Nickelback “took their time” with their new album Everything Under the Sun, relishing the chance not to be so “urgent” with the release.
Mike Kroeger, bassist and founding member of the band, opened up on the Loudwire Nights podcast about the highly-anticipated record, which is due to drop on October 30.
He said: “The genesis of this thing was to kind of relax and take our time getting to it and getting it done. We didn’t do anything in a particular hurry. We just didn’t feel as urgent about getting it done as maybe we have in the past.
“It’s been a cycle, really tight for us. We make a record, go on the road, immediately as soon as we get off the road, get in the studio.
“This time was a little bit different and more of a relaxed pace. Just trying to do the best work we can and not so concerned with hitting timelines.”
Mike added that the group wanted to “leave some space” before dropping Everything Under the Sun, after seeing how their fans reacted to a break from them during the Covid-19 pandemic.
He continued: “You could say we took an extra year between albums. We just kind of wanted to leave some space. We found that we had a pretty good result of that during COVID, we went away for a little while and our people reacted really well to a little bit of a reduced diet of us.”
The first single off the new album is Rattle the Cage – a tune that’s been around for a while but has been given a new lease of life thanks to guitarist John 5’s collaboration.
Mike said: “We kind of wanted to push the limits and see what we can get and John 5 is a good example of reaching out and just saying, ‘Hey, we like what you do a lot and we have a lot of mutual friends.’
“He agreed to do it and it was just a tremendous experience to be able to have him on one of our tracks and also to see him cook was pretty cool.”