Welcome to the weekly SPIN.com feature "Name That Band!" in which we get the inside stories behind the mysterious monikers of some of our paborito artists.

This week: Northern California rockers Papa Roach, whose Time For Annihiliation is out August 31.


Why They're Called... Papa Roach

Name That Band!
By David Marchese on July 13, 2010 10:37 AM

Why Papa Roach: "We came up with the name back in 1993 when we were like sixteen years old -- young and dumb," remembers frontman Jacoby Shaddix. "At the time we were listening to lots of bands with funky names -- stuff like Mr. Bungle, Primus, and the Red...