Canadian rockers Three Days Grace have by no means performed it secure. For over twenty years, they’ve delivered a few of rock’s most anthemic intestine punches—”I Hate Every part About You,” “Animal I Have Turn into,” and “By no means Too Late”—whereas weathering lineup adjustments, shifting sounds, and carving out a legacy that refuses to fade.
Now, they’re flipping the script as soon as once more. Unique frontman Adam Gontier is again, however not as a alternative—he’s teaming up with Matt Walst in a uncommon, dual-frontman powerhouse. As an alternative of a passing of the torch, it’s a collision of previous and current, rewriting the band’s subsequent chapter in real-time.
“I grew up similar city, watching these guys follow in my basement after I was 12 years outdated,” Walst tells Billboard. “So I’ve at all times been an enormous fan of the band. It’s fairly cool to see this occur.”
This reunion had been years within the making. Gontier made a shock look with Three Days Grace in 2023, igniting rumors of a comeback. By October 2024, the band made it official after dropping a video of Gontier and Walst linking up on the studio. For the primary time, Three Days Grace would have two lead singers.
If the response from followers was explosive, the impression on the charts was simply as instant.
Their first single as a dual-fronted band, “Mayday,” skyrocketed to No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. It marked their 18th No. 1–the primary that includes vocals from Gontier since “Distress Loves My Firm” in 2013.
“We knew folks would freak out about it, however I didn’t suppose it might fly as much as No. 1 on Billboard in 5 weeks to No.1,” Walst says. “It’s now sat there for 5 weeks. It’s been No. 1 for half the time it’s been out. We’re blown away by it. It’s loopy.”
With new music and a large tour alongside Disturbed on the horizon, the following huge query turned—how do two powerhouse singers cut up up vocal duties?
“We begin rehearsals subsequent week, after which we’re out on tour with Disturbed throughout America, and will probably be the primary time we’ve gone by the songs collectively,” explains Walst, who took on the function of frontman in 2013.
For older songs initially sung by Gontier, Walst says, “I’m enjoying guitar and singing harmonies, backups.” In the meantime, for songs from his personal tenure, “he’s enjoying guitar and singing backups, after which for the brand new track we’re gonna sing collectively.”
Walst has a deep respect for Gontier’s expertise, significantly his vocal vary. “He can sing actually, actually excessive, he can hit notes that means, means up there. It’s insane.”
That skill, Walst believes, has solely grown stronger over time. “It’s fairly cool to look at,” he added.
However when it got here to recording their first tracks as a two-frontman band, they took an unconventional strategy to deciding who sings what.
“Generally we did rock paper scissors,” Walst laughs. “Like, okay, who’s singing this half?”
“Quite a lot of the time within the studio, it simply comes naturally. Who’s gonna sing what and the place,” he explains. “It’s been loads of enjoyable. We’ve got one another’s backs and we cheer one another on once we do a superb take. It’s fairly cool to be a part of.”
“We get alongside. We’re each fairly chill folks, and we’ve recognized one another for years and years,” he provides of his relationship together with his fellow frontman. “We grew up collectively. We’re from the identical city, so it’s not like if Van Halen singers tried to get collectively and do a tour.”
With a deep catalog of Billboard rock hits, the band is gearing up for a high-energy setlist, that includes the heavy-hitting sound that has fueled their legacy—solely this time, with much more fireplace behind it.
“I feel we’re simply gonna bash them over the pinnacle with some hits,” Walst jokes.
“We’ve got loads of heavier songs on this album,” Walst teases. “However now we have our ballads too, some lighter stuff. With each album, we prefer to stability it out with heavier songs and a few lighter materials, simply so there’s variety in it. ‘Mayday’ wouldn’t be the heaviest track on the report, but it surely’s up there.”
After 20 years of profession highs, lineup adjustments, and numerous excursions, the band is aware of longevity in rock isn’t nearly surviving—it’s about evolving and never letting egos get in the way in which of the music. For Walst, that’s by no means been a problem for the band.
“We don’t get offended if our concept isn’t ok, or if our suggestion doesn’t undergo,” he continues. “It’s concerning the track. No matter is greatest for the track is gonna go.”
“I feel it’s simply writing about stuff that is occurring in our lives or round us, and that folks can apply themselves to the music and really feel that,” Walst displays. “In the event that they’re depressed or they’ll attain on to a track, like ‘By no means Too Late,’ or they going by a breakup, listening to ‘I Hate Every part About You.’”
As Three Days Grace kick off their new chapter, Walst is wanting ahead to what’s forward.
“When the gang goes nuts, it fuels me,“ he says about performing stay. “The extra they go loopy, the extra I am going loopy. I haven’t been on a stage for a yr, and it’s gonna be attention-grabbing to get again up there and really feel the butterflies and really feel that vitality once more. It’s sort of like a drug you’ll be able to’t get anyplace else.”
