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Three Days Grace is leaning into the 'magic' two singers can offer in their new era

A full album is on the way, 'We're just finessing and putting the sprinkles on the cupcake'

By Joe Cingrana Nov 22, 2024

Joining host Abe Kanan today for a special Audacy Check In, Neil Sanderson of Three Days Grace is here to talk about the band's brand new single "Mayday," their 2024/2025 plans after reuniting with singer Adam Gontier, and more.

LISTEN NOW: Audacy Check In with Three Days Grace

After first teasing fans that an important announcement was on the way, Canadian rockers Three Days Grace revealed they would be reuniting with original vocalist Adam Gontier following a decade away along with co-founders Neil Sanderson on drums, Brad Walst on bass, Matt Walst continuing his vocal and guitar duties, and lead guitarist Barry Stock who joined the band in 2003.

Today, fans get the first taste of what's on the 3DG horizon with their first single of 2024, "Mayday." "Sometimes life is turbulent," Matt Walst told us of the new song's inspiration, "but beyond the clouds is blue skies. So, just keep going."

“First of all, I feel just gratitude for being at this point in my career,” Neil tells Abe at the start of their chat. “We've been doing this almost 25 years, and just to have so much excitement about the new music and, you know, we were able to pull this off, put it together, all good vibes. We don't look back, we only look forward and it's gonna be just bigger and better than it's ever been at this point. I'm in my 40s… it's like, ‘Damn, let's go!’”

With Adam back in the band, 3DG will now have dual singers he explains. “It's kind of crazy to think that we have this huge chapter with Adam and then this massive chapter with Matt and with like 17 number 1 singles thanks to people like you and people that care about the music and the fans… We've got all these songs that were really successful at Rock radio and now we can just play them all any way that we want. I have envy for the singers, because they only have to sing half the show. I still got to play drums the whole damn time."

On the new single, “Mayday,” both singers are featured. “At first it was like we didn't know how we were gonna kind of like slice it all up and who was going to do what,” Neil remembers, “as we first started sitting down and writing new stuff and trying things out and experimenting. As soon as each guy kind of laid their thing in, it was like, ‘Oh man, this is deeper than we would have thought. We played to each singer's strengths and they didn't try to be anything that they're not. It just creates this completely new dynamic, a new facet to the sound.”

“I did see them at one point, like rock-paper-scissors to see who's going to sing the next line, which was kind of funny, but that's how naturally organic it happened,” he adds. “It wasn't forced at all. We started thinking about bands like Pink Floyd back in the day that had two singers and they were both completely different characters with different voices -- but that's part of the magic with it. So, we just really leaned into that.”

The impetus to get Adam back in the band he says started with simple conversations. “A lot of the stuff on the Internet over the years is like all this bad blood and stuff, and I think a lot of people made that up in their mental cinema… We were kind of like, ‘Stuff happens.’ The thing about being in a band is, it's like being in a marriage with three other people. So things happen, people go different ways, people have different life directions and stuff. 13 years ago, we kind of came to a crossroads where that became a major factor, but all this time later, it just made sense to investigate what it would be like to make this thing that would be bigger than better than anything we've ever done.”

After performing guest vocals with them at a concert and seeing the crowd’s reaction, “We're like, ‘Let's sit around with some guitars and see if we can be creative together because that was the only thing that mattered,” he says. “We need to be able to vibe out; it's like we could pull a stunt or something, but that that's not what we wanted to do. He’s coming back as a full member. This is long term.”

“We got together with acoustic guitars down at our guitar player Barry's house, who's got this beautiful country property, and it's like time had kind of stood still,” Neil explains. “Adam and I have been in a band since we were 14 years old, so we got a lot of history. We came up doing a lot of the same stuff and being part of the same experiences, so the creative part of it just started happening. We were like, ‘Let's just chase it.’

A new album is definitely on the way, Neil tells us. “That's why I was late. I was working on something. It's about there… we've got a body of work that would constitute a full record, but we have a little bit of time, so we're kind of maybe seeing if we can beat out a couple of the songs with new songs, or augment some of the songs. Just trying to pick away, but it's a good position to be at, where we have the goods. We're just finessing and putting the sprinkles on the cupcake, if you will.”

“I guess actually there are songs that are kind of heavy on one guy, less than the other, but the first single, ‘Mayday’ is pretty much both guys just kind of going back and forth. When we go live, maybe like Matt will sing Adam's song and Adam will sing Matt's song… there's no rules now, right? We can do whatever we want, which is awesome.”

“Our tour starts up in late February,” he continues, “and that's gonna just be like, ‘OK, let's go, let's see what it looks like,’ and that's part of the adventure. That's part of the fun… You don't know what the outcome is, but if you just plan as best you can, and do it for the right reasons, then it becomes something epic.”

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