{"id":22418,"date":"2023-06-17T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=22418"},"modified":"2023-06-14T22:07:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T22:07:09","slug":"buckcherry-vol-10-earache-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rpmonline.co.uk\/?p=22418","title":{"rendered":"Buckcherry \u2013 \u2018Vol. 10\u2019 (Earache Records)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What in the name of Joey DeMaio\u2019s bonk eye has been going on in UK this past couple of weeks whilst I\u2019ve been off giving my xenomorph cranium some much needed sunshine?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I arrive back over the weekend to find the country baking in Caribbean style temperatures, Man City winners of the treble, the Tory party (once again) openly imploding and Buckcherry in the Top 20 official UK album chart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wow!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thankfully (for me) the latter wasn\u2019t that much of a surprise as having the band\u2019s tenth studio record pretty much on constant loop during my sabbatical I\u2019d have been disappointed if it hadn\u2019t been an instant success with the fans, as (for yours truly) \u2018Vol.10\u2019 really is the sound of Buckcherry at the top of their game once again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Okay, I\u2019m a bit of an old school Buckcherry fanboy, loving both their \u2018Self-titled\u2019 debut from 1999 and (still my favourite album by them) 2001\u2019s \u2018Time Bomb\u2019, and as such have travelled far and wide to see the band live, but I must admit that ever since the \u2018Rock N Roll\u2019 album kind of \u201cappeared\u201d in my CD collection back in 2015, I haven\u2019t really been that enthused by what the band have come up with.  Until now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think it\u2019s safe to say that when Jetboy\/American Heartbreak guitarist Billy Rowe joined the Buckcherry ranks frontman Josh Todd was looking to restore the song writing balance in favour of the liquor and poker bar band tunes that they had always excelled in writing, and 2021\u2019s \u2018Hellbound\u2019 (the band\u2019s first record for Earache Records in Europe) was a major step back in the right direction for the band following the decent if rather disappointing \u2018Warpaint\u2019 album, a record you must remember that had been preceded by Todd and guitarist Stevie D venturing off into the world of rock\/rap crossover via their Spraygun War project.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSo, what\u2019s so great about \u2018Vol. 10\u2019? I hear you cry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, this eleven tracker picks up pretty much where \u2018Hellbound\u2019 left off, with Marti Frederiksen reuniting with the band as producer, and the band line up of Todd, D, Rowe along with drummer Francis Ruiz and bassist Kelly LeMieux all seemingly gelling well together for their second album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Frederiksen at the helm the Aerosmith influence is never going to be too far away and here it\u2019s evident from the get-go via opener \u2018This And That\u2019, a track that swaggers along with all the sartorial elegance of the late 80s version of the Toxic Twins. This is BIG, balls-out, rock music baby!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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