Nickelback on Past Beefs With Other Bands: 'It's Like a Cockfight'

Nickelback is looking back on past disputes with other bands, calling friction they have faced "a cockfight."

While appearing on the Rig Biz Podcast, Nickelback's rhythm guitarist, keyboardist and backing vocalist Ryan Peake and bassist Mike Kroeger were asked if they had faced past conflicts that had come to a head in past years

"Oh, nothing that you haven't already read that we don't wanna replicate," Peake said of previous feuds, with Kroeger adding that there's constantly different types of "personalities" at play within the music industry.

Peake continued, "Have you seen two lead singers get together? It's like a cockfight."

Kroeger said that he does not prefer to elaborate on past conflicts, but cites different egos as to why they have engaged in quarrels with others in the business.

"Regrettable things get said on all sides and everybody kind of looks stupid. I wouldn't go on about it. But it is a game of egos, guys - it just really is. And sometimes those egos are fragile, and they get messy sometimes."

The band has had a few dust-ups with their peers, Blabbermouth reports. Back in May 2017, band member Chad Kroeger took aim at the band Stone Sour, calling them "Nickelback Lite."

"[Frontman] Corey Taylor has said some really nasty things about me before in the press. He talks about how easy it is to write a hit song. Well, show me. Show me. Write one. I have yet to hear one. They're okay. But they're not as good as Nickelback.".

After the frontman challenged Corey Taylor to "write a hit song," asking the interviewer he was speaking to to name a band with as wide of a musical palette as Nickelback.

"I can't think of another band that's as diverse as we are. I can't. And I don't think that's me talking from pride or ego. I mean, you're sitting across the table. You know what you're talking about," quipped back, before asking the interviewer to name another band that has as wide of a range of musical palette as Nickelback.

The heat seemingly came after Taylor targeted the record label they were both signed to when it was spending more time and money on promoting Nickelback.

"I'm glad they could use our money to make f-ing Nickelback happy," he said. "That's a very, very bitter subject for me, and if I ever see any of those f-ers, it's going to be brutal."

The Nickelback bandmates later called Taylor to apologize for Chad Kroeger's comments, he told 93.3 WMMR radio station shortly after the feud began.

"They were, like, 'It's not us. We promise. It's this guy. We don't...' And I had hung out with the band before, and they're super-cool dudes," Taylor said. "So I was, like... Well, I figured it wasn't them. So I don't want people holding it against the band, because it's not them. It's Captain Ego from Planet Douche."

Taylor also says that he was "drinking back then" when he made the accusations and "no one was listening" when he first fired shots at Nickelback.

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Nickelback, Stone Sour, Bands