At the turn of the millennium, a betting man wouldn’t have touched Buckcherry. The Californians had enjoyed gold sales with 1999’s self-titled debut album, home to crossover hit Lit Up. But 2001 follow-up Time Bomb was a relative stiff, and the following year’s hiatus suggested a band realising the zeitgeist was against them.
“That period was when what I call ‘nerd-rock’ – y’know, the shoegazer dudes with the Buddy Holly glasses – and fuckin’ rap-rock was going on,” recalls frontman Josh Todd. “We didn’t fit into any of that.”
