The debut The State has been in this country published only last year where it was available since 1999 in the States. Thus, Silver Side Up is anything but a fast cobbled together album except band Nickelback. Quite the contrary - it shows the band in fine form and leaves the remaining competitors in the alternative rock area look rather old. Who would like to have a harder song with bands like Bush, 3 Doors Down or Lifehouse, Nickelback is the right place! The four boys let it rip in places duly and drift mostly actually in really classic hard rock from without being kitsch or unprofessional. Wonderfully thunderous riffs in interplay with turn grandiose sense of strong melodies make songs like the superb opener Never Again, the two Kracher Woke Up This Morning and Money Bought or uptempo catchy Too Bad to true genre classics. No spark worse the beautiful doomy inspired Hollywood or the showpieces Just For, Hangnail and Where Do I hide come along. All Songs demonstrates the outstanding vocal performance by Chad Kroeger, which depends also legends like Kurt Cobain's favorite. His guitar work in a congenial combination with rhythm guitarist Ryan Peake is top notch and harbors at no time the entire album weaknesses. Unlike some colleagues Genre blaring at Nickelback also the bass of Chad's brother Mike Kroeger fat out of the boxes and contributes to the pleasant hardness at very positive. The driving drumming of Ryan Vikedal blends harmoniously into the overall sound, and comes through crystal clear, powerful production to full advantage. The first single How You Remind Me is sort of super melodic and is likely to seize up quite nicely in some CD players. In addition, the band with the final slide guitar ballad Good Times Gone conjured a wash real showpiece out of his sleeve. Rarely a song is entitled "catchy" so clearly deserved in this case. Conclusion: The current alternative rock boom has so far produced only a few really good bands. Nickelback but here is the direct exception and can look forward to a great future. Because with Silverside up they succeed masterfully balancing act between traditional post-grunge and really fat Hard 'n Heavy sound. Thickness 5 stars for one of rock highlights of 2001!
