Life Starts Now is the third studio album by Canadian rock band Three Days Grace.

After being on the road for five years with Three Days Grace, the bass guitarist, Brad Walst, said, "We all came home and got a hard dose of life," which the band then used to create a more "musically in-depth and personal album".

The cover features two masked men smashing a pile of televisions as winged creatures rise from the destruction, which the group felt "was a good reflection of the album's themes.

"[17] Stock stated they wanted "more 'Zeppeliny' bigness in a different kind of way," focusing on tone and raw sound.

"[18] Lyrically, the band wrote the album after looking at life differently from experiencing an "awful lot in our personal lives.

[20][21] With the exception of "Lost in You", all of the band's singles from the album topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart.

The AllMusic reviewer, James Christopher Monger, who gave the album three out of five stars, wrote, "Life Starts Now continues the theme of One-X, Gontier's personal demons, but with a hint of sunlight."

He complimented the album, writing that it "treats the well-worn metal themes of anger, isolation, heartache, and redemption with the kind of begrudging respect they deserve, pumping out a competent flurry of fist-bump anthems and world-weary, mid-tempo rockers".

Frontman Adam Gontier continues to expose his tortured soul, but without consistently gripping tunes to back up his anguish, Three Days Grace seem stuck in their misery rather than transcending it.

"[24] Ben Rayner of the Toronto Star also gave the album a negative review, stating it possesses "no sound of its own, just a shallow range between Linkin Park and Nickelback.