Line #29 Music/ThreeDaysGrace


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2	[[caption-width-right:280:The band in 2003]]
3	[[caption-width-right:280:[[labelnote:Click here to see the band during the One-X run]]https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Three-Days-Grace_the_band_2218.jpg]][[/labelnote]]
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5	->''"So what if you can see the darkest side of me?\
6	No one will ever change this animal I have become,\
7	Help me believe it's not the real me,\
8	Somebody help me tame this animal I have become,\
9	Help me believe it's not the real me,\
10	Somebody help me tame this animal,\
11	This animal I have become!"''
12	-->-- "Animal I Have Become"
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14	Three Days Grace is an [[AlternativeRock Alternative]] HardRock[=/=] PostGrunge group from [[CanadianMusic Norwood, Ontario, Canada]]. Formed in 1992 as the band Groundswell, they consisted of Adam Gontier (vocals, rhythm guitar), Neil Sanderson (drums, backing vocals), Brad Walst (Bass, occasional backing vocals), Phil Crowe (Guitar) and Joe Grant (Guitar), all attending high school at the time. This incarnation would ultimately break up 1995. They later reformed under the name Three Days Grace in 1997 as the trio of Gontier, Sanderson and Walst. In 2003 after their debut tour they enlisted Barry Stock as lead guitarist, allowing Gontier to simply sing in concert.
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16	They released the demo for "I Hate Everything About You" in 2003, scoring them a record deal with Creator/JiveRecords. They released their [[SelfTitledAlbum self-titled]] debut album that same year.
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18	On January 9, 2013, long-time singer Adam Gontier left, citing health issues. Brad Walst's brother Matt, then with My Darkest Days, filled in on vocals during their 2013 tour, and eventually was promoted to full-time vocalist on March 28, 2014, with "Painkiller" released as the band's first post-Gontier single not too long after. The band's first album with Matt, titled ''Human'', was released in 2015 with mixed to positive reception. They released their sixth album ''Outsider'' on March 9, 2018.
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20	Gontier also preformed guest vocals in the Music/{{Apocalyptica}} song "I Don't Care" and in the Canadian supergroup Big Dirty Band for ''Series/TrailerParkBoys: TheMovie'' along with Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee of Music/{{Rush\|Band}}, Die Mannequin's Care Failure, Ian Thornley of the band Thornley, and Music/TheTeaParty's Jeff Burrows.
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22	!! Members
23	!!! Current
24	* Brad Walst – bass, backing vocals (since 1997)
25	* Neil Sanderson – drums, keyboards, backing vocals (since 1997)
26	* Barry Stock – lead guitar (since 2003)
27	* Matt Walst – lead vocals (since 2013), rhythm guitar (since 2018)
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29	!!! Former
30	* Adam Gontier: lead vocals (1997–2013), rhythm guitar (2003–2013), lead guitar (1997–2003)
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32	!! Discography:
33	* ''Wave of Popular Feeling'' (as Groundswell) - 1995
34	* ''Three Days Grace'' - 2003
35	* ''One-X'' - 2006
36	* ''Life Starts Now'' - 2009
37	* ''Transit Of Venus'' - 2012
38	* ''Human'' - 2015
39	* ''Outsider'' - 2018
40	* ''Explosions'' - 2022
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43	!!'''I Trope Everything About You:'''
44	* AlternativeMetal: One of the most popular alt-metal acts of the 2000s after the collapse of nu-metal. Their more recent works, though, downplay the metal aspects.
45	* AbandonedWarehouse: The setting for the "Pain" music video.
46	* AllJustADream: The "Animal I Have Become" video. [[spoiler: Subverted in that his room's still a mess...]]
47	* AnimatedMusicVideo: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkSASi_eN_k Misery Loves My Company]]." Overlaps with DerangedAnimation.
48	* TheBandMinusTheFace: They were one of the biggest rock bands out there with Adam Gontier on vocals. He then left for unexplained reasons and formed Saint Asonia. The band continued with Matt Walst of My Darkest Days. Though highly controversial to say the least, and they aren't as successful as they were before, they've managed to remain a big name in the rock scene despite losing their most prominent member. The new Three Days Grace have had no problems scoring hit-after-hit on rock radio, just like they did before, even if they weren't as big as the Gontier-era hits. Although Saint Asonia also scored some rock hits, they weren't as big as the Three Days Grace hits; many old fans do, however, prefer Saint Asonia to the Walst-fronted Three Days Grace. This all changed with the release of Outsider, widely considered one of their best albums with 3 #1 singles.
49	* BandOfRelatives: Inverted; the band members have family members in ''other'' bands! Brad's younger brother Matt Walst is the lead singer of Toronto hard rock group My Darkest Days and Adam's cousin Cale Gontier plays bass for Vancouver alternative group Music/ArtOfDying (who got his start as one of TDG's guitar techs). Adam sang guest vocals on the re-recording of "''Inside It's Raining''" for AOD's major-label debut, and he'll usually make an appearance with the band to sing with them whenever they're both at the same festival. After Adam left, Matt was hired to fill in as the band's vocalist, eventually joining permanently.
50	* BreakupSong: Not actually as common as you'd think; Adam got married to his first wife after their SelfTitledAlbum was released and didn't divorce until 2013 by which time he had already left the group. Most of the songs from the debut have little to do with anger in the context of a relationship.
51	** "Last To Know" is a BreakupSong about being left for another guy.
52	* CallingTheOldManOut: "Just Like You"
53	* ChalkOutline: Used metaphorically in a song with the same name, the first single from ''Transit of Venus''.
54	* CondescendingCompassion: [[DontYouDarePityMe Rebuffed]] in "Misery Loves My Company":
55	-->I don't need your condescending / words about me looking lonely
56	* CoverVersion:
57	** "The Chain" by Music/FleetwoodMac was ultimately cut from ''Life Starts Now'', becoming a bonus track.
58	** Live, they've been known to cover anything and everything, especially during the bridge of "Home," from Music/{{Filter}}'s "Hey Man, Nice Shot" to "Lose Yourself" by Music/{{Eminem}} ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTtPuqOYUIs then there's this]]). Gontier alone likes to do spontaneous acoustic covers of old rock and alternative songs, such as "Wicked Game" by Chris Issak, "The Drugs Don't Work" by Music/TheVerve, "Rooster" by Music/AliceInChains, "Black" by Music/PearlJam, "Everything Falls Apart" by Dog's Eye View, "Another Lonely Day" by Ben Harper and "Free Fallin'" by Music/TomPetty.
59	** ''Transit of Venus'' features a cover of Music/MichaelJackson's ''Give In to Me''.
60	** They covered Music/{{Gotye}}'s "Somebody That I Used to Know."
61	* CycleOfRevenge: One of the reasons why HumansAreBastards in "Human Race": "If it's an eye for an eye then we all go blind / Is it hard to see?"
62	* DefensiveWhat: All over the place in "So What," which is about the narrator accepting his flaws and rebuffing people who criticize him.
63	-->So what if I'm crazier than crazy?\
64	So what if I'm sicker than sick?\
65	So what if I'm out of control?\
66	Maybe that's what I like about it\
67	So what?
68	* DemBones: One of Adam's mic stands, shaped like a skeletal hand gripping the mic, which he sometimes fixes into the shape of [[WardingGestures the]] [[Music/RonnieJamesDio horns]] for fun.
69	* {{Determinator}}: "The Mountain" expresses this sentiment through its lyrics and powerful riffs:
70	-->Every day I'm just survivin'\
71	Keep climbin' the mountain\
72	Even when I feel like dyin'\
73	Keep climbin' the mountain\
74	Every time I think I'm over it\
75	I wake up in the bottom of it all again\
76	I'm still survivin', keep climbin'\
77	Keep climbin' the mountain
78	* DontYouDarePityMe: "Misery Loves My Company" rebuffs CondescendingCompassion:
79	-->I don't need your condescending\
80	words about me looking lonely.\
81	I don't need your arms to hold me\
82	'cause misery is waiting on me!
83	* DrivingSong: "Car Crash" compares a passionate but doomed relationship to, well, a car crash.
84	-->All I see is shattered glass and\
85	Red lights passing\
86	My life flashing!\
87	Headed for the same disaster\
88	Faster and faster and faster
89	* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness:
90	** Their work as Groundswell. The music is more uptempo and melodic-at times sounding like PopPunk with downtuned guitars-and Adam's lyrics, while hardly sunshine and rainbows, aren't quite as dour as his later works.
91	** Their first two music videos with Barry Stock, "Just Like You" and "Home" have Barry and Adam play guitar together. Subsequent music videos would have only Barry playing the guitar while Adam just sang, though he still played the guitar during live performances.
92	* EnemyWithin: One possible interpretation of ''Animal I Have Become''.
93	* FromBadToWorse: In "Tell Me Why," "It goes from good to bad to worse so fast."
94	* GenreShift: Not their tone, but their lyrics. When Adam Gontier was the lead vocalist, several of TDG's songs were about addiction: struggling with it, overcoming it, or succumbing to it. With Matt Walst as lead vocalist, their songs speak more about emotional isolation and/or the struggle to connect with others.
95	* GiveMeAReason: "Give Me a Reason" is a variation of a BreakUpSong where the narrator asks his abusive partner to give him a reason to finally end their relationship.
96	-->Give me a reason for disaster\
97	And I'll be happy ever after
98	* GriefSong: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REpmQ8GdMEg Fallen Angel]]" is about the grief drummer Neil Sanderson's mother felt when his brother and father died when he was five years old felt and how Neil didn't want her to fall as well.
99	* HumansAreBastards: "Human Race" is about humans constantly competing, fighting, and [[CycleOfRevenge getting back at each other]].
100	* IAmWhatIAm: "So What" is all about the narrator accepting his flaws.
101	-->I am who I am and I'll never be like you\
102	You can say whatever you like\
103	If it's so wrong I don't wanna be right
104	* IHateSong:
105	** Many songs, such as "Home" are about hating people.
106	** "I Hate Everything About You" is a ZigZagged example about [[TheMasochismTango love-hate relationship]].
107	--->I hate everything about you / Why do I love you?
108	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: In a very strange way, Adam serves as this in the video of "Animal I Have Become". His dark side becomes more prominent, and as a result he becomes more detatched and abrasive, but he still has good intentions and fears that his negative traits are outweighing his positive traits.
109	* LastNoteNightmare: Played with to the point of subversion in that while Gontier-era Three Days Grace were fond of this, it was usually during the chorus or other random parts of the song, not so much the last note itself. Adam Gontier just loves to sing in a soft voice and then scream at you five seconds later.
110	* LighterAndSofter: ''Life Starts Now'' compared to the first two albums. Some of the songs are easily the softest the band has ever done like "Lost In You", "Last To Know" and the self-titled track, and even most of the harder songs on it aren't quite as hard as most of their material from beforehand.
111	* LivingEmotionalCrutch: "Nothing to Lose but You" is an ode to one.
112	-->You're the only hope that I hold inside\
113	[...]\
114	Cause you know all my secrets\
115	All my demons and you keep 'em in check\
116	[...]\
117	I know that I can't undo\
118	The self-destruction, the damage I've done\
119	I've got nothing to lose but you\
120	And I lose it everyday inside of my head\
121	I don't know if I'll be alright\
122	Cause if I didn't have you, I'd be better off dead\
123	You're the reason I'm still alive
124	* LongestSongGoesLast: "One-X" (4:46) and "The Abyss" (4:09) are the longest songs on ''One-X'' and ''Outsider'', with both being the final track on each.
125	* LoveIsADrug: "Painkiller" is an odd, creepy (in)version where the narrator seeks to become someone's drug:
126	-->You know I'll give you one for free\
127	Forever you're coming back to me\
128	Now I'm gonna give you what you need\
129	'Cause I know what you fiend on and what you lean on\
130	And what you lean on\
131	The shoulder you cry on\
132	The dose that you die on
133	* TheMasochismTango: "I Hate Everything About You."
134	-->I hate everything about you / Why do I love you?
135	* MessyHair: The way Adam styled his hair around ''One-X''.
136	* MetalScream:
137	** Gontier gets one at the end of "Riot." Special mention goes to "Home".
138	** "The Abyss" has Matt doing one at the end.
139	* MrFanservice: Matt Walst is a very fit and handsome man who can dance very well (especially prominent during their live performances). Original singer Adam Gontier is also a ruggedly handsome man.
140	* NeverMyFault: The subject of "Villain I'm Not" habitually blames everything on the narrator.
141	-->You want me to be guilty, to be the one who's wrong\
142	So easy to blame me, it's been that way for so long
143	* NiceGuy: Adam is a tireless advocate for those overcoming drug addiction and/or depression, even today, despite no longer being in the band.
144	* NightmareFace: In the "Animal I Have Become" video, Adam's reflection is distorted into a wicked snarl.
145	* ObligatoryBondageSong: This is one possible interpretation of "Pain."
146	-->Pain, I like it rough\
147	'Cause I'd rather feel pain than nothing at all
148	* PerishingAltRockVoice: When he's not [[SuddenlyShouting bellowing at the top of his lungs]], Adam's voice is rather restrained.
149	* PrecisionFStrike:
150	** "Riot", "Wake Up", "Gone Forever" and "Overrated".
151	** ''Outsider'' is more profane than the aforementioned songs, containing songs like "Right Left Wrong", "Me Against You" (which has three instances of "fuck that"), and "The New Real".
152	* PoliceState: The "Just Like You" video.
153	* PunctuatedForEmphasis: The chorus of quite a few songs tends to employ this method as a means to convey their point. Very noticeable in songs such as "Break" and "I Hate Everything About You."
154	-->Only when I stop to think about it...'' '''''I! HATE! EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU! WHY! DO I LOVE YOU?!'''
155	* RageAgainstTheReflection: The "Animal I Have Become" video.
156	* TheRockumentary: "Live at the Palace" is a half-example; there's several extensive interviews and behind-the-scenes footage intermingled between the songs.
157	* RockTrio: The band had this lineup during their early days. After recording their debut album, they recruited Barry Stock and became a four-piece.
158	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "Just Like You", "Overrated", and "Bitter Taste" all qualify as this.
159	%%* SillyLoveSongs: "Without You".
160	* SuddenlyShouting: Something Adam Gontier seemed to be ''very'' fond of while singing, to the point of it almost being a signature sound of his. Pick a song off any album during his time with the band and you'll most likely find him shouting during the chorus.
161	* SurprisinglyGentleSong: Lost In You, probably because it lacks the significantly sombre mood.
162	* SuperPoweredEvilSide: One possible interpretation of ''Animal I Have Become''. Many AMV of this song in youtube subscribe to this interpretation.
163	* VocalEvolution: Adams's voice on the debut was simply scratchy, grungy over-screaming without much technique. With the recent albums he's invited far more melody and flexibility than in his younger days, ranging from a higher register on some songs to a lower bass on others.
164	** His voice during the Groundswell days was higher-pitched and more exuberant, since he was still a teenager at the time.
165	* WhatHaveIBecome: "Animal I Have Become"
166	* WorldHalfEmpty: "World so Cold"
167	* {{Yandere}}: Especially in the song "Over and Over"
168	** NightmareFuel when you consider that this song could ''actually'' be talking about Adam's addiction to prescription drugs.
169	* YouAreNotAlone:
170	** The song "Never Too Late" speaks this message to help ease the pain of those suffering from suicidal tendencies.
171	** It's the point of the whole One-X album.

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