ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons and Pantera's Dimebag Darrell (who unfortunately died before the album's release) were guests on the chart-topping All the Right Reasons, which arrived in October 2005. He was soon replaced by 3 Doors Down's former drummer Daniel Adair, and Nickelback returned to Kroeger's studio in Vancouver to begin work on another album. In February 2005, Nickelback announced the departure of Vikedal. The Long Road then arrived in 2003, featuring an increasingly polished sound and another high-charting single, "Someday." While some listeners criticized the apparent similarities between "Someday" and "How You Remind Me," The Long Road had little trouble maintaining Nickelback's wide audience, eventually selling over five million copies worldwide.
The combination of Nickelback's growing popularity and Kroeger's focused songwriting propelled Silver Side Up onto album charts across the world, spearheaded by the hit single "How You Remind Me." Kroeger capitalized on that exposure by producing another Vancouver-based band, Default, and collaborating with Saliva's Josey Scott for the Spider-Man soundtrack. Much of that material found its way onto Silver Side Up, which was produced by Rick Parashar (who came to prominence in the early '90s by helming Pearl Jam's Ten, Alice in Chains' Sap, and Blind Melon's self-titled debut) and recorded at Green House, the same Vancouver studio used during The State's creation. As the band continued to tour, Kroeger kept writing new songs, many of which were polished in front of live audiences. Nickelback's commercial appeal wasn't lost on the record industry, either, and The State's distribution rights were quickly snapped up by Roadrunner Records in the U.S.
Nickelback toured ceaselessly in support of The State, logging approximately 200 shows while playing alongside other groups of the burgeoning post-grunge genre. Issued at a time in which Canadian content requirements were increased (and, accordingly, local radio stations had begun to desperately seek out homegrown product), the album fared very well on indie charts. January 2000 saw the arrival of The State, Nickelback's second independent release. By 1998, the bandmates were managing themselves Chad courted radio stations, brother Mike handled distribution, Vikedal booked shows, and Peake maintained the band's website. Nickelback officially took shape in 1996 and quickly set to work, releasing two albums - the Hesher EP and full-length album Curb - before the year was up. Mike Kroeger, Chad's bass-playing sibling, decided to join his brother's band, as did fellow Vancouver transplants Ryan Peake (a guitarist who had befriended the Kroegers in middle school) and Ryan Vikedal (a drummer from Peake's hometown of Brooks, Alberta). After growing tired of playing other people's songs, he borrowed money from his stepfather and relocated to Vancouver, where he recorded his first batch of original material. By the time the band released their ninth long-player, 2017's Feed the Machine, they had sold over 50 million albums worldwide.Ĭhad Kroeger honed his frontman skills by performing with cover bands in Hanna, a small Canadian town 215 kilometers northeast of Calgary. Nickelback's popularity only grew as the decades progressed, with chart-topping albums like The Long Road and All the Right Reasons effectively eclipsing those acts that had once informed their sound. After a handful of singles failed to gain much traction in Canada, "How You Remind Me" caught hold in 2001, eventually topping the charts in several countries while gathering four Grammy nominations and four Juno Awards. Led by vocalist Chad Kroeger, the band initially emerged in the late '90s as Canada's answer to Creed, prizing a blend of gruff vocals and distorted (yet radio-friendly) guitars. Canadian rockers who fit pop sensibilities into their sonic onslaught, ensuring plenty of airplay and a rabid fan base, few bands did more than Nickelback to establish the force of slick, commercially minded post-grunge in the 2000s.
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