BUCKCHERRY's sixth studio album,
"Confessions", will be the California band's first domestic release with new label
Century Media Records. The CD is due in early 2013 on
Century Media in the United States and via
Eleven Seven Music in other parts of the world, with new tracks to be unveiled in the coming weeks.
"The time has come to finally announce the release of our sixth LP,
'Confessions'," says
BUCKCHERRY frontman
Josh Todd. "This is our coolest album yet and I think a lot of people will relate. If you love
BUCKCHERRY, you are going to get a chance to be part of a great story. Join the revolution and let's rock!"
"This is, by far, our most ambitious record," says guitarist
Keith Nelson, who co-founded
BUCKCHERRY with
Todd
in 1995 after the duo met in a Los Angeles tattoo shop. "We are very
proud of the work we've done and we are looking forward to presenting it
to our fans."
"Confessions" is an album based on the seven deadly sins, and is part of a larger vision that includes a film written by
Josh Todd, who based the album's lyrics on his childhood and transformation into adulthood.
Asked about the reports that
"Confessions" is a "concept" album,
Nelson told
PopCultureMadness.com,
"Basically, it kind of started off as a concept record and then evolved
away from that, so I wouldn't really call it a concept record right
now. But it definitely has a theme to the record. And the record, it
evolved into
Josh writing a screenplay, basically, loosely based
on some events of his life. So the story of the record goes with the
film and the film goes with the record and they really work together. It
tells a story."
He added, "The whole idea was to, basically,
make the record stand alone on its own and the film stand alone on its
own, but they could both come together and work really well together.
And same thing with the songs — there isn't anything on the record that
is so weird that you wouldn't understand it unless you saw the movie. So
the record really needs to stand on its own, like every other record
we've made."
Todd told an Oklahoma radio station about the
"Confessions" screenplay, "It's based around the seven sins and true events that happened in my life as well, when I was younger."
Todd,
however, shot down the idea of playing the lead role in the film,
although he did say that the band will appear somewhere in it.
He added, "I think (the film is) gonna be a real treat for people who love this band and people who are just discovering
BUCKCHERRY for the first time."
As for
"Confessions",
Todd
said that the new disc is "definitely a heavier, musically, record than
we've ever had, and more melodic. It's pretty intense, but everybody's
gonna love it. It's quintessential
BUCKCHERRY at the end of the day."
