Disturbed and current tour opener Three Days Grace complement each other well, both having expanded upon the post-millennial alt-metal playbook drafted by hard-grooving, chord-crunching bands such as Pantera, with Disturbed’s roots stretching further back to classic metal bands such as Black Sabbath and Judas Priest. Three Days Grace’s sound leans more towards post-grunge, but the Canadian band perhaps wrote and recorded the most Pantera-esque homage of the two acts with 2009’s “The Good Life.” Disturbed’s live cover of “Walk” is welcome in a world without late siblings and Pantera founders Vinnie Paul and Darrell “Dimebag” Abbott.
Audiences in Las Vegas on Jan. 12 are more likely to hear Genesis’ “Land of Confusion” from Disturbed in Las Vegas, along with a rendition of Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence.” The latter is included on the Chicago quartet’s latest album Evolution, which cracked the Top 5 in October following five consecutive albums that debuted at No. 1. Three Days Grace’s cover of Phantogram’s “You Don’t Get Me High Anymore” was released as a single a year and a half before Three Days Grace’s latest album Outsider came out in March, but is a good indication of the range of tastes that inform the band’s material five years into adding singer Matt Walst.
T-Mobile Arena, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 12, starting at $75 plus tax and fee. 888.929.7849 AXS
