Papa Roach's tour sprouts Midwestern, Eastern legs

Several new dates in the Midwest and East have been added to Papa Roach's fast-approaching winter/spring club tour, now set to visit more than 25 cities.

Before launching the tour of the U.S. and Canada, the band is set to play a Feb. 9 gig with Marilyn Manson at Mexico City's Sports Palace. Skindred and The F-Ups support on the dates that follow.

Papa Roach continues to support its latest release, last year's "Getting Away with Murder." Thanks to the success of its title track and follow-up single, "Scars," the set has sold more than 400,000 copies since its September release, according to the band's publicist.

The Northern California rockers recently returned from five performances at U.S. military bases in North Korea, a trip frontman Jacoby Shaddix, in a recent MTV News interview, said was a way for the band to show appreciation for U.S. troops.

"I've got a beef with the administration, not our soldiers," he said "Those people over there are just doing their job. They joined the Army because it's a way to get a college education.

"My father is a Vietnam vet, and when a lot of those soldiers came home, people were calling them baby killers and I saw how that affected my father. He was over there fighting a war he didn't believe in, but he came home and people shunned him and we just can't treat people like that. I've got friends in the military, and do I have something against them? Not at all."