Buckcherry, “Vol. 10.”

Almost three decades and 10 albums later, SoCal rockers Buckcherry have a pretty good sense of what works for them. Their latest from Josh Todd and co., fittingly titled Vol. 10, is a collection of 11 tracks that takes an “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mentality.

Buckcherry is synonymous with riff-heavy hard rock built on Southern-rock-influenced sounds and big, fist-pumping anthems. Vol. 10 won’t surprise fans, but it’s still highly effective.

The band played some 230 shows in support of its previous album, Hellhound, and that energy rubs off in the songwriting and production this time around. The sound is straightforward rock and roll, and that’s exactly where the band succeeds. With Marti Fredericksen at the helm, Buckcherry taps into on-stage energy to create an album that’s energetic and, most importantly for this band, fun.

The stomps and claps of opener “This and That” bring an immediate personality with a Southern rock heaviness. The band ramps up further on “Good Times.”

“Anything can happen/ Strap in for action/ People singing people dancing/ So shut up and hit the floor,” Todd declares.

The trifecta of heaviness continues on “Keep On Fighting,” which hoists more of a shouted cadence by Todd. Guitarist Stevie D offers up a blistering solo while drummer Francis Ruiz keeps things moving with an urgent beat.

The band doubles down on the down-home bluesy rock fused with a stadium-sized singalong on “Turn It On,” before turning the mirror inward on “Feels Like Love,” an introspective track that explodes into power ballad territory. Lyrically, the song even verges toward the positive side. The detour is short-lived, however, as “One and Only” brings back the unrelenting energy. It builds from a percussive rhythmic pattern to an all-out attack in the chorus.

“Don’t like what I’m seeing/ What should I believe in?/ Someone should have told me/ This life is our one and only,” Todd sings.

The classic-rock-sounding “Shine Your Light” keeps things simple. It’s all about big infectious melodies and hard-charging riffage. “Let’s Get Wild,” has a party vibe but otherwise sounds similar, with its own shredding guitar solo. On and on, Buckcherry doesn’t let the momentum falter one bit. “With You” opens with an attack that would make Guns N’ Roses proud before morphing into a bluesy hard rock shuffle.

“Pain,” is quite the departure from the rest of the album, trading in guitar riffs for a piano-laden power ballad with a heavy dose of orchestral strings. Of course, the band joins the party midway through. Todd shows a different side of his voice here, offering a melodic power that strikes a different tone. The song is technically not the closer, though.

Spoiler alert: The band concludes the album with a bonus cover of Bryan Adams’ “Summer of ’69.” It remains faithful to the arrangement of the original while adding extra heaviness and the Buckcherry personality.

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