Concert Review
Three Days Grace
I Prevail
The Funeral Portrait
Tuesday March 3, 2026
PPG Paints Arena
Pittsburgh, PA
Review/Photos: Joseph Suto
Three Days Grace made their first Pittsburgh area appearance in four years Tuesday night. The band is currently out on the road supporting their latest album Alienation which was released last August. That album brought back original vocalist Adam Gontier into the fold and the band kept current vocalist Matt Walst as well thus becoming a duel-vocalist band. Three Days Grace fans could not have asked for more as the band seems stronger than ever as evident by both the album and the recent tours together.
The show got off to a chaotic start with “Dominate” a hard hitter from the aforementioned Alienation. From there the band literally brought the house down with “Animal I Have Become” from mega album One-X. It was just what the doctor ordered as the crowd settled into the show.
The band has had very few changes in its history. Guitarist Barry Stock came aboard in 2003 and other than Gontier leaving and rejoining that is it. Bassist Brad Walst and drummer Neil Sanderson have been there from the start and have maintained a solid rhythm section.
It had been quite some time since the band’s albums were recertified but they were updated in November with the debut now at triple platinum, five times platinum for One-X, Life Starts Now up to four times platinum and Transit of Venus and Human both reaching gold status. Some well deserved honors and it shows more fans are buying the catalog.
The show also featured a short acoustic segment where chairs were brought out and a campfire was set up to emulate what the boys used to do in their hometown of Norwood, Ontario.
The set was mixed up perfectly sprinkling in a few new tracks among some of the classics and standards. Following “Painkiller” the band chose to remain out on stage instead of going off and coming back on for an encore. Gontier mentioned how so many fans bring up how much “Never Too Late” means to them as he introduced it. Closing out the night with “Riot” was just what the doctor ordered and a good way to make sure you didn’t have anyone heading for the exit early to beat the traffic. It may have been a Tuesday but the arena was filled to the brim.
The demand for the band has never been higher. They have already been booked on a number of tours in 2025 and others that go to the end of this year. This is one case where everyone wins. The fans get both vocalists, the band has probably not been as close as they are right now. Having the band perform in the larger arenas and sheds as the main headliner has the band exactly where they should be at this point of their career. I for one cannot wait to see what comes next.
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Set Lists
Three Days Grace
Set 1
Dominate
Animal I Have Become
So Called Life
Break
Home
The Mountain
Pain
Kill Me Fast
I Hate Everything About You
Apologies
Time of Dying
Don’t Wanna Go Home Tonight
Fireside Acoustic
Lost In You
Chalk Outline/Porn Star Dancing/My Sharona
Lifetime
Set 2
Here Without You (snippet for Brad Arnold)
I Am Machine
Just Like You
Mayday
The Good Life
Painkiller
Never Too Late
Riot
I Prevail
NWO
Bow Down
Self-Destruction
There’s Fear in Letting Go
Violent Nature
Into Hell
Bad Things
Sad But True
Rain
God
Hurricane
Gasoline
The Funeral Portrait
Mad World
Generation Psycho
Blood Mother
Voodoo Doll
Holy Water
Stay Weird
Dark Thoughts
Suffocate City
