Sum 41 Says It Will Disband After Ultimate Album and Tour
The band Sum 41 introduced on Monday that it was breaking apart after 27 years, unleashing a nicely of nostalgia for the early 2000s, when pop punk appeared ubiquitous on MTV’s “Total Request Live” and in memorable scenes in blockbuster films.
The Canadian group, fronted by the spiky-haired singer Deryck Whibley, was a part of a pop-punk wave that included Blink-182, Simple Plan, Good Charlotte and Avril Lavigne. Their hits included “Fat Lip” and “In Too Deep,” which followers cherished to belt out of their automobile or soar up and all the way down to at exhibits.
The band’s music was additionally featured in common films from the early 2000s, amongst them “Spider-Man,” “Dude, Where’s My Car?” and “Bring It On.”
In a statement on Twitter, Sum 41 didn’t clarify why it was disbanding. It mentioned it deliberate to complete its tour this 12 months and that it could launch a ultimate album, “Heaven :x: Hell,” and announce a ultimate tour to have a good time the top of its run.
“Being in Sum 41 since 1996 introduced us among the greatest moments of our lives,” the band members wrote. “We are eternally grateful to our followers each previous and new, who’ve supported us in each approach. It is difficult to articulate the love and respect we’ve got for all of you and we wished you to listen to this from us first.”
News of the band’s choice led followers to mourn the top of an period. While many punk followers scorned Sum 41 and different teams prefer it as protected and traditional, pop-punk followers mentioned the music was a part of the soundtrack of their youth.
“Fat Lip” reached No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart after Sum 41’s breakthrough album, “All Killer No Filler,” was launched in 2001. And many years later, followers nonetheless packed Sum 41’s exhibits clad in fishnet stockings or darkish skinny denims and heavy eyeliner, accented with tricolor wrist sweatbands.
“Sum 41 is most undoubtedly on the Mount Rushmore of early 2000s pop punk,” mentioned Finn McKenty, the creator of the YouTube collection “The Punk Rock MBA,” which options an episode on “The Strange History of Sum 41.”
“To be capable of journey the wave of the MTV-type hype that they’d and switch that right into a profession with actual longevity and respect is a uncommon factor that they have been capable of pull off,” Mr. McKenty mentioned.
The band’s music appeared to seize the spirit of suburban teenage excessive jinks.
In an interview with Billboard in 2021, Mr. Whibley mentioned that when the band, which shaped in suburban Toronto in 1996, was attempting to realize discover, its members filmed themselves “doing silly stuff like drive-by water gunning folks, egging homes, and lower it with some movie of our exhibits.”
The band’s supervisor then despatched a three-minute model of the video to document firms.
“And then, it was a matter of weeks,” Mr. Whibley mentioned. “Every label within the U.S. was attempting to signal us, and it become an enormous bidding warfare.”
Mike Damante, the writer of “Hey Suburbia: A Guide to the Emo/Pop-Punk Rise,” mentioned that Sum 41 was one of many first common pop-punk bands to fuse steel and hip-hop and that it was disbanding throughout “a very nostalgic time interval for this time in music.”
In latest years, Sum 41 had toured with Simple Plan and The Offspring.
Mr. McKenty mentioned the band had not too long ago been producing music that was “nearly as good or higher” than its music from the early 2000s.
“I all the time wish to see folks exit on high, moderately than exit unhappy,” he mentioned.