Nickelback are in the thick of a U.S. tour with Buckcherry and 3 Days Grace, but when it concludes at the end of October the Canadian quartet may go their aid to running on the follow-up to 2008's Dark Horse. In an audience with Billboard, Nickelback leader Chad Kroeger said that he's planning on getting down to writing the following book in February, although he already has "about four tunes" for the project.
"The rockers tend to follow while we're in the studio," Kroeger said, discussing the band's writing process. "Just noodling around, you wrap up with rock riffs. It's the early ones that are harder to craft, the ones you kind of pine over a small bit more.We've got so many of the 'How You Remind Mes,' the 'Somedays,' the 'Far Aways.' We've got a pair of the 'Photograph'-type things and a few of the 'Rockstar' and 'This Afternoons.' The disc company always wants to promote the more accessible material, but it's invariably a business [whether] we get enough rockers in the set when we play live. You've got to save room for the 'Fire It to the Evidence' and that sort of stuff."
You may recall that two days ago Nickelback signed a lucrative deal (rumored to be about $70 million) with Live Nation for three future albums and three concert tours. The head at the time was whether the post-grunge titans could keep their commercial success when Dark Horse (which was released through their longtime label, Roadrunner) came out, and the answer has turned out to be a definite "yes": The album, according to Nielsen SoundScan, has touched about 3 million copies, an astonishing feat in an era of terribly sluggish record sales. In addition, the Billboard article mentions that the group have sold two million concert tickets from tours connected to the album. A lot of critics, myself included, aren't terribly impressed with this band's artistry, but there's no question Nickelback have a solid and fiercely loyal fan base.
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