Review 3
Date: Sunday March 1st 2026
Venue: Giant Center
CIty/Town: Hershey PA
Subjects: Three Days Grace, I Prevail, The Funeral Portrait

Three Days Grace are on tour supporting their most recent album “Alienation”. The album is the first to feature both of the bands lead vocalists: Adam Gontier and Matt Walst. More on them later as obviously they are the headliners. One of the most talked about opening acts of any tour especially coming through our area is The Funeral Portrait. The band is on a skyrocket to the moon right now. Rounding out the lineup for the night was I Prevail. The heaviest band of the night.
The show kicked off right on time w/ the haunting sounds of Frank Sinatra’s “Bang Bang”. Out onto the stage walks THE FUNERAL PORTRAIT. Vocalist Lee began the night w/ an acapella short version of “Mad World” by Tears for Fears and then they really kicked the night off with “Generation Psycho”. The band has been grinding for ten years playing clubs and small places up until last year when they really started making noise. They’ve been featured on numerous festivals, as well as a few tours including opening a Stadium tour last year for Five Finger Death Punch. That tour ironically opened up in Hershey and of course the band had been at Lovedrafts a few times so they are a bit of an adopted band in the area.

Lee’s signature Green Mullet banging as the band kept taking center stage member by member to get an up-close look at those in attendance. They had the crowd’s attention as the venue was pretty full rather early as they are a band who has made a name for themselves in these parts. He donned a cowboy hat and encouraged us to be cowboys and cowgirls for the track “Holy Water”. They followed that up with a beautiful rendition of “Stay Weird” a song about being yourself. The closers were a one two punch of “Dark Thoughts” and the one that put em on the map “Suffocate City”. Once again the band left the place wanting more. Funny antidote was Lee tearing up the setlist so as many people as possible could get a piece of it, he was also seen all over the venue throughout the night meeting fans and signing things. That is a major rarity for arena shows.

I Prevail at Giant Center in Hershey.

THREE DAYS GRACE burst onto the scene back in 2003 with their anthem “I Hate Everything About You” a staple on all divorce Spotify playlists. The band released 4 albums under Adam. in 2013 Original Vocalist Adam Gontier left the band, when he went through this history on stage that drew boos from the crowd to which he replied, “I thought I’d just slip that in there and nobody would notice but I always get booed”. This led way for Matt Walst to be brought in as the singer. He had been singing for My Darkest Days and is also brother of guitarist Brad Walst. This formation led to three albums. Now we’ve reached 2026 and Adam has returned, Matt is still in and the band just released their first album with both singers called “Alienation”. This tour is supporting that record and is a celebration of the band’s history.
The band relied heavily on the first four albums as well as the new one, only hitting 5 tracks from the Matt led records in the 24-song set. Opening the show they came right out with the first track off “Alienation” called “Dominate”. From there it was a greatest hits fest most of the night as this band has had so many singles. “Animal I Have Become”, “Break”, “Home” and “The Mountain” were all early tracks before the Middle portion of the set. Hitting the new record as well they played the “Don’t Wanna Go Home Tonight” a track from the new record about growing up in Canada. This led to a set change where they set up a fireplace and other things to set up a outdoor sitting around the campfire feel for a 3-song acoustic set. This included “Get Out Alive”, The tour debut of “Chalk Outline” and “Porn Star Dancing”, the latter was the big hit for Matt’s previous band My Darkest Days. Closing the acoustic portion with “Lifetime”.

The second portion of the set kicked off w/ “Here Without You” a touching rendition and tribute to late three doors down vocalist Eric Arnold. The Heavier “I Am Machine” Old school “Just Like You” and the brand-new single “Mayday” followed up. Sing along tracks “The Good Life” and “Painkiller” closed out the show before the two-song encore. The band was very thankful throughout the night and had the crowd chanting “Three Days Grace” In between nearly every song. The band came out for an encore that included “Never to Late” and the crowd moving “Riot”. To my knowledge no band has done this with the lead singer leaving only to come back and rejoin turning the band into a two-singer band. Certainly, nobody has ever done it better or as successfully. They complement each other very well. Each guy takes the reigns for the tracks they wrote though the Adam songs to feature more of Matt then vice versa. When one sings the other usually has a guitar in hand unless they are splitting vocals. You see them fist bumping throughout the set as they pass each other and thank each other for starting the band or continuing the band.

THE FUNERAL PORTRAIT

Frank Sintra’s “Bang Bang”
01. “Mad World” (Rears for Fears Cover)
(Lee Only)
02. “Generation Psycho”
03. “Blood Mother”
04. “Voodoo Doll”
05. “Holy Water”
06. “Stay Weird”
07. “Dark Thoughts”
08. “Suffocate City”

I PREVAIL

Gorillaz - “Clint Eastwood”
01. “NWO”
02. “Bow Down”
03. “Self Destruction”
04. “There’s Fear in Letting Go”
05. “Violent Nature”
06. “Into Hell”
07. “Bad Things”
08. “Sad But True” (Metallica Cover)
Drum Solo
09. “Rain”
10. “God”
11. “Hurricane”
12. “Gasoline”

The Funeral Portrait Performs at Giant Center

The lights once again dimmed and the Gorillaz “Clint Eastwood” was played over the loudspeakers and one by one the band I PREVAIL took the stage. They absolutely exploded on stage w/ “NWO” , followed up by “Bow Down” and “Self-Destruction”. When I say exploded I Mean with Energy, metal and fire, lots of fire. I have seen them at festivals but this was the first time I have seen them indoors or at night for that matter. Wow. I’m officially a fan. There was great banter between Lead vocalist Eric and guitarist Dylan who took over the vocals when they parted with Brian. There was a few “Bring Back Brian” and “We want Brian” people in the crowd. Back to the banter. Playing word association to no avail as Dylan would simply say outlandish stuff. This led to Word association with the crowd: “If I said Violent”. We knew that meant we should say “Nature” and they broke into “Violent Nature”. The band relied heavily on the most recent album w/ the title track, “Rain”, “Into Hell” and others. More ranting left Dylan to wonder why there is not more Shrek Porn on the internet. A Drum solo led into their heaviest track called “God” which Eric apologized to the drummer for that set list snafu. The closed with the sing along “Hurricane” and then the in your face “Gasoline”. There were. other fun moments like Eric introducing everyone but Dylan and him complaining about it only to be apologized to and told the last song was dedicated to him.

Adam Gontier of Three Days Grace Performs at Giant Center

SET-LISTS
(Provided by Setlist.fm)

THREE DAYS GRACE

01. “Dominate”
02. “Animal I Have Become”
03. “So Called Life”
04. “Break”
05. “Home”
06. “The Mountain”
07. “Pain”
08. “Kill Me Fast”
09. “I Hate Everything About You”
10. “Apologies”
11. “Time of Dying”
12. “Don’t Wanna Go Home Tonight”

ACOUSTIC SET
13. “Get Out Alive”
14. “Chalk Outline”
15. ”Porn Star Dancing”
16. “Lifetime”
SECOND SET
17. “Here Without You” (3 Doors Down Cover)
18. “I Am Machine”
19. “Just Like You”
20. “Mayday”
21. “The Good Life”
22. “Painkiller”
ENCORE:
23. “Never To Late”
24. “Riot”