Three Days Grace/Shinedown/POD-Review
by Ryan Edwards
This is like no other show that I have seen before, because I had no idea what to expect, and I’m sure I wasn’t the only one. Weeks before this tour began, Adam Gontier (vocals) resigned from Three Days Grace and was replaced by Matt Walst from My Darkest Days, which dozens of fans were gossiping about at the First Bank Center on Monday night. Despite that, the night started off strong when P.O.D came out, as the majority of the audience was already in the auditorium.
P.O.D is one of those bands that bring me back to high school, especially when they played old songs like “Boom” and “Youth of the Nation” from their album Satellite. The songs had everyone singing word-for-word, and their energy and how they sounded live surpassed my expectations. As the night went on they played many newer songs from their album Murdered Love, which was much harder than their older material. However, it was a good way to set up for Three Days Grace.
When they came out and opened up with “Chalk Outline” and barrels threw flames into the air, they completely got rid of all my worries about how they were going to sound. Afterward, Walst didn’t skip a beat and killed every song, songs like “Home”, “Pain,” “I Hate Everything About You,” “Animal” and “Riot” as their encore. But before they took off, they left everyone flabbergasted with an amazing five-minute drum solo. Sitting back, I had a hard time thinking that Shinedown could top that, but they came pretty damn close, coming out with their own pyrotechnics and cannons that scared the crap out of everyone as they went off.
Shinedown played their laundry list of hits like “Devour,” “Enemies,” “The Crow Chasing Butterflies,” and “Diamond Eyes,” which sounded amazing. Brent Smith (vocals) proved that he has one hell of a voice as he belted to every song and Shinedown showed they can carry a big venue, as they often got the crowd going by getting them to clap and sing to their songs. However, the best song of the night was “Sounds of Madness,” an upbeat catchy song that is all over the radio and set up Shinedown’s last few songs, which were slowed down and acoustic versions of their hit “Second Chance” and their cover of “Simple Man” by Lynyrd Skynyrd in the middle of the crowd. All in all, P.O.D and Shinedown put on amazing shows and my thoughts on Three Days Grace’s performance, if someone wouldn’t have told me they had a different lead singer, personally I wouldn’t have noticed.
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