The title-track to Buckcherry’s ninth studio album not only boasts an AC/DC-sized stomper of a riff, it is essentially the California band’s own version of Highway To Hell. Inspired by the time a 15-year-old Josh Todd played his first show at an Orange County house party and knew that rock‘n’ oll had its claws in him, Hellbound recalls the start of a journey that’s still going strong today. Buckcherry have at times suffered by comparison to the classic rock bands that came before them, but those Guns N’ Roses, AC/DC and Aerosmith similarities still stand. It should be remembered, though, that the frontman is a lifer and that Buckcherry have done more than most to keep this music alive through often lean times. And, more than two decades after the release of their ...
