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Buckcherry is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of New Medicine, Throw the Fight, The Quireboys, The Jins and Vamps. Those roots explain a lot about how Buckcherry arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Saving Abel, Black Stone Cherry, Theory of a Deadman, Hinder and Pop Evil, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Sixx:A.M., Lenny Kravitz, AC/DC, Slash and Scott Weiland, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 49 connections around Buckcherry, reaching back through New Medicine and forward to Sixx:A.M.. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
Buckcherry is an American hard rock band from Anaheim, California, formed in 1995. The band released two albums, Buckcherry (1999) and Time Bomb (2001), before dissolving in 2002. Buckcherry's first album Buckcherry was DreamWorks' first album to go gold. In 2005, lead vocalist Josh Todd and lead guitarist Keith Nelson reformed Buckcherry with a new lineup and released a new album in 2006, 15. It contained Buckcherry's biggest crossover hit to date, "Crazy Bitch", and their first Billboard Hot 100 top ten hit, "Sorry". The band continued to record albums, releasing seven between 2008 and 2023: Black Butterfly in 2008, All Night Long in 2010, Confessions in 2013, Rock 'n' Roll in 2015, Warpaint in 2019, Hellbound in 2021 and Vol. 10 in 2023. Their eleventh album, Roar Like Thunder was released in June 2025.
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Buckcherry connections
Buckcherry grew out of New Medicine, Throw the Fight, The Quireboys and The Jins, shares an orbit with Saving Abel, Black Stone Cherry, Theory of a Deadman and Hinder, went on to shape Sixx:A.M., Lenny Kravitz, AC/DC and Slash. 49 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
Who influenced Buckcherry
Sounds and acts that shaped Buckcherry.
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