Amid touring their explosive 2022 album, Three Days Grace are confronting the animal they've become by going back to their roots. The reunion the band's original frontman Adam Gontier teased last year came to fruition onstage in Huntsville, AB, last night (April 19).
Gontier left the band a decade ago in 2013, then fronted Saint Asonia, and recently started a new project called Diviidedby. In his absence, bassist Brad Walst's brother Matt took over lead vocals.
While fittingly supporting Shinedown — might we call this a second chance? — at the Von Braun Center's Probst Arena, Gontier took to the stage to bring past and present tenses together. He and Walst shared singing responsibilities on two songs from Three Days Grace's 2006 album One-X, "Never Too Late" and "Riot."
As anyone would, the band informed the masses by writing "Soooo we did a thing" on Instagram, sharing a photo of the five of them onstage with their arms around each other.
In 2022, Gontier told Rock Feed that he thought reuniting with the band, which he formed with Brad and drummer Neil Sanderson in 1992, "would be a lot of fun." Gontier said, "We haven't really talked about doing anything, not yet anyway, but I feel like something like that is most likely down the road at some point."
He and the current frontman shared multiple hugs while wailing on the rock radio hits together, so it certainly seems like they don't hate everything about each other. As Gontier noted, "There's a certain point where it just doesn't matter anymore. I think we've all kinda reached that point where it's kind of pointless. Life's too short to be angry at old things or old grudges."
Watch fan footage of the performance below.
Gontier left the band a decade ago in 2013, then fronted Saint Asonia, and recently started a new project called Diviidedby. In his absence, bassist Brad Walst's brother Matt took over lead vocals.
While fittingly supporting Shinedown — might we call this a second chance? — at the Von Braun Center's Probst Arena, Gontier took to the stage to bring past and present tenses together. He and Walst shared singing responsibilities on two songs from Three Days Grace's 2006 album One-X, "Never Too Late" and "Riot."
As anyone would, the band informed the masses by writing "Soooo we did a thing" on Instagram, sharing a photo of the five of them onstage with their arms around each other.
In 2022, Gontier told Rock Feed that he thought reuniting with the band, which he formed with Brad and drummer Neil Sanderson in 1992, "would be a lot of fun." Gontier said, "We haven't really talked about doing anything, not yet anyway, but I feel like something like that is most likely down the road at some point."
He and the current frontman shared multiple hugs while wailing on the rock radio hits together, so it certainly seems like they don't hate everything about each other. As Gontier noted, "There's a certain point where it just doesn't matter anymore. I think we've all kinda reached that point where it's kind of pointless. Life's too short to be angry at old things or old grudges."
Watch fan footage of the performance below.