“I knew I couldn’t take a ‘56 Junior and butcher the nut to put on the super fat strings that I would need for these low tunings”: Why Three Days Grace’s Barry Stock is embracing the Ibanez Iceman – and picking his trusty Quad Cortex over a 7-string

Barry Stock of Three Days Grace performs at Circolo Magnolia on June 21, 2023 in Milan, Italy.

Canadian hard rockers Three Days Grace are, quite literally, bigger than ever before.

A lot of this comes down to how the Norwood, Ontario-formed outfit’s eighth and latest album, Alienation, reintroduces founding guitarist-vocalist Adam Gontier – writer of the band’s brawny, brooding, and ever-enduring I Hate Everything About You single from the early ‘00s.