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Nickelback Confirm 2010 Dark Horse Tour Dates

Grammy-nominated, mega-platinum rock powerhouse Nickelback, has announced the 2010 North American leg of their Dark Horse World Tour, a Live Nation produced event. The tour will feature special guests Breaking Benjamin and Shinedown with the opening act and additional dates to be announced. The newly confirmed dates are hot off the heels of their summer and fall dates where the band played to sold out crowds around the world. Tickets go on sale beginning December 4th in select markets at LiveNation.com.

Nickelback fan club members will have access to presale tickets beginning November 27th in select markets. Citi® cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning November 30th at 10am local time through Citi's Private Pass® Program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com. Additional information on the tour, ticket on sales, fan club membership and VIP packages is available at Nickelback.com and LiveNation.com.

NICKELBACK DARK HORSE 2010 TOUR:

April 6 London, ON John Labatt Centre

April 8 Toronto, ON Air Canada Centre

April 9 Montreal, QC Bell Centre

April 11 Ottawa, ON Scotiabank Place

April13 Washington, DC Verizon Center

April 14 Hampton VA Hampton Coliseum*

April16 Greenville, SC BI-LO Center*

April 17 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum Complex*

April19 Orlando, FL Amway Arena*

April 21 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena

April 24 Tulsa, OK BOK Center

* Shinedown not included.

The latest single from Dark Horse, “Never Gonna Be Alone,” is already top 15 at Hot AC and heating up quickly at Top 40. Last week also saw the premiere of the video for “Never Gonna Be Alone.” Added out of the box at Vh1 and Fuse, both channels will start airing it on November 23rd. The video can currently be seen via Nickelback.com, RoadrunnerRecords.com and YouTube. Look for the broadcast premiere November 23^rd. The video was shot by veteran director and longtime Nickelback friend Nigel Dick.

Nickelback is one of the biggest rock bands in the world, with over 35 million albums sold. The band’s latest album, Dark Horse, produced by the legendary Mutt Lange, debuted at number two on the Billboard Top 200 Chart and has remained on the Top 200 for 50 weeks selling over 2.4 million albums in the US alone. Nickelback is currently nominated for a 2009 American Music Award in the Pop/Rock category for Favorite Band, Duo or Group.

Nickelback has enjoyed unprecedented success with their last album, All The Right Reasons, which has been RIAA certified 8X platinum. The six singles from the album totaled 12 million downloads and 6 million ringtones. All proceeds of digital single and video sales for “If Everyone Cared” between February 1 and July 31, 2007 were donated to charity, equally distributed between Amnesty International and International Childrens’ Awareness Canada. Each of the five videos from All The Right Reasons has reached #1 on VH1’s playlist: “Photograph,” “Savin’ Me,” “Far Away,” “If Everyone Cared” and “Rockstar.” In 2006 Nickelback was awarded a World Music Award for “World’s Best Rock Group,” a Billboard Touring Award for “Breakthrough Artist,” an American Music Award for “Favorite Pop/Rock Album” and a People’s Choice Award for “Best Rock Group.”

Nickelback's Newest Is Video of the Day on FUSE..

Nickelback's newest video masterpiece "Never Gonna Be Alone" is the Video of the Day on FUSE today.

GO HERE to watch now!

Nickelback "Never Gonna Be Alone" World Premeire

Multi-platinum rock powerhouse, Nickelback, launches their latest music video “Never Gonna Be Alone,” directed by long time Nickelback video master, Nigel Dick. GO HERE to watch the world premiere now.

Recently nominated for an American Music Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Band of 2009, Nickelback continues to dominate the charts with their unique brand of melodic rock and fist-pumping anthems. Their latest album, Dark Horse, is 3x platinum and includes hits "Gotta Be Somebody," “If Today Was Your Last Day,” “Burn It To The Ground” and “Never Gonna Be Alone.”

Chris Considers - The Week In Wrestling Music

Hey everyone and welcome to a new blog here on www.RoadRunnerRecords.com in association with www.wrestlingnewsworld.com where I will be discussing the week in music in the wrestling world.

Primarily this blog will be focussing on World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as they use many artists to produce themes for the wrestlers, TV shows and pay per views, whereas Total Non Stop Action (TNA) tend to use for in house music for their programming.

A little bit about myself to start off. My name is Chris and I have been writing ‘Chris Reviews Smackdown’ for www.wrestlingnewsworld.com for nearly two years now as well as various pay per view review and prediction blogs. I am also a metal DJ in my hometown of Northampton. I have a keen interest in both wrestling and metal, especially the more extreme side such as of the genre and my DJ sets tend to reflect this!

My favourite bands include Lamb of God, Cannibal Corpse, Carnifex, Killswitch Engage, The Black Dahlia Murder, Kataklysm, Amon Amarth, All Shall Perish, Hatebreed, Slayer, Slipknot, Machine Head and Sacred Mother Tongue to name a few.

Metal and wrestling have been synonymous with each other since the mid nineties with major artists such as Limp Bizkit, P.O.D Saliva and Kid Rock often performing live at WWE events, whilst bands such as Metallica, Sevendust, ACDC and others regularly provide the theme song to WWE pay per views.

This week I would like to focus on WWE Monday Night RAW and WWE Friday Night Smackdown as both have recently received new theme songs. RAW now has Nickelback’s ‘Burn It To The Ground’ and Smackdown has Divide The Day’s ‘Let It Roll’

For each song I review in this blog I will rate it between one and five stars much as we do for wrestling matches

RAW Theme – Nickelback: Burn It To The Ground

This song has replaced the awesome ‘…To Be Loved’ song by Papa Roach which had been the theme to RAW since 2007 so had a lot to live up to. Thankfully Nickelback deliver big time here with a stomping anthem that will soon become synonymous with WWE’s flagship show. A good bouncing beat, grooving riffs and a crazy solo all combine with Chad’s gruff vocals and lyrics to make this an excellent soundtrack to our Monday night viewing. Whilst most people will be familiar with Nickelback’s slower commercial hits such as ‘Rockstar’ and ‘How You Remind Me’, this song is a perfect example of the bouncier and groovier sound found of many of their albums.

Chris’ Star Rating: ****

Smackdown Theme – Divide The Day: Let It Roll

This song has replaced Rise Against’s ‘If You Rock Like Me’ which I found to be incredibly annoying and whiny. Unlike RAW, Smackdown, and ECW (the third brand in WWE) change their theme songs fairly regularly so this was a welcome move. I was not familiar with the South Californian quintet before hearing this song so I have checked out some of their other material and I have to say this is certainly a band that has changed its sound to make themselves more marketable. The band’s early offerings such as 2005’s ‘Pretty Girls with Ugly Boys’ featured some pretty heavy and brutal tunes that I guess could be tagged as Screamo or Metalcore. However with their forthcoming release the band have modified their sound, and become something of a mix between Avenged Sevenfold (they clearly model their image on A7X as well!) and Saliva. This song is the perfect example of that sound and is very comparable to Avenged Sevenfold’s ‘Almost Easy’, just without the crunching riffs. I do not dislike this song, but unlike Nickelback, it does not stand out in any way and sounds fairly generic with a very basic rhythm and simplistic vocals. So whilst this is a hundred times better than Rise Against, I was hoping for something more as a theme song for the show that had previously featured songs from Drowning Pool and Marilyn Manson as its theme tunes.

Chris’ Star Rating: **1/2

Each week I will be compiling an ultimate wrestling music playlist where I will be telling you about the best songs from the past and present in both WWE and TNA and informing you which album (if any) the tracks are located on. This week it is the theme of current WWE mega star CM Punk.

The Ultimate Wrestling Playlist #1 – Killswitch Engage – This Fire Burns (CM Punk’s theme song) – Found on WWE Wreckless Intent (2006, BMG)

If someone asked me to pick my favourite wrestling song of all time, it would without a doubt by ‘This Fire Burns’, not only that but I would say that if you can to pick one song to define the Metalcore genre in general then this would be the perfect sing to do so. Powerful and heavy riffs fluctuate throughout the song and a soaring epic chorus makes this perhaps one of Killswitch’s finest moments and I am very surprised they never committed this song to any of their own albums. There is a funny back story to how this song came in to WWE, Popular heel (this means bad guy in wrestling terms) Randy Orton took this song to WWE Chairman Vince McMahon and requested it to be used for his personal music, however after only one appearance with the song, it was taken from Orton and given to debuting ECW star CM Punk which infuriated Orton and apparently he is still bitter about it to this day. This song perfectly suits the character of CM Punk whether he is playing a babyface (this means good guy in wrestling terms) or a heel. I regularly play ‘This Fire Burns’ in my DJ sets and it always gets a great response to the point where many of the Northampton Metal scene are now familiar with it! I urge any Metalcore fans out there to check out this awesome tune and add it to your collection!

That is all for this debut edition of Chris Considers The Week In Wrestling Music. If you have any comments, queries or suggestions feel free to drop me an email to a_agreement_called_forever@hotmail.com Please check us out over at www.wrestlingnewsworld.com for all of your WWE, TNA and ROH news, rumours and spoilers! I shall be back next week probably on Thursday. I hope you all have a metal week and keep headbanging!

Email me on a_agreement_called_forever@hotmail.com, add me on facebook: www.facebook.com\wnws.chris.jacks or follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/WNWsChrisJacks I would love to hear from you!

The WWE Loves Nickelback!

The WWE has adopted Nickelback's "Burn It To The Ground" as the official theme song of WWE Raw. GO HERE for the full story.

10 Best Nickelback Songs

The AOL Radio Blog has posted this Nickelback list based on the listening habits of AOL users. Do you agree with the list?

Also, Nickelback's new video for "Never Gonna Be Alone" will be coming exclusively to YouTube very soon. Keep an eye on these pages and our twitter account for details.

Who Dominated 2009?

You decide. GO HERE to vote for Fuse's best video of 2009.

Slipknot's "Dead Memories" is in the running against Mudvayne's "Do What You Do." Nickelback's "If Today Was Your Last Day" also made the cut and is facing Shinedown's "Sound of Madness."

Vote now!!!!

Vote for Nickelback at the AMAs

Nickelback are up for Favorite Band in the POP/ROCK category this year along with Kings of Leon and Black Eyed Peas. Read about all of the American Music Award nominees here.

You can help them win. Go to ABC.com and place your vote for Nickelback as favorite band!

Nickelback Nominated for American Music Award

Sprechen Sie Nickelback?

Last weekend Nickelback brought their special brand of hard rock to Germany. Performing "Burn It to the Ground" at a celebrity stock car race in front of a European audience 60,000 strong, the broadcast reached over 4 million racing fans across Europe. And yes, plenty of fire!

VH1 Top 20 Countdown with Nickelback

We have your Saturday morning all planned out:

Step 1
Go brush your teeth.

Step 2
Make a cup of coffee (or a mimosa).

Step 3
Throw together a yummy breakfast.

Step 4
Tune in to VH1 at 9AM Saturday (or TiVO it you lazy bums) and watch our two hour episode of VH1's Top 20 Countdown with Nickelback. Lots of cool, fun segments with the band. You'll also get to see a video from them in the countdown at a number divisible by three.

EA Sports Announces Game Soundracks

Our bands are gamers, our fans are gamers, and now our bands have even more music out there in the sports world.

MADDEN NFL 10

Killswitch Engage “Reckoning”

Airbourne “Heads Are Gonna Roll”

Slipknot “Duality”

NHL 10

CKY “Hellions on Parade”

Dragonforce “Heroes of Our Time”

Nickelback “Burn It To The Ground”

Megadeth “Peace Sells” (not a RR title)

Full press release and track listings are here.

Nickelback Play Hockey with The Islanders

Watch them at IceWorks here.

All Nickelback Radio Station Launches at AOL Radio

Get your fix of Nickelback all this month at AOL Radio and you could win a trip to Vegas to party with Nickelback*. Click here to find out details and listen.

*open to U.S. residents only

WHAT'S THE FREE SHIT TODAY?

We're giving away DevilDriver, Dream Theater, and Killswitch Engage music.

There are also some great new contests for visitors to RR.com: win Call of Duty: World at War, an autographed Stone Sour photo, signed CD booklets from Dream Theater and Opeth, or a DragonForce patch.

In tickets we've got two biggies: a flyaway to party with Nickelback in Vegas (sponsored by AOL Radio) and a chance to win tickets to a Collective Soul show in your hood.

Finally, from our partners: the Killswitch Engage fan club is offering a backstage tour with the band, Madina Lake are giving away a signed guitar, win a copy of Guitar Hero: Smash Hits featuring DragonForce from AltSounds.com, and enter Megadeth's Endgame lyrics contest.

NICKELBACK EXCLUSIVE VIDEO WORLD PREMIERE NOW!

Noisecreep at AOL Music is presenting the exclusive world premiere of Nickelback's new video for "Burn It To The Ground," from their new album Dark Horse, in stores now.

GO HERE to watch Nickelback rock the crowd in this explosive new video!

We're also giving you the chance to win a free trip to Vegas and party with Nickelback! GO HERE to check out the "Party Like A Rockstar" contest for details.

NO SERVICE FEE WEDNESDAY @ LIVE NATION

With Nickelback, Theory of a Deadman, Killswitch Engage, Lynyrd Skynyrd out on the road this summer for their various tours, we're pleased to let you know that July 1st is a LiveNation No Service Fee Wednesday.

Discounts apply to 4-Packs and 6-Packs of ticket bundles. Runs for 24 hours only starting at 12:01 AM local time on July 1st. This offer is subject to availability at participating venues and select shows. Parking and other fees may apply. Cannot be combined with any other offer or discount.

Visit www.livenation.com at the above date and time to get in on the action.

NICKELBACK CLEANS UP AT CANADA's MMVA's

Nickelback's video for "Gotta Be Somebody" swept Canada's Much Music Video Awards yesterday with three prestigious awards: Best Video, Best Post-Production, MuchLOUD Best Rock Video.

Here's a photo of the guys at the show:

WE'VE GOT FREE SHIT FOR YOU

If you don't know yet, we launched a redesigned Free Shit section last week. Here's a taste of our latest promotions:

1. Tell us what you would do if today was your last day and win Chad Kroeger's guitar.

2. Click one button and a copy of The Parlor Mob's And You Were a Crow on vinyl could be yours.

3. Was your last relationship not meant to be? Tell us how and you could win a signed Theory of a Deadman guitar.

Must be awesome to enter.

NICKELBACK AND SLIPKNOT VIDEOS @ ARTISTDIRECT

Do our good pals at ARTISTdirect.com a favor and watch both videos.

Nickelback - If Today Was Your Last Day

Slipknot - Sulfur

While you're there, check around for past interviews with both bands.