Music from Hinder

Okie Post-Grunge

The breadbasket of the country has given the world its nod to great hard rock. Band Hinder blends grunge with hard rock into a style all their own, complete with all the vices of their greatest rock predecessors. Hinder worships the let’s-get-drunk-and-screw rock band mantra. Contemporaries include Nickelback, Godsmack and Buckcherry, among a slew of young, edgy rock bands with guitar axes to grind.

Band members Joe Garvey and Cody Hanson started to pull their musical talents together in 2000, soon adding cover rocker Justin Winkler, then Mark King, and Mike Rodden. Until that point all had been independently hawking their post-grunge guitar riffs at small bars and anyplace they were welcomed.

When they first formed, the new band wrote, recorded and released their own album, Far From Close. Universal somehow heard them, liked the band’s sound and singed them on for an album. In 2005 Extreme Behavior was released. The album has enjoyed wide attention; both good and bad. Critics have argued the band is another Nickelback and without the same style and vigor. Nevertheless the album features a couple of hit singles. “Lips of an Angel” continues to rank high on the charts. It’s a gravelly love ballad, or as close to one as a hard rock, post-grunge band gets.

Extreme Behavior (2005):

1. Get Stoned
2. How Long
3. By the Way
4. Nothin’ Good About Goodbye
5. Bliss (I Don’t Wanna Know)
6. Better Than Me
7. Room 21
8. Lips of an Angel
9. Homecoming Queen
10. Shoulda