Three Days Grace

                 Two Voices, Twenty Years

Three Days Grace brought the Alienation Tour to Nashville with I Prevail and The Funeral Portrait, celebrating more than two decades of songs while showing exactly what this new two-vocalist era can be.

Before Three Days Grace took the stage, The Funeral Portrait gave Nashville a proper introduction to their wonderfully dramatic corner of modern rock. Opening with an unexpected take on Tears for Fears’ “Mad World,” the Atlanta band quickly moved into their own material with “Generation Psycho,” “Blood Mother,” “Voodoo Doll” and “Holy Water.”

Frontman Lee Jennings has the kind of presence that makes an opening slot feel much less like an opening slot. As the set moved through “My Future Prediction” and “Dark Thoughts” before closing with “Suffocate City,” the band’s mix of gothic theatrics, emo and modern rock made them a natural fit for the night. There is plenty happening visually, but underneath all of it are choruses catchy enough to stand on their own.

I Prevail followed with a considerably heavier proposition. A taste of Gorillaz’s “Clint Eastwood” led into “NWO,” “Bow Down,” “Self-Destruction” and “There’s Fear in Letting Go,” quickly changing the mood of the room.

With Eric Vanlerberghe at the front, the set showed just how much territory I Prevail can cover. “Hurricane” and “Bad Things” brought out the band’s melodic side, while a brief piece of Metallica’s “Sad but True” gave Nashville something familiar to scream back. “Rain,” “God” and “Violent Nature” pushed things back into heavier territory before “Gasoline” brought their set to a close. By then, this no longer felt like a crowd simply waiting for Three Days Grace.

Then came Three Days Grace.

If you have loved this band long enough, you probably have a version of Three Days Grace that belongs specifically to you. Maybe yours begins with “I Hate Everything About You.” Maybe it is One-X playing far too loudly during your teenage years. Maybe you came later, when Matt Walst was already behind the microphone.

Nashville got all of those versions at once.

With original vocalist Adam Gontier back in the band alongside Walst, there is something genuinely satisfying about hearing songs from different periods of Three Days Grace living together in the same show. “Animal I Have Become,” “I Am Machine,” “Pain,” “Time of Dying,” “The Good Life,” “Never Too Late” and, of course, “Riot” gave the crowd plenty of opportunities to prove just how permanently some of these songs have attached themselves to us.

But the night wasn’t entirely about looking backward. “Mayday” and “Kill Me Fast” brought Alienation into the set and showed what makes this current version of Three Days Grace so interesting. Gontier’s return hasn’t erased the years Matt Walst spent fronting the band. Instead, two voices associated with two different periods of its history now get to occupy the same stage.

That makes Alienation particularly important. Released in 2025, the album is the first Three Days Grace record to feature both Gontier and Walst, and now the band is taking it around the world on the Alienation Tour.

The 2026 run stretches across North America and Europe before wrapping in Los Angeles in November, with I Prevail and The Funeral Portrait joining the U.S. dates and Finger Eleven and Royal Tusk appearing on select Canadian dates.

After more than twenty years, Three Days Grace could easily build a tour around the songs everyone already knows and call it a night. Instead, Nashville got something far more interesting: the songs we grew up with, the voice we thought had left them behind, the voice that carried them forward, and new music giving all of them somewhere else to go.

For one very loud night, we didn’t have to choose between the Three Days Grace we remember and the Three Days Grace that exists today.

We got both.