With “Dark Horse” released on November 18 and an upcoming tour set for late February, Nickelback has a lot to look forward to and wants kids to ditch ‘Guitar Hero’ for real guitars.

“I feel like there’s not enough rock bands out there, especially when we go on the road,” front man Chad Kroeger said to MTV News.

“It’s tough to find other bands out there, because either they’re making a record, or they just got done touring. So kids: Start rock bands. Set down the ‘Guitar Hero,’ learn how to play an actual guitar and start a band, because it’s hard to find more bands to put a solid rock-and-roll package together, to get out there. It’s getting harder and harder, but I think we’ve done it.”

According to Kroeger, the album was not easy to make and took more than six months to create. The band hopes to have even more success then they did with 2005’s “All the Right Reasons,” “The bar’s been raised — it’s pretty high, especially if we are going to be looking back at the last record.

“I think our fans were pretty happy with it, and we made a lot of new fans with that one, and we want to keep ‘em. Call us greedy, but we want to keep ‘em all. We want to keep going back to all those towns and have those people show up and want to sing our songs back at us, twice as loud. That’s why we keep doing what we’re doing. This is a good gig. It’s a lot of fun, and it’s every young kid’s dream.”






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