Three Days Grace Life Starts Now

Three Days Grace Life Starts NowThe third studio album from Canadian arena rockers Three Days Grace treads familiar ground, presenting 12 slabs of the kind of reliable, accessible, and serviceable hard rock that will always have an audience. 2006's ONE X dealt heavily with vocalist Adam Gontier's personal demons, a theme that continues on LIFE STARTS NOW, albeit with a hint of sunlight. With a sound that lands somewhere in between Breaking Benjamin, Collective Soul, and Godsmack

or perhaps it's due to Kiedis having purportedly gone through a painful break-up

The seven song disc features the six original 2016 tracks as well as “The 2nd Most Beautiful Girl In The World

" Built on a picked (and heavily echoed) guitar line and a rolling drum pattern

1977's Leave Home was in many respects a continuation of the sound and attitude of the first album

Re-released in a live version only months later

where Silence Yourself's ferocity sometimes felt like a barrier

they're all built on the same layers of analogue synthesizers and futuristic

while also remaining loyal to the San Francisco-based trio's progressive sociopolitical outlook

Occasional surprises

is amply represented by seven songs

Kaidi has delivered us thirteen tracks that deftly illustrate his various talents as a multi-instrumentalist

" and a couple fun rockers like "Got Lot on My Head" and "You Can't Hold on for Too Long