Buckcherry

American hard rock band Buckcherry, whose name is a nod to rock'n'roll pioneer Chuck Berry, was born in 1995 in Anaheim, California, when singer Josh Todd and guitarist Keith Nelson, linked by a shared passion for AC/DC, recruited bassist Jonathan Brightman and drummer Devon Glenn. An untitled debut album (ranked #74 in the U.S.) was released in 1999, after the band signed to Dreamworks Records. Several tracks attract attention, including "Lit Up" (#87 in the UK) and "For the Movies" (#25 in Billboard's Alternative Airplay category). Time Bomb (No. 64) was released in 2001, but the band broke up in 2002. Three years later, Josh Todd and Keith Nelson initiated a fresh start under the same name. From then on, one album followed another: 15 in 2005 (No. 39), Black Butterfly, which gave the band its highest ranking in the US charts in 2008 (No. 8), All Night Long in 2010 (No. 10), Confessions in 2013 (No. 20), Rock'n'Roll in 2015 (No. 93), before Nelson's departure, and Warpaint in 2019 (No. 55), with new guitarist Kevin Roentgen. In 2021, the band, then made up of Josh Todd, Stevie D. and Billy Rowe (guitars), Kelly LeMieux (bass) and Francis Ruiz (drums), teamed up with producer Marty Frederiksen for their ninth opus Hellbound, followed by Vol. 10 in 2023 and Roar Like Thunder in 2025.