{"id":19346,"date":"2025-08-24T00:52:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T00:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/19346\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T00:52:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T00:52:17","slug":"three-days-graces-matt-walst-adam-gontier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/19346\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Days Grace’s Matt Walst + Adam Gontier"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ahead of the release of Three Days Grace<\/a>‘s eighth studio album, Alienation<\/a>, frontmen Adam Gontier<\/a> and Matt Walst<\/a> caught up with Loudwire Nights<\/a>‘ Chuck Armstrong<\/a> to reflect on the journey that led to this moment.<\/p>\n

Listen to and watch the full conversation in the players near the end of this article.<\/p>\n

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“When we were 14, 15, 16, whatever, we wanted to get a record deal and just go on tour and play a different city every night,” Gontier shared about the earliest days of Three Days Grace.<\/p>\n

“I don’t know if the goal was we want to be the biggest band in the world \u2014 it was just we want to do this, we just want to do it.”<\/p>\n

Though Walst wasn’t in Three Days Grace in those early years \u2014 he joined when Gontier departed in 2013 \u2014 he still was very closely connected to the band.<\/p>\n

“I used to watch Adam jam with my brother [Matt] and Neil [Sanderson],” Walst said.<\/p>\n

“It was a huge inspiration for me to go out and start writing songs, I co-wrote on the first first record [Three Days Grace] … To be doing this now is full circle.”<\/p>\n

Because of this history, when Gontier came back into the fold with Three Days Grace, it was easy for him and Walst to share their frontman duties.<\/p>\n

“It’s because of that foundation,” Gontier admitted.<\/p>\n

“We got in a room together to write and it just went great.”<\/p>\n

Balancing the Two Eras of Three Days Grace on Alienation<\/p>\n

As Walst and Gontier opened up about their history together and the growing legacy of Three Days Grace, they also spent some time unpacking Alienation \u2014 including the song that as soon as they wrote it, they knew it was special.<\/p>\n

“For me, it’s ‘Kill Me Fast,'” Gontier said, with Walst quickly agreeing.<\/p>\n

“I specifically like the pre-chorus. I really like the song in general, but that specific part, every time I hear it, I get goosebumps…something about that part, it really resonates.”<\/p>\n

Whether it’s “Kill Me Fast” or any other song on Alienation, the new album captures a significant moment in the history of Three Days Grace and it just might be the best album in their catalog.<\/p>\n

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“We wanted to make sure on this album that we hit some of the classic vibe that the band had in earlier albums, as well as the newer stuff that Matt did,” Gontier shared.<\/p>\n

“[We tried] to find a balance of those two, those two eras.”<\/p>\n

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