To counter this, broader influences are brought in, both musically and lyrically, and, as if the band was already conscious of this gradually lagging momentum, went on to name the record after an event signifying the importance of a journey the 2012 transit of Venus. By Transit of Venus, the fourth entry into Three Days Grace's career, it's clear that some of that energy is starting to wane, with Gontier showing some strain throughout the album. Becoming one of radio rocks most recognisable vocalists, through the success of Three Days Grace and One-X in the mid 2000s, his signature vocals in popular tracks such as 'Animal I Have Become' and 'I Hate Everything About You' have always been renowned for the raw aggression and emotion drawn from Gontier's performance, feeding off his inner demons to fuel the fire.

The thing about Transit of Venus is that its best quality, and also biggest hindrance, is that you can tell Gontier is really trying here. That's not to say Walst is a terrible vocalist, but considering how irrelevant Three Days Grace have become, it just couldn't be more ironic that his first words on Human are 'I don't belong here.'Īs opposed to this, It seems strange that the final chapter in Gontier's tenure, Transit of Venus, saw him deliver an almost self-fulfilling prophecy for the bitter years to come, in album opener 'Sign of the Times' Human was a gigantic, overproduced, generic mess the instrumentals sound bored, and while Walst has done all he can to emulate the coarse, searing vocals of Gontier, it simply wasn't meant to be. There's just no passion in any of it anymore. With the sudden departure of original vocalist Adam Gontier, back in 2012, an underwhelming Matt Walst led fifth album, and the recent Saint Asonia record that proved to be a hit or miss return to the music scene for Gontier, it's pretty safe to say that it really sucks to be a Three Days Grace fan right now. It's kinda hard to talk about Three Days Grace these days without mentioning what's happened to them the last couple of years. Review Summary: This was a sign of the times.

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