After surprising THREE DAYS GRACE fans during a performance in Nashville with the band’s original singer Adam Gontier, the band has now announced the official return of Gontier to vocals, with Matt Walst remaining a lead vocalist as well. The esteemed rock veterans let fans in early on the shocking announcement, teasing a video across social media of Gontier and Walst linking up at the studio. Now, they’ve shared an original music video for brand new single ‘Mayday’, streaming now via Sony Music.
On the reunion, Adam Gontier shares:
“I feel like it’s been seamless, better than we were expecting. It’s like we got back in a room together and picked up where we left off. We have been friends for so long it’s kind of natural to get back in the room together.”
Matt Walst echoes and adds:
“We feel this song is a reflection of the current state of the world – An unsettling mix of disillusionment, exhaustion, and denial. And the sense that we’re all on the brink—emotionally, socially, and environmentally, yet we refuse to admit defeat. So even though we feel like we are barely surviving we keep on moving forward, one foot in front of the other. Combining over 20 years of Three Days Grace and doing something that no band has ever done. I’m excited for the fans to hear it!”
Since 2003, THREE DAYS GRACE have staked a spot amongst the hard rock vanguard, breaking records, toppling charts, and moving millions of units worldwide. Overall the band has eighteen #1 records at Mediabase Active Rock and seventeen #1s at Billboard/BDS Active Rock. The band has been nominated multiple times for “Best Rock Album” at the Juno Awards in addition to multiple nominations for “Rock Song of the Year” and “Rock Artist of the Year” at iHeartRadio Music Awards.
Moreover, the band consistently averaged a staggering 13 million monthly listeners on Spotify—remaining one of the most listened to rock bands in the world. With over 5 billion combined streams, top tracks include hard rock anthems ‘I Hate Everything About You‘, ‘Riot‘, ‘Time of Dying‘, among others. To date, their veritable arsenal of number one includes ‘Home‘, ‘Just Like You‘, ‘Pain‘, ‘Animal I Have Become‘, ‘Never Too Late‘, ‘Break‘, ‘Good Life‘, ‘World So Cold‘, ‘Misery Loves My Company‘, ‘The High Road‘, ‘Chalk Outline‘, ‘I am Machine‘, ‘Painkiller‘, ‘The Mountain‘, ‘Infra-Red‘, ‘Right Left Wrong‘, ‘So Called Life‘, and ‘Lifetime‘.
