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Nickelback bassist Mike Kroeger and drummer Ryan Vikedal establish a full-throttle momentum in the first moments of "Never Again," the song's intensity levels increasing further with Ryan Peake’s slashing riff and Chad Kroeger’s ferocious vocal performance. Besides being a compelling opening salvo for Nickelback’s third album, the song is an unequivocal statement of purpose, one that demonstrates just how far the band had come since its founding in 1995. Like "How You Remind Me" and "Too Bad"—the two songs that helped turn <i>Silver Side Up</i> into the band's commercial breakthrough—"Never Again" rewards Chad Kroeger for his diligence through the Alberta rockers’ early years; the young songwriter learned his craft by reverse-engineering hits by the era’s biggest acts to figure out how he could most effectively construct his own song, then road-testing the results over the course of hundreds of live show. This can be considered the section of the post-grunge Venn diagram where Nickelback’s ambition overlaps with the wider rock audience’s hunger for sounds that moved past the tropes of '90s rock while reinforcing '70s hard-rock fundamental. Though the burly likes of "Woke Up This Morning" still indicated Nickelback’s debt to Pearl Jam and Alice In Chains—two former clients of <i>Silver Side Up</i> co-producer Rick Parashar—"Just For" and "Hollywood" draw Nickelback closer to the fresher, bolder, and arguably heavier likes of Linkin Park and System Of A Down. .

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