Highlights on All The Right Reasons include Rockstar and the ferocious Side Of A Bullet, the latter of which features a sampled guitar solo from Pantera’s Dimebag Darrell. Indeed, the group left plenty of space for the signature classic-rock sound they had built their career on. Not that Nickelback were wholly re-inventing themselves. If you take some time to cycle through their albums there are plenty of great songs within them, just coupled with the obvious radio rock songs that seem to be the cause of peoples hatred towards the band. Adding piano and strings to their sound for the first time, the songs on All The Right Reasons benefited from having much fuller arrangements that found the group expanding upon their rock-solid songwriting foundations. Nickelback is a band that most people love to hate, but secretly like at least some of their songs. “We just didn’t think it was very rock’n’roll.” After realising they could branch out and still make it work, however, the group decided not to be “so narrow-minded about any instrument, no matter what it is or what sort of stigma might be attached to it”. “We were a little scared of using piano,” the singer said. Speaking around the time of the album’s release, in late 2005, Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger revealed that the group had previously been afraid of using any instruments that didn’t fit their concept of rock music.
The result turned out to be their biggest release to date. However, going into the recording of their fifth record, All The Right Reasons, the group felt the need to shake things up a bit. Four albums in – including their breakthrough, Silver Side Up, which featured the juggernaut single How You Remind Me– the band’s radio-ready post-grunge sound had brought them huge commercial success. Joseph’s Health Amphitheater at Lakeview *Ġ7/31 – Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center *Ġ8/01 – Wantagh, NY Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater *Ġ8/04 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center *Ġ8/06 – St.By the mid-2000s, Nickelback were a well-oiled machine. Genres: Post-Grunge, Hard Rock, Pop Rock.
See the full list of dates below.Ġ6/19 – Raleigh, NC Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek *Ġ6/20 – Virginia Beach, VA Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater *Ġ6/23 – Charlotte, NC PNC Music Pavilion *Ġ6/26 – Noblesville, IN Ruoff Music Center *Ġ6/27 – Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center *Ġ6/30 – Burgettstown, PA S&T Bank Music Park *Ġ7/02 – Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre *Ġ7/03 – Darien Center, NY Darien Lake Amphitheater *Ġ7/05 – Bethel, NY Bethel Woods Center for the Arts *Ġ7/11 – Hershey, PA Hersheypark Stadium *Ġ7/22 – Saratoga Springs, NY Saratoga Performing Arts Center *Ġ7/25 – Bangor, ME Darling’s Waterfront Pavilion *Ġ7/29 – Syracuse, NY St. Nickelback discography and songs: Music profile for Nickelback, formed 1995. Tickets are now on sale and available here. The band is currently fronted by vocalist Jeff Gutt, following the deaths of singers Scott Weiland and Chester Bennington. Stone Temple Pilots will be out in support of their new acoustic album, Perdida, which arrives on February 7th. We entered the studio this year with a vision, and it all came together. Kroeger said 'We’re four people who love making music, the way we like to make it. (Read: Krist Novoselic Defends Nickelback Against Fox News) Nickelback announced their new album, Here and Now, on September 8, 2011, along with its two lead singles, 'Bottoms Up' and 'When We Stand Together'. Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown will open from the kickoff date through an August 9th show in Omaha, Nebraska, while Switchfoot will take over on August 15th in West Palm Beach, Florida, and stay on until the final gig. Stone Temple Pilots will be on board for the entire run.
The extensive tour kicks off June 19th in Raleigh, North Carolina, and continues all the way through an October 3rd show in Mountain View, California.
The band will play All the Right Reasons in its entirety at each stop, along with hits from other albums. The LP yielded hits such as “Photograph”, “Rockstar”, “Far Away”, and “Savin’ Me”, among others. All the Right Reasons has been certified diamond by the RIAA for 10 million units moved in the United States alone. While Nickelback haven’t been critical darlings throughout their career, the Canadian rockers have sold a ton of albums over the years. The outing will feature direct support from Stone Temple Pilots, as well as Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown and Switchfoot splitting opening duties. Nickelback will celebrate the 15th anniversary of their massive-selling 2005 album All the Right Reasons with a 2020 North American tour.