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How do you handle the lead vocals live? Does Adam sing lead on material from the first four albums with Matt taking the lead on the rest? <\/b><\/p>\n
Matt Walst: <\/b>We switch it up. Sometimes I\u2019ll take lead on a few verses and choruses of old songs, and then with the newer songs that I sang on, Adam does the same. We trade [lead vocals] back and forth. I\u2019ll do harmonies and play rhythm guitar on the older songs. It\u2019s all over the place. We switch it up as much as we can to keep it interesting. And you can tell by the fans\u2019 reaction that they love hearing Adam\u2019s voice on \u201cI Am Machine\u201d or \u201cPainkiller\u201d [both from 2014\u2019s Human<\/i>] or \u201cThe Mountain\u201d [from 2018\u2019s Outsider<\/i>]. We\u2019re making it fun.<\/p>\n
The band has released two new tracks, \u201cMayday\u201d and \u201cApologies,\u201d both of which are on the new album released in August. \u201cMayday\u201d shot to the #1 spot of <\/b>Billboard<\/b><\/i>\u2019s Mainstream Rock singles chart. The opening riff of \u201cMayday\u201d is very reminiscent of \u201cAnimal I Have Come,\u201d one of Three Days Grace\u2019s breakthrough hits from 2006. Is that similarity a coincidence or intentional?<\/b><\/p>\n
Adam Gontier:<\/b> I think it\u2019s a little bit of both. We\u2019re super aware that it has a similar riff to \u201cAnimal I Have Become.\u201d And it\u2019s a little bit of a tip of the cap to the old stuff.<\/p>\n
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The second new single, \u201cApologies\u201d made it to Number 6. Taken together, those two songs are the debut of the new lineup featuring both of you, so they could be thought of as a peek at the band\u2019s future. The vocal on \u201cApologies\u201d has a fair amount of vocal processing on it, giving the song a pop feel; that\u2019s something we haven\u2019t really heard on past Three Days Grace tracks. Were you at all reluctant to move in that pop direction? <\/b><\/p>\n
Matt Walst: <\/b>The producers we worked with are Zakk Cervini and Dan Lancaster. Dan Lancaster produced that song; he\u2019s a pretty pop-orientated producer, but he\u2019s also heavy at the same time. The Vocoder-type effects\u2026 I feel like he\u2019s a little bit more that way, and so that\u2019s how that song turned out.<\/p>\n
Adam Gontier:<\/b> The band evolves, too. We definitely want to stay true to who we were and who we are, and we do that. But at the same time, you want to move forward a little bit and try different things; otherwise you\u2019re just sitting in one spot, spinning your wheels. So it\u2019s nice to have different vibes on certain songs.<\/p>\n
What can you share about <\/b>Alienation<\/b><\/i>, set for release in August? <\/b>
\nAdam Gontier:<\/b> \u201cMayday\u201d and \u201cApologies\u201d are the first two songs, and they\u2019re the only two songs that anybody\u2019s heard yet. I can tell you that the rest of the record has got a lot of heavy stuff and a lot of really cool things, too. It\u2019s all over the place; it\u2019s nice for us to be able to mix it up.<\/p>\n
Matt Walst: <\/b>Yeah, it\u2019s pretty diverse. There are some super heavy songs, some lighter ones and some in the middle. We like to spread it out and not just be heavy the whole time. It\u2019s like with our [live] show: we try to be dynamic with it. Because if it\u2019s full-out the whole time, that kind of gets boring. So it\u2019s nice to make an album that has different flavors on it.<\/p>\n
In the live shows on this tour, are you both playing guitars? With lead guitarist Barry Stock, that would mean three guitarists onstage all at once\u2026 <\/b><\/p>\n
Adam Gontier:<\/b> Matt will play during a few of the older songs that I sang on, and I play guitar on a couple of the songs that Matt doesn\u2019t play on. So there\u2019s never three guitars. For a lot of the show, there\u2019s just Barry [on guitar].<\/p>\n
So you\u2019re not going to turn into Lynyrd Skynyrd\u2026 <\/b><\/p>\n
Adam Gontier:<\/b> Not anytime soon, I don\u2019t think!<\/p>\n
What can people expect on this tour? <\/b><\/p>\n
Adam Gontier: <\/b>Like Matt was saying, we\u2019re fortunate that we have a whole bunch of songs to choose from. We try to get in as many songs as we can that people know and love. But it\u2019s also cool that we\u2019re able to take some B-sides \u2013 and some songs that weren\u2019t necessarily singles \u2013 and put them in the set as well. It\u2019s a high energy show like it\u2019s always been; we give it everything we\u2019ve got when we\u2019re up there. We\u2019re doing a Canadian tour now; it\u2019s been a lot of fun. And then we\u2019ll be out on a co-headline with Breaking Benjamin in the fall.<\/p>\n
Your tour routes through the U.S. from mid-July to mid-October. With all that\u2019s going on politically between the U.S. and Canadian governments, do you have any concerns about the rules changing up so that some of the band can\u2019t come here? <\/b><\/p>\n
Matt Walst: <\/b>Oh, God, no. Nothing\u2019s changed.<\/p>\n
Adam Gontier: <\/b>No, not yet. I live in Nashville now, and Barry lives in Kentucky, so we\u2019re okay. I\u2019m pretty sure that the rest of the guys will be allowed in with no problem. I hope so, anyway.
\nAfter the North American dates, you\u2019re headed over to Europe, right?<\/b><\/p>\n
Adam Gontier: <\/b>That\u2019s right. We\u2019ll be over there in November for about a month. We\u2019re looking forward to it. It\u2019s going to be a busy year. We\u2019re excited to get out there and get the show on the road.<\/p>\n
Some bands tour, and then when they come off the road, they go home and write songs. Other bands write all the time, and might even \u201cfield test\u201d new material on the tour. Are you already writing for the next album, or are you focused completely on the here and now? <\/b><\/p>\n
Matt Walst:<\/b> We never stop writing and being creative, so that never stops. We have a few ideas kicking around, but right now we\u2019re out here rocking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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