“It’s great to be able to take a couple weeks and reflect on the songs instead of going in and hammering it out in a month or something. “We kind of come and go as we please,” Walst says. Walst says TDG has been recording in Toronto during breaks from tour, although the group will be on the road in North America through August, with September shows in the U.K. It was actually the first song we wrote with Matt, which was crazy, but it turned out awesome.

We listened to it and were like, ‘Man, that would be a great Three Days Grace song.’ So we just started jamming on it and it became what it is now. “I think he had almost half that chorus written. “Matt actually brought that title to the table, just a few days after he joined,” Walst says. Fans have already gotten a taste of the group’s direction with Matt Walst - who joined after founding frontman Adam Gontier “blindsided” TDG with a sudden departure in January of 2013 - via “Painkiller,” which came out in April and became the group’s 12th No.

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