Nickelback tour
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Nickelback
Canadian rock band
This article is about the Canadian rock band. For the gridiron football position, see Nickelback (American football).
Nickelback is a Canadian rock band formed in 1995 in Hanna, Alberta. Throughout its history, it has consisted of lead guitarist and lead vocalist Chad Kroeger, rhythm guitarist, keyboardist and backing vocalist Ryan Peake, and bassist Mike Kroeger. It went through several drummer changes between 1995 and 2005 before Daniel Adair joined.
The band signed with Roadrunner Records in 1999 and reached a mainstream breakthrough in 2002 with the single "How You Remind Me", which reached number one in the United States and Canada. Its parent album, Silver Side Up, would go on to be certified 8× Platinum in Canada.[1] Nickelback's fourth album, The Long Road, was released in 2003 and spawned five singles, including Canadian number one "Someday", which also reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.[2]
In 2005, the band's best-selling album to date, All the Right Reasons, produced three top-10 and five top-20 si
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Nickelback bassist Mike Kroeger and drummer Ryan Vikedal establish a full-throttle momentum in the first moments of "Never Again," the song's intensity levels increasing further with Ryan Peake’s slashing riff and Chad Kroeger’s ferocious vocal performance. Besides being a compelling opening salvo for Nickelback’s third album, the song is an unequivocal statement of purpose, one that demonstrates just how far the band had come since its founding in 1995. Like "How You Remind Me" and "Too Bad"—the two songs that helped turn Silver Side Up into the band's commercial breakthrough—"Never Again" rewards Chad Kroeger for his diligence through the Alberta rockers’ early years; the young songwriter learned his craft by reverse-engineering hits by the era’s biggest acts to figure out how he could most effectively construct his own songs, then road-testing the results over the course of hundreds of live shows. This can be considered the section of the post-grunge Venn diagram where Nickelback’s ambition overlaps with the wider rock audience’s hunger for sounds that moved past the tropes of
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