THREE DAYS GRACE Has 'Already Started Getting Ideas Together' For Follow-Up To 'Alienation' Album

In a new interview with the 100.3 The Bear radio station in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, THREE DAYS GRACE vocalist Matt Walst spoke about a possible follow-up to the band's "Alienation" album, which arrived in August 2025 via RCA Records. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "After this month, we're gonna take a couple months off, and then we're back out on the road. But, yeah, we've already started getting ideas together and stuff. And, yeah, we're gonna start writing a new record next year."

"Alienation" marked the return of original THREE DAYS GRACE frontman Adam Gontier, who joined Matt Walst on vocals, along with Neil Sanderson (drums),Brad Walst (bass) and Barry Stock (guitar).

THREE DAYS GRACE played its first full show with Gontier in 12 years on February 25, 2025 as the support act for DISTURBED on the U.S. leg of "The Sickness 25th Anniversary Tour" at Ford Idaho Center Arena in Nampa, Idaho.

Earlier this year, Matt Walst told ABC Audio that the two-singer version of THREE DAYS GRACE "jelled right away" on the live stage.

"It just felt natural from the get-go," Matt said. "When we're singing songs together, it just felt right where I should sing and Adam should sing, and it came together pretty easily."

Gontier told ABC Audio that performing songs from the time he was away from THREE DAYS GRACE is one of his favorite parts of the show.

"All the songs that Matt did and the band did when I was away or when I was gone, they're all great, and the albums are amazing," Gontier said. "I always listened to what these guys did, and there's just so many good songs. To be able to sing them with Matt is awesome. It's a lot of fun."

In April 2023, Gontier reunited with THREE DAYS GRACE onstage during the band's concert in Huntsville, Alabama. Gontier rejoined his then-former bandmates when they opened for SHINEDOWN at the Probst Arena At The Von Braun Center to perform two classic songs from THREE DAYS GRACE's 2006 album "One-X": "Never Too Late" and "Riot".

In 1992, Gontier, Brad Walst, Phil Crowe, Neil Sanderson and Joe Grant formed GROUNDSWELL while most of the members were still in high school. That band broke up in 1995, but two years later Gontier, Sanderson and Walst reformed as THREE DAYS GRACE. Gontier left the band in 2013 and was replaced by Matt, the vocalist from another Norwood band, MY DARKEST DAYS.

Gontier initially went into rehab in 2005 in Toronto after admitting an addiction to Oxycontin. The rehab stint influenced some material which would appear on THREE DAYS GRACE's "One-X" album, including the songs "Pain" and "Over And Over".

Gontier left THREE DAYS GRACE in the spring of 2013. At the time, the Canadian rockers cited unspecified "health issues" when his departure was announced. Adam later released a statement explaining he exited THREE DAYS GRACE to pursue new projects, and not to deal with addiction.