While Chad Kroeger often appears unbothered by the hate that Nickelback receive from the rock community for, well, just being Nickelback, over the years, we'd imagine that his band being the butt of a constant, never-dying joke must have felt tiresome at times.
But in a new interview, the frontman says that late Pantera brethren Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul used to come to his aid, defending Nickelback from haters in the scene, which he describes as a "really, really lovely" thing for the brothers to do.
