Hate Life? Join the Club

By Michael Gallucci on Wed, Sep 6, 2006 at 4:00 am

Cleveland theater

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Over sludgy riffs and muddy vocals, the alt-rock band Three Days Grace bemoans pretty much every aspect of modern life. Love, isolation, detachment — they're all really big Issues in the hands of the Toronto foursome, which piles on the guitars and anguish with equal aplomb. Its second album, One-X, is even more supercharged than the band's self-titled 2003 debut. "Somebody help me tame this animal," singer Adam Gontier pleads over a wall of crunch on "Animal I Have Become," One-X's huge radio hit. It's typical of the band's unbridled appeal.
Fri., Sept. 8, 8 p.m.