Three Days Grace — Three Days Grace

There’s a lot of pain and shame on the self-titled debut from backwoods Ontario trio Three Days Grace. Opener "Burn" begins with promising rhythmic riffage, if only for its obvious debt to early Rage Against The Machine. From there on in, things head south with a series of gloomy, derivative hard rock numbers that ultimately coalesce into an ungodly amalgam of guitar slop, radio-friendly verse-chorus-verse arrangements and lead singer Adam Gontier’s angst-ridden laments. It’s hard not to empathize with Gontier on "Take Me Under" when he pleads "Take me away." Someone please do what the man says. Now. Andy Lee

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