the clearest expression of the band's transition from nu-metal to alternative rock and the point at which the rap-verse framework was definitively replaced by fully sung melodic material. The Paramour Sessions stands as the album that most clearly completed the band's transition from nu-metal to mainstream rock, and its commercial and radio success in the gold certification and Mainstream Rock top-five confirmed that the melodic hard rock approach of its production had successfully expanded the band's commercial audience beyond the core nu-metal fanbase.