THREE DAYS GRACE SINGER BECOMING LESS ANIMAL

Three Days Grace will finish out its tour this weekend, but it was a hometown clinic that meant the most.

Three Days Grace will wind down its tour this weekend, but a highlight from this round of dates has been the visits to addiction centers in each city. Singer Adam Gontier checked himself into a facility after the album-tour cycle that preceded their latest album One-X. Gontier checked himself into the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in his hometown of Toronto. He made a triumphant return there on November 29 to play the intimate show for its patients.

Gontier said that he was working on the album when he was seeking treatment, and he hints that “Animal I Have Become” is more autobiographical than people first realized.

“I think ‘Animal I Have Become’ is actually asking for help. In the chorus line, it’s ‘somebody help me tame this animal I have become,’ and that’s what it’s about. It’s about help.”

Gontier was then asked if there was one moment when he realized he had a problem.

“I don’t think there was any one [situation]. I think it was an accumulation for being on the road so long that once you…. You get into into the mindset and you get into the lifestyle where you’re constantly putting on a show every day for people who don’t know and everybody knows you, but they’re actually people you don’t really know. You don’t realize it until you get home and you get done and you start to realize what the reality is. It’s a different thing. Not any one time in paticular. It was just an accumulation of being on the road so long.”

Three Days Grace will be home for the holidays, and it should give them time to soak up their latest accomplishment. The band’s “Animal I Have Become” took home Rock Song of The Year honors at this year’s Billboard Awards, held earlier this month in Las Vegas.