After a two-year absence from touring, Canadian alt-rockers Nickelback will hit the road hard this spring with a 39-date North American tour that will last just under three months.

The hectic tour-schedule will find the band playing arenas around the America and Canada, and will kick off at the I Wireless Center in Moline, IL on April 10. The tour will culminate with a concert at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. In between those dates, the band will hit virtually every major market, including Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Orlando, Minneapolis, Chicago, Dallas and Denver. Providing support for all shows will be the reunited British grunge rockers Bush, Seether and My Darkest Days. In a video announcing the tour, the band promises this tour will contain the “biggest, baddest, most over-the-top show yet.”

Dubbed the “Here and Now Tour 2012,” the tour fittingly is in support of the band’s most recent album, Here and Now. The group’s seventh studio album, Here and Now was released November 21, and debuted at number one in Canada, though it was kept out of the top spot of the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart by Michael Buble’s Christmas album. Though no further dates have been announced, it is reported that the band also will undertake a worldwide tour for the album.

In other recent Nickelback news, the band made headlines around the time of the release date for Here and Now when they it was announced that the group would play the halftime show at the Thanksgiving Day football game between the Green Bay Packers and the Detroit Lions at Ford field in Detroit. An online petition was started that suggested the band not be allowed to play the show gained over 55,000 signatures. Nickelback played the event, however, without incident.

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