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Three Days Grace: Lifetime

A powerful rock ballad featuring intense vocals and poignant lyrics.

Three Days Grace: Lifetime

By Kerry Doole

Three Days Grace - Lifetime (RCA Records): On May 6, the multi-platinum hard rock band releases a seventh studio album, Explosions, preceded by this new single and video.


The clip has real resonance for the group, as it was filmed in the town of Mayfield, KY, the home area of TDG guitarist Barry Stock. The town was devastated last Dec., as a violent tornado ripped through it, and the video is designed to raise awareness and funds to help it rebuild. Three Days Grace has partnered with PLUS1 so that $1 of every tour ticket will go to support tornado recovery efforts.

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In a press release, the band shared this about the song and video: “Lifetime is about loss. It also speaks to the human condition to push forward and put one foot in front of the other even when you wake up and your world is turned upside down. The Mayfield community has shown hope and resilience in the face of unimaginable devastation. When we discussed how we wanted to visually portray this song the story of Mayfield immediately came up. We travelled down to Kentucky from Toronto in March. To see it all with our own eyes and to meet some of the families while overwhelming at times, was also a reminder to us and hopefully to all of you that while there is suffering there is also hope, resilience and strength around every corner all over the world.”

The song itself can be termed a power ballad, with an emphasis on power. Matt Walst's full-blooded voice shines as it evokes a tale of personal loss - "you were the one I wasn't supposed  to lose, I thought I'd have you for a lifetime." Gripping stuff.

Three Days Grace has been one of Canada's top-selling rock bands over the past two decades, amassing chart records along the way.  In 2012, Transit of Venus soared to the Top 5 of the US Top 200 and garnered a nod for Best Rock Album of the Year at the Juno Awards. In 2015, Human marked the group’s second straight #1 slot on the Billboard Top Hard Rock Albums Chart as well as their fourth consecutive debut in the Top 20 of the Top 200. It spawned two #1 singles, Painkiller and I Am Machine, signalling their 13th overall and 5th consecutive number one on the U.S. Active Rock Radio chart.

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The album One-X [2006] notched an RIAA triple-platinum certification, Three Days Grace [2003] was minted platinum and Life Starts Now went gold. The quartet consistently averages an impressive 3.9 million monthly listeners on Spotify.

Earlier this week, TDG announced a headlining tour of the US and Canada. Special guests on select Canadian dates are The Warning & The Standstills. The Canadian dates run from Nov. 11-23. Tickets for the dates and VIP packages will be available here starting today (April 14) for Canada.

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Publicity: Sylvain Morency, Sony Music

Management: Cliff Burnstein & Peter Mensch, Q Prime

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Tré Cool, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Mike Dirnt of Green Day attend the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California on April 01, 2024.
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Tré Cool, Billie Joe Armstrong, and Mike Dirnt of Green Day attend the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California on April 01, 2024.

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Green Day Celebrate ‘Dookie’ Going Double-Diamond: ‘Thank You To Everyone Who Has Loved This Album’

The pop-punk trio's breakthrough 1994 album is just the 13th ever to be RIAA certified with more than 20 million units sold in the U.S.

Welcome to history, Green Day. The pop-punk trio celebrated a major career milestone this week when their breakthrough third studio album, 1994’s Dookie, was certified double-diamond. With that honorific, the group’s major label became just the 13th album ever to be RIAA certified for sales of more than 20 million units in the U.S., joining such iconic LPs as Michael Jackson’s Thriller, AC/DC’s Back in Black, Led Zeppelin IV, The Beatles, Pink Floyd’s The Wall and Shania Twain’s Come On Over, among others.

The group were presented with the award by label Warner Records and their team at Crush mgmt at their sold-out show at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, CA last Saturday. In an Instagram post earlier this week, singer Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist Mike Dirnt and drummer Tré Cool proudly showed off their Diamond awards backstage at Sofi and thanked their die-hards for helping them make history.

This article was originally published by Billboard U.S.

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