Life Starts Now

by Three Days Grace

Overview

The third studio album from Canadian arena rockers Three Days Grace treads familiar ground, presenting 12 slabs of the kind of reliable, accessible and serviceable hard rock that will always have an audience. 2006's One-X dealt heavily with vocalist Adam Gontier's personal demons, a theme that continues on Life Starts Now, albeit with a hint of sunlight. With a sound that lands somewhere in between Breaking Benjamin, Collective Soul, and Godsmack, (Gontier sounds like a less volatile Trent Reznor) Life Starts Now treats the well-worn metal themes of anger, isolation, heartache, and redemption with the kind of begrudging respect they deserve, pumping out a competent flurry of fist-bump anthems ("Break," "Bully") and world-weary, midtempo rockers ("World So Cold," "Last to Know" that are so painfully earnest that one can almost hear director Michael Bay pitching them to the studio for inclusion on the soundtracks for his next ten Transformers sequels. ~ James Christopher Monger

Product Details

Release Date:	09/22/2009
Label:	Jive
UPC:	0886974625629
Rank:	22119

Tracks

1. Bitter Taste
2. Break
3. World So Cold
4. Lost in You
5. The Good Life
6. No More
7. Last to Know
8. Someone Who Cares
9. Bully
10. Without You
11. Goin' Down
12. Life Starts Now

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Three Days Grace   Primary Artist
Howard Benson   Keyboards
Barry Stock   Guitar
Brad Walst   Bass
Neil Sanderson   Drums,Piano,Vocals
Adam Gontier   Guitar,Vocals

Technical Credits

Jackie Murphy   Art Direction
Mike Plotnikoff   Engineer
Three Days Grace   Composer
Mike Cashin   Assistant Engineer
Hatsukazu "Hatch" Inagaki   Engineer
Chris Lord-Alge   Mixing
Paul DeCarli   Digital Editing
Howard Benson   Producer,Programming
Jon Nicholson   Drum Technician
Barry Stock   Group Member
Nik Karpen   Assistant Engineer
Andrew Schubert   Engineer
Chris Feldmann   Design
Brad Walst   Group Member
Neil Sanderson   Group Member
Brad Townsend   Engineer
Marc VanGool   Guitar Technician
Adam Gontier   Group Member
Chris Feldman   Art Direction
Ted Jensen   Mastering
Danny Clinch   Photography