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Nickelback
Canada's Nickelback started life as a cover band in Hanna, 215 kilometers northeast of Calgary. Eventually, they tired of playing other people's songs and singer/guitarist Chad Kroeger put together a bunch of original songs, borrowed 4,000 bucks off his stepfather, and went to big city Vancouver to record them in a friend's studio. Based on the results, Kroeger's guitarist brother, Mike, and pal bassist Ryan Vikedal all relocated to Vancouver in 1996; that same year, they recorded and released the EP Hesher and full-length Curb independently and embarked on a series of cross-country tours. The group's singer had spent two years selling advertising for a soccer magazine and now applied some of the skills he had learned to his band. He asked his friends to fax and phone radio stations to request their first single until it was played often enough for Nickelback to pick up fans on their own.
Nickelback is a rock and roll band founded in western Canada in 1995. The name derived from the nickel in change one of the band members frequently had to give customers back in his job at a Starbucks coffee shop.
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Artist Biography - Nickelback
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 In late 1998, the band decided their managers were unable to bring them to the next level and started managing themselves. Mike Kroeger handled all the distribution, brother Chad handled all the radio tracking, and Ryan Vikedal handled all the bookings. The group had also invested $30,000 into a new album. The State was released independently in January 2000 during a slow rock period when Canadian content requirements were increased and local rock radio began desperately seeking out homegrown product. What they found was Nickelback's single "Leader of Men." Nickelback toured ceaselessly for The State and 200 shows later, the band had gone from virtual unknowns to playing in front of over a million people alongside the likes of Creed, 3 Doors Down, Fuel, and more. The band's post-grunge commercial appeal wasn't lost on the record industry and The State was snapped up by Roadrunner/Island, Def Jam in the U.S., and EMI in Canada. It eventually sold an impressive 500,000 copies.
If anyone thought mainstream rock went out of style, apparently they failed to hear Nickelback, the Canadian quartet that took the world by storm in 2002 with the omnipresent anthem, "How You Remind Me."
Although it may have seemed that Nickelback was an overnight success, nothing could be further from the truth. The band, fronted by singer/guitarist Chad Kroeger and his bass-playing brother, Mike, started in the mid-'90s as a cover band in the small town of Hanna, Alberta. By 1996, the band relocated to Vancouver and Kroeger had begun writing his own songs. Once in the big city, the band—which also includes drummer Ryan Vikedal and guitarist Ryan Peake—hit the recording studio with a vengeance. In that year alone Nickelback churned out the Hesher EP and its debut long-player, Curb.
The core of the band hails from Hanna, Alberta. They are now based in Vancouver, British Columbia. Critics have often pointed out that "How You Remind Me", a Nickelback song that received extensive airplay in 2001, and "Someday", a popular song in 2003, are almost perfectly identical except for lyrical content.
Line-up
Chad Kroeger - Lead Vocals and Electric Guitars
Ryan Peake - Electric Guitars and Vocals
Mike Kroeger - Electric Bass
Ryan Vikedal - Drums
Discography
Hesher (EP) (1996)
Curb (1996), re-released (2002)
The State (2000)
Silver Side Up (2001)
The Long Road (2003)
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For more information , enjoy the official homepage of Nickelback
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