Three Days Grace at Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre

Since 2003, Three Days Grace has staked a spot amongst the hard rock vanguard, breaking records, toppling charts, and moving millions of units worldwide. Overall the band has nineteen #1 records at Mediabase Active Rock and seventeen #1s at Billboard/BDS Active Rock. The band has been nominated multiple times for “Best Rock Album” at the Juno Awards in addition to multiple nominations for “Rock Song of the Year” and “Rock Artist of the Year” at iHeartRadio Music Awards. Moreover, the band consistently averaged a staggering 13 million monthly listeners on Spotify—remaining one of the most listened to rock bands in the world. With over 5 Billion combined streams, top tracks include hard rock anthems “I Hate Everything About You”, “Riot”, “Time of Dying”, among others. To date, their veritable arsenal of number one includes “Home”, “Just Like You”, “Pain”, “Animal I Have Become”, “Never Too Late”, “Break”, “Good Life”, “World So Cold”, “Misery Loves My Company”, “The High Road”, “Chalk Outline”, “I am Machine, “Painkiller”, “The Mountain”, “Infra-Red”, “Right Left Wrong”, “So Called Life”, “Lifetime” & “Mayday.” Three Days Grace is Adam Gontier (vocals), Matt Walst (vocals), Barry Stock (guitar), Brad Walst (bass, backing vocals), and Neil Sanderson (drums, keyboards, backing vocals).

I Prevail is an uncompromising American post-hardcore band from Michigan, known for infusing metalcore with elements of pop-punk and electronics. The group emerged in 2013 and achieved success the following year with a platinum-certified cover of Taylor Swift‘s “Blank Space.” They earned a pair of Grammy nominations in 2019 for their chart-topping sophomore full-length, Trauma, which they followed a year later with the companion live album, Post Traumatic. I Prevail returned in 2022 with True Power, which incorporated electronic, pop, and hip-hop elements into their sonic attack. In 2025, they unveiled the aptly named Violent Nature, a self-produced record that showcased a darker, more aggressive sound.

Based out of Southfield, Michigan, I Prevail formed in 2013 around the talents of Brian Burkheiser (vocals), Eric Vanlerberghe (vocals), Steve Menoian (guitar), Jordan Berger (guitar), and Lee Runestad (drums). Employing a blistering blend of metalcore, pop-punk, and post-hardcore that invokes names like Bring Me the Horizon, We Came as Romans, and A Day to Remember, the band issued their debut EP Heart vs. Mind through Fearless Records in December 2014. A hard-hitting cover of Taylor Swift‘s “Blank Space,” which elicited over two million views on YouTube, helped further establish the band as a rising force within the hardcore scene. They later proved their original songwriting capability with the release of their 2016 debut album, Lifelines. Featuring a re-tooled lineup that consisted of Burkheiser, Vanlerberghe, Menoian, and new guitarist Dylan Bowman, the LP debuted at number one on the Billboard alternative, hard music, and rock charts. The following year, the group parted ways with Runestad and bassist Tony Camposeo, recruiting replacements Gabe Helguera and Eli Clark. They got to work on their follow-up album while touring with the Word Alive, We Came as Romans, and Escape the Fate.

In 2019, the band returned with sophomore effort Trauma, which included the singles “Bow Down” and “Breaking Down.” At the end of the year, they received a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album and “Bow Down” entered the fray, competing for Best Metal Performance. The following year saw the band release a stripped-down acoustic version of the moody Trauma single “Hurricane.” After “DOA,” a collaborative single with rapper Joyner Lucas, I Prevail issued a live version of their previous album under the title Post Traumatic, recorded around the world in 2019 and 2020. In 2022, they released their third LP, True Power, which continued to push their genre experimentation in fresh directions, incorporating cinematic electronic production, rap verses, and even shimmering pop ballads. Vocalist and founding member Brian Burkheiser left the fold in early 2025 due to health reasons, leaving Eric Vanlerberghe to handle both clean and unclean vocals. Bolstered by the potent singles “Rain,” “Into Hell,” and the unrelenting title cut, I Prevail’s potent and self-produced fourth long-player, Violent Nature, appeared later that year.

Atlanta-born rock group the Funeral Portrait’s music recalls a wave of 2000s post-hardcore acts from My Chemical Romance to the Used, with an on-stage theatricality and heaviness that recall Ghost or Ice Nine Kills. Beyond the rock chart hits from their 2024 breakthrough Greetings from Suffocate City, including “Suffocate City” and “Holy Water,” the group has also courted attention with their LGBTQ+ positive messaging, defying conservative critics (and even would-be fans) with on-stage kissing between the all-male members of the group.

The five-piece band — frontman Lee Jennings, guitarists Cody Weissinger and Caleb Freihaut, bassist Robert Weston, and drummer Homer Umbanhower — had previously played under the name Cosmoscope, recording the album Hero or Menace and a pop-punk cover of *NSYNC’s “It’s Gonna Be Me” in 2013. A year later, as the Funeral Portrait, the group began working toward the sound and aesthetic they’d become known for, with early works like the 2014 EP For the Dearly Departed and the full-length debut A Moment of Silence (2016) offering MCR-style conceptual ruminations on grief and the afterlife.

Despite their moderate popularity on the local scene, frontman Jennings later confessed he wasn’t sure that the Funeral Portrait was what he wanted to pursue as his main musical project, even as they issued a small string of tracks through 2019. Testimonials from fans convinced them not only to stick together, but to amp up the qualities that made them most unique. By the time they re-emerged in 2022, they were pulling out all the stops: fans were collectively known as the “Coffin Crew”; concerts became “Devotion Ceremonies”; and the EP Dark Delights introduced a series of on-stage characters known as “Icons.” Bolstered by the new image and another popular EP, 2023’s Sounds from Beyond the Abyss, Vol. 1 — which combined the 2022 single “Voodoo Doll” with covers of Tears for Fears‘ “Mad World” and Radiohead‘s “Creep” — it wasn’t long before more than fans started to take notice. The Funeral Portrait were asked to open for acts like Shinedown, Ice Nine Kills, Five Finger Death Punch, and Marilyn Manson.

By this point, fans were well aware of an on-stage ritual simply known as “the kiss,” where Weston and Freiheit would show affection for each other. The band has since spoken out in strong support of the queer community, even printing up shirts reading “I Love When Emo Boys Kiss” and selling them through the pop culture mall destination Hot Topic. All this activity set the stage for their next studio album, 2024’s Greetings from Suffocate City, which featured guest vocals from Spencer Charnas of Ice Nine Kills to Bert McCracken of the Used. The title track topped Billboard’s mainstream rock chart, and a remix of “Holy Water,” featuring Five Finger Death Punch frontman Ivan Moody, reached the Top Five of the same survey. The Funeral Portrait reissued Suffocate City in the summer of 2025 with new material and songs from earlier EPs.