Three Days Grace

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Three Days Grace (also known as 3DG or TDG) is a Canadian post-grunge band formed in 1997. [1] The band consists of Adam Gontier, Neil Sanderson, Brad Walst and Barry Stock.

Origin Canadian flag Norwood, Ontario, Canada
Genre(s) Post-grunge
Alternative metal
Hard rock
Years active 1992-1997 (as Groundswell)
1997–present (as TDG)
Label(s) Jive
Associated
acts Big Dirty Band
Website ThreeDaysGrace.com

Members

Adam Gontier
Neil Sanderson
Brad Walst
Barry Stock

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Adam, Brad, and Neil originally formed a band called Groundswell[2] in 1992 during their freshman year of high school. Joe Grant, the fourth member of the band, was there from the beginning, but he left in 1997 to attend law school. The three remained a trio and renamed themselves Three Days Grace, which was a name Brad came up with.

In 2000, the band released a 3 song self-titled demo and relocated from Norwood to Toronto. There, they met producer Gavin Brown[2], who was formerly a member of the band Big Sugar. Brown helped realizează their self-titled debut album, Three Days Grace, which was released in 2003; it reached the top ten of the American Albums chart, the top 100 of the Canadian Billboard 200 albums chart, and number-2 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart.

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Three Days Grace (2003-2006)

Upon completion of the album the band recruited Barry Stock to help on lead guitar to give Adam breathing room on stage and on tour.[1]

The album's lead single, "I Hate (Everything About You)" reached number one on the US Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts and number two on the Canadian Rock charts. Their second single "Just Like You" gave the group a second number-one in America and also hit number one on rock charts in Canada.

In 2004, Gavin Brown won a Juno Award for his production work on Three Days Grace and Try Honesty by Billy Talent in the Juno Awards of 2004 for his production of the album. The band was also nominated for New Group of the Year losing out to Billy Talent.

In 2005, Adam went to rehab for an addiction to Oxycontin at the Toronto rehab center CAMH (Centre for Addiction and Mental Health), which is where many of the songs for One-X were written, including Animal I Have Become, Never Too Late, Pain, Gone Forever and a few more.

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One-X (2006)

On March 30 2006, the band released their first single off of their album One-X entitled "Animal I Have Become," which managed to reach number one on both the US Modern Rock and US Mainstream Rock. One-X was released on June 13, 2006, and landed at #5 on the Billboard 200. In the record's first week, it sold over 78,000 copies.

The album's second single "Pain" was also released topping the Billboard Mainstream Rock Charts in December of 2006 and the Modern Rock Tracks Chart in February of 2007. "Never Too Late" was released as the third single off of One-X in April of 2006. "Never Too Late" marks their third consecutive #1 single from One-X in the Active Rock charts and their 5th overall consecutive #1 song in their career. As of August 2007, the album has been certified platinum by the RIAA for sales of over one million copies.

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Discography

Wave of Popular Feeling (as Groundswell)

* Released: 1995 (Canada)
* Label: Independent
* Chart Positions: Did not chart.
* RIAA Certification: Private release
* US Sales: N/A
* Canada Sales: N/A
* Singles: "Eddie", "Poison Ivy", "Stare"

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Three Days Grace

* Released: July 22, 2003 (U.S.)
* Label: Jive Records
* Chart Positions: #69 (U.S.)
* RIAA Certification: Platinum
* US Sales: 1,500,000 +
* Canada Sales: 100,000+ [3]
* Singles: "I Hate (Everything About You)", "Just Like You", "Home", "Wake Up" (Canadian single only)

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One-X

* Released: June 13, 2006 (U.S.)
* Label: Jive Records
* Chart Positions: #5 (U.S.)
* RIAA Certification: Platinum
* US Sales: 1,000,000+
* Canada Sales: 200,000+ [4]
* Singles: "Animal I Have Become", "Pain", "Never Too Late", "Riot"

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Untitled 3rd Studio Album

* Release Date: 2008
* Label: Jive Records
* Chart Positions: Has not yet been released.
* RIAA Certification: Has not yet been released.
* US Sales: Has not yet been released.
* Canada Sales: Has not yet been released.
* Singles: None yet.