About Three Days Grace
Three Days Grace balances moments of extreme emotion on an axis of pummeling hard rock anthems and pensive balladry. Along the way, the multi-platinum record-breaking Ontario, Canada quartet have amassed billions of streams and millions of album sales, sold out arenas on multiple continents, and reached unprecedented heights, earning a staggering 20 total #1 entries on the Mediabase Active Rock Chart. In the wake of 2018’s Outsider, they picked up “Rock Artist of the Year” at the iHeartRadio Music Awards and “Rock Songwriters of the Year” for the single “The Mountain” at the SOCAN Awards. The album garnered nods for “Album of the Year” and “Rock Album of the Year” at the 2019 Juno Awards. Three years prior, 2015’s Human housed the gold-selling “I Am Machine” and “Painkiller.” Achieving dozens of gold and platinum certifications worldwide, their catalog comprises the double-platinum Three Days Grace [2003], triple-platinum One-X [2006], gold-certified Life Starts Now [2009], epic Transit of Venus [2012] and Explosions [2022]. As “one of the most-streamed rock bands in the world,” they impressively attract over 14.5 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Speaking to quietly inescapable presence, they appeared on the NBA2K19 Soundtrack curated by Travis Scott, while Jeris Johnson served up a viral cover of “Never Too Late” and the late Lil Peep and Lil Tracy have sampled “The Real You.”
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”, “Lifetime”, “Mayday” and “”Apologies”
About I Prevail
Since forming in Metro Detroit, Michigan in 2013, metalcore/post-hardcore outfit I Prevail have enjoyed vast amounts of critical and commercial success. Their first album, 2016’s Lifelines, achieved gold status in both the US and Canada, while 2019’s TRAUMA repeated that accomplishment in Canada. The latter was nominated for Best Rock Album at that year’s Grammys, with single “Bow Down” also a contender for Best Metal Performance. 2022’s TRUE POWER saw the band continue to forge their own musical path, refusing to conform to the expectations of the genre, and instead demonstrating just how much of a tour de force I Prevail’s music is.
Now, with fourth album Violent Nature, the band have taken that to the next level. Its first single— also called “Violent Nature”— is quite possibly the most brutal song the band have ever released, musically and lyrically.‘Shut the fuck up! Do me a favor!’ spits Eric Vanlerberghe bitterly as it begins.‘Cut your heart out! Swallow the razor!’ It’s an unforgiving and unhinged introduction, and it only gets more intense, ferocious and extreme from there. ‘I’m a sick motherfucker with a violent nature’ the vocalist declares with a visceral growl a few seconds later. There’s poetic license in those lyrics there for sure, but their menacing, threating and, yes, violent, nature sounds incredibly real and menacing.
“A lot of the record came from dealing with different conflicts in our personal, professional and romantic lives,” explains Vanlerberghe,“and this was a cathartic way to get through and over a lot of those things. We needed to get things off our chests. “Violent Nature” is one of the heaviest songs we’ve ever written— it’s a fantasy of actually snapping and just unleashing everything that’s been held in and held back through the years from some of these personal conflicts and strained relationships.”
While that’s the setting for the record, not everything is quite as brutal or intense, as demonstrated by its single, “Rain.” Though far from mellow, the song’s powerful, anthemic chorus practically feels like a lullaby in comparison to “Violent Nature.” Still, there are hints of that same anger and torment in its lyrics, whether that’s ‘Go grab your
knife, it’s killing season’ or the sneering, snarling declaration that ‘We’re all just born to suffer’. Nevertheless, the song exemplifies the two very different sides of this album, and the opposing forces that weave their way through it.
About Return to Dust
Every ending sparks a new beginning. Return To Dust embodies the sound of shedding the weight of the past while embracing the promise of tomorrow. The Los Angeles-based quartet—Matty Bielawski [guitar, vocals], Graham Stanush [bass, vocals], Sebastian Gonzalez [guitar], and London Hudson [drums]— brings a fresh perspective to alternative rock. Their music fuses powerful harmonies, fuzz-laden riffs, and seismic grooves, fueled by the raw energy of four Gen Z friends jamming in a garage. What may seem like a traditional approach on paper feels like an act of rebellion today, heralding the rise of the next generation of rock music. “Our name rings true to the sound, lyrics, and heavy imagery,” Matty observes. “You started out as dust and, one day, you will become dust again. So, you’re attempting to find meaning in the chaos of life and death, which is what we try to do through music.” Matty and Graham grew up in the small Texas town of Midlothian, which they both agree “sounds like some place in The Lord of The Rings.” They cultivated airtight vocal interplay by performing at countless open mics. Running through acoustic, folk, and rock staples with acoustic guitars, they recognized a natural harmony between them.
During college, a friend introduced them to Los Angeles-based producer Jim Kaufman [Everclear, Danny Worsnop, Night Riots, Helmet]. They blew Kaufman away with a Fleetwood Mac cover, so he urged them to “drop out of school, write ten songs, and come out and record.” They heeded his advice and wound up sharing a one-bedroom apartment in Inglewood, CA together as a band.