Nickelback is a band founded in 1995 in the Canadian city of Hannah. Acts in the alternative rock genre. Distinctive features are its high-quality musical sound, an unusual timbre of the voice of the vocalist Chad Krueger and semantic loads of lyrics. Therefore, Nickelback more than deservedly received the title of the best rock band of the first decade of the XXI century according to Billboard statistics.
Idea of creation
Rock band Nickelback was the fruit of the joint efforts of two brothers - Chad and Mike Kruger. Initially, the idea to create a musical group came from Chad, and later he offered his brother a creative project. Young people invited their cousin Brandon Krueger to the group for the role of drummer and guitarist Ryan Peak.
The quartet did not immediately have an unusual name. Initially, they wanted to be called POINT OF VIEW, then Village Idiot, and the latest name sounded like BRICK.
With the real name of the Canadian group Nickelback, Mike Krueger worked in a cafe where a cup of coffee cost 45 cents. Coffee was ordered often, and after calculating the customer, Mike always repeated the same phrase: Here's your nickel back, which meant: "Here are your five cents of change." The guys listened to the usual melodic sound of the phrase and decided to use it as a name.
Beginning of the creative path
For quite some time Nickelback could not find their own style. At the beginning of their career, the guys performed covers of well-known musical material, but this did not bring success. Young people wanted to find their listeners and gain fame as an individual group. The idea of recording their own songs came to Chad, but the parents of two musicians had to sponsor it. The family paid for recording services in Vancouver.
Also, in 1996, the stepfather of the brothers gave the young musicians a small amount of money to record the Hesher trial album. Thanks to group friends and pre-planned polls on radio stations, Nickelback began to appear frequently on local radio waves. The musicians themselves went to the radio for a long time and asked that their songs be broadcast.
After the final move to Vancouver and recording another album called Curb, the musicians gained fame. Their first tour of Canada was a success.
Years of popularity
The famous heavy rock label Roadrunner Records has signed a contract with young musicians for the next album, Silver Side Up, which has become the most popular since the band began. The song How You Remind Me won the audience and took the first place in the Billboard Hot 100 rating. This song is about emotional experiences associated with unrequited love. Many people liked the music of Nickelback because of the sincere individuality of each song. The album also included a song in which the father of two musicians, who left his family, was negatively described.
Nickelback recorded Hero for Spider-Man. Later, a clip was shot on her, enthusiastically accepted by the public.
Nickelback's next album, titled All The Right Reasons, was created with the participation of a new drummer, former member of 3 Doors Down Daniel Adair. Later 5 singles and video clips were recorded.
In November 2008, the group released another album - Dark Horse, from which 6 singles and videos were released.
Nickelback's songs have long occupied the pinnacle of popularity in their genre. The musicians released a series of very successful and sold albums.
In 2011, the album Here & Now was recorded, the singles of which became the leaders of orders at radio stations. After granting access to the album for free listening and the release of the video for the song When We Stand Together, this disc entered the top of "The Most Successful Albums of the Year". Over the first week of the album's release, more than a million copies were sold.
The band released several singles and a studio album, No Fixed Address, in 2013. And just recently, in 2017, it introduced the 9th record, called Feed the Machine.
Style
Nickelback performs various genres of rock music. Initially, she referred to the alternative rock genre, but in subsequent albums you can see the manifestation of post-grunge, pop-rock, alternative metal and even hard rock. Also in some albums elements of electronic music are traced.
Some fans claimed that Nickelback performed in the nu-metal genre, but the musicians did not have singles written in this style.
Concerts
Throughout their creative activities, the group gave many concerts.
In 1996, they, then still little-known, traveled to Canada with a new album. The tour went very well.
In honor of the release of the Silver Side Up album, the group gave many concerts around the world, which brought her great success.
February 28, 2010 the rock band was invited to speak at the closing of the Olympics in Vancouver.
In 2018, Nickelback launched a big world tour, performing, including in Russia.
Structure
Chad Krueger is the leader, founder of the group and its main vocalist. Besides the fact that he performs solo parts, he also masterly plays the guitar. In addition to performances with Nickelback, performs songs for films, writes compositions by other artists. He is a musician Nickelback from 1995 to the present.
Mike Krueger - bass player, backing vocalist of the group. He is the elder brother of the leader Nickelback and one of the founders of the rock band. It was he who invented the unusual name - Nickelback. In his work uses such electric guitars as Spector, Lakland. Nickelback musician from 1995 to the present.
Ryan Peak is one of the creators of the group. Plays it on a solo guitar, keyboards. Performs vocal and backing parts. He wrote several famous compositions. During the creation of Nickelback and the heyday of popularity, he acted as an active distributor of collective creativity. He is a member of the group from the moment of its foundation to the present.
Brandon Kruger is a cousin of Mike and Chad Kruger, one of the founders of Nickelback. He played the role of a drummer, but after creating the band left in 1997.
After Brandon left, the drummers were replaced in the band with a period of several years. Since 1997, Mitch Gindon has been on drums, since 1998 - Ryan Wickdale. From 2005 to the present, Daniel Adair plays the role of drummer and backing vocalist.
Daniel Adair is a former member of the American band 3 Doors Down. In addition to his main and permanent work with Nickelback, he actively collaborates with such teams as Suspect and Martone.
Awards
Nickelback has received a large number of musical regalia since its inception. One of her main achievements is winning the first line in the charts of Hot Modern Rock Track, Billboard Hot 100 and Canadian Hot 100 with the song Silver Side Up.
It also sold 11 million copies of its fifth album, titled All the Right Reasons. Since 2007, the band has been on Canada's Walk of Fame.
A total of 32 Nickelback awards and 71 nominations.
Sometimes Nickelback received negative rewards. For example, the title "worst group in the world" was awarded by a vote of 20% of readers of a fairly well-known English magazine Word Magazine.
Discography
The discography of Nickelback is quite extensive. Over the years of their work, the rock band managed to release 8 studio albums and two compilation albums. In addition, the musicians have on their track record one mini-album.
In total, the group has 32 songs and 25 video clips on them. If you count the sold Nickelback albums only in America, then their number exceeds 26 million copies.
Alternative
Many fans, not saturated with the work of their favorite group, begin to look for bands that resemble them in style of performance.
There are several Nickelback-like bands and they all play alternative rock. These include groups such as:
- Theory of a Deadman is a rock band performing songs mainly in grunge style and alternative rock. Also, like Nickelback, it gained popularity in Vancouver and collaborated with Roadrunner Records. It has a platinum status.
- 3 Doors Down is an American alternative rock band. Since 2002, its member was Nickelback's current drummer and backing vocalist, Daniel Adair.
- Hinder is a band from America whose music, according to critics, revives the old concept of classical rock. It was formed relatively recently - in 2011, and performs in the genre of alternative rock and heavy metal. He is a member of the Oklahoma Music Museum of Glory.
Many fans of rock music find a certain similarity in the work of Nickelback and the famous American band Skillet.
Skillet is a music band from America specializing in Christian rock. In addition to this style performs alternative rock, nu metal and symphonic metal. He has many awards received during his musical career.