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THREE DAYS GRACE – BIRMINGHAM O2 ACADEMY, 19.09.22
“Get the moshpit going! Get the fuck up!” orders Matt Walst, frontman joined by his brother Brad Walst, who pounds away on the bass guitar,
of Three Days Grace, when the Canadian four-piece take to Birmingham’s the mysterious Barry Stock on guitar, and Neil Sanderson at the back, up
O2 Academy stage. It’s an order you don’t want to dismiss, and Three on a very high drum riser.
Days Grace are not going to let you anyway. Opening with ‘So Called Life’ Matt makes ‘Animal I Have Become’, originally released in 2006, from
from their new album ‘Explosions’, the powerful, riff-heavy tune incites the band’s second album ‘One-X’, his own. Stalking the stage and jumping
motion from the get-go. up onto risers either side of the stage, he has indeed turned into an ani-
It's good to have the quartet back in the UK again (they were last in mal. The skulking backbeat is addictive, while the vibrant chorus is one
Birmingham in 2018), and tonight’s show sees the band sounding and you won’t forget. That said, a couple of days after the show, it’s sixth song
performing better than ever. It’s been ten years since Matt joined the band, in, ‘The Mountain’, which is still running around our head. The formidable
as he tells the crowd before ‘Painkiller’. He was welcomed into the band ‘I Am The Weapon’, is played live for the first time and is another worth its
back then, but now he leads the unit like a founding member. You can see weight in gold; it’s in your face and intimidating.
the hunger and conviction in his eyes as he commands the stage. He’s

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