Sum 41 is calling it quits
Lyrics of their most famous song aside, the pop-punk group is finally goin' under (after one last album and a few more tour dates)
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Sum 41, the pop-punk band responsible for feel-good movie soundtrack staple “In Too Deep,” is disbanding. The group announced the decision today via a joint statement posted across Sum 41's official social media accounts.
“Sum 41 will be disbanding,” the statement reads. “We will still be finishing all of our current upcoming tour dates this year, and we’re looking forward to releasing our final album Heaven :x: Hell, along with a final worldwide headlining tour to celebrate. Details will be announced as soon as we have them.” The group’s remaining tour dates—many of which are in support of The Offspring—run through September 3 of this year.
Founded in 1996 in Ontario by guitarist Deryck Whibley, drummer Steve Jocz, bassist Richard Roy, and vocalist Jon Marshall, Sum 41 first blew up in 2001, when their track “Fat Lip” made its way to MTV’s once ubiquitous Total Request Live and ultimately ended up at the top of Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart. The band went on to release seven studio albums over its 27-year run, most recently 2019's Order In Decline.
These days, Whibley is the only remaining original member of the group, now rounded out by guitarists Dave Baksh and Tom Thacker, bassist Jason McCaslin, and drummer Frank Zummo. Back in 2022, Whibley sold his recording and publishing catalog to HarbourView Equity Partners.
Read Sum 41's full statement below:
Being in Sum 41 since 1996 brought us some of the best moments of our lives. We are forever grateful to our fans both old and new, who have supported us in every way. It is hard to articulate the love and respect we have for all of you and we wanted you to hear this from us first.
Sum 41 will be disbanding. We will still be finishing all of our current upcoming tour dates this year, and we’re looking forward to releasing our final album “Heaven :x: Hell,” along with a final worldwide headlining tour to celebrate. Details will be announced as soon as we have them.
For now, we look forward to seeing all of you skumfuks on the road and are excited for what the future will bring to each of us.
Thank you for the last 27 years of Sum 41.
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This is turning into quite the summer for farewell tours.
That reminds me, I need to take Advil for my back.
They’re not very old, they were like teenagers when they made it big, but I guess there isn’t really a market for pop-punk anymore. Note: In Too Deep came out a week before 9/11. Lots of people were listening to it for the first time that day, for sure.
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Sum (not-so) Yun Guys?
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“Lots of people were listening to it for the first time that day, for sure.”
Definitely, as famously we know that all TV and radio broadcasts just kept with their normal programming, they didn’t cut away to talk about that thing with the planes. They just kept playing Sum 41.
There’s a huge market for pop-punk right now but, ironically, Sum 41 hasn’t been purely “pop punk” in well over a decade. They can still shred though. I’ll have to catch the farewell tour!
They never really were. Derrick always wanted more pop-punk sound but Steve Jocz and Dave Bakesh were far more into metal/hair-metal/etc so thats the undertone you hear in most of their albums.
I’ll never forget.
There isn’t a market for any rock or decent music anymore because the industry is full of crooks and shoddy business that make sure they get all the money instead of the artists lol . Gone are the days of real talent and not sampled from someone with talent. Farewell SUM 41 the days of Genuine Musical Talent are gone.
Turn off the fucking radio if you want to find real talent. It’s out there.
It has been kinda weird watching bands from my teen/college days retire before some of the bands from my dad’s teen/college days. Maybe the 90s/00s paid better.
Pop punk/emo/etc….basically “scene” music is making a very big comeback right now. I see teenagers dressing like scene kids again, its weird but kind of cool at the same time.Some of the music has mashed with other genres, there is a whole sub-genre of emo/rap.As for 9/11, know what song really exploded after that day? “The middle” by Jimmy Eat World. They never reached those heights again but that chorus was exactly what everyone wanted.
I (thankfully) don’t really encounter any teens in my life so that is news to me. Pop punk was up my alley when I was high school, hope those bands make some $$ off a resurgance.
Oh no!
This reminds me when Mick Hucknail called it quits for Simply Red. Dude, it’s only you! LOL And just like Mick, Whibley will be back with new session players.
It definitely comes off as if Whibley is using the royal we in that statement since he’s the only member who’s been in the band since 1996. But to be fair, two of the current members have been in the band since the late ‘90s, as long as most of us have known that Sum 41 existed. So a bit more than session players.
Yeah, that whole line about him being the only original member is technically true, but it’s not a like anyone knows who the the original members are. There is currently only one guy who was part of the “All Killer, No Filler” line up that isn’t an active part of the band. It’s a far cry from basically every Motown band touring now with one original dude and three of his nephews or whatever collections of people the Beach Boys and Lynyrd Skynyrd have been touring with for the last 20 years.
Sum 41 have no original members, like Derek Wibley has no orginal kidneys. Get it, cause he was a severe alcoholic and had renal failure?
What, no Cone?
Damn, your ChatGPT columnists need a tune up. “Lyrics of their most famous song song aside” song song- as opposed to a non-song song.
Or a non-song non-song. Which I think is a song?
Song (Non Song)
everybody caulk the dinosaur
As yes, the typo, something that machines do all the time but humans famously do not.
“Song Song” is Talk Talk’s biggest hit…
*The The punch through straw boaters*
Written in a New York maximum security prison, no less.
For all my fellow fifty-somethings: this is a different band than Level 42.
Section 8.
okay
Dammit I have that gif copied and ready to paste. If ever there was a time and place…
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a cafe in madrid.
I always got them confused with Blink 182. I just asked google to play a Sum 41 song and it put on a spotify playlist where the first song it played was The Rock Show by Blink 182.
Back in 2022, Whibley sold his recording and publishing catalog to HarbourView Equity Partners.
“HarbourView Equity Partners” would be an amazing name for a punk band
They could open for Sunny Day Real Estate.
Stfu
“Founded in 1996 in Ontario.”Ahem. Ajax, Ontario, please. Show some respect for a town I hate with every fibre of my being. Also, Ontario is a big place. It’s like saying the Goo Goo Dolls and the Velvet Underground were both formed in New York.
Everyone knows Dave Baksh (Brownsound) was a founding member of the band. Everyone!
I have never heard of vocalist Jon Marshall and I always thought Dave Baksh was in the band from the beginning.
Dude got to bang Avril Lavigne on the regs before the Nickleback guy and whoever else. That’s Sum-thing.
Dave and Jason are pretty much the original members, given they weren’t doing much in those first years before All Killer No Filler came out, and are with them now (Jason in particular has been there pretty much the whole time), so they’re almost the full original band outside of the drummer, plus an extra guitarist.
Finally.
Our national nightmare is over!I kid. I liked Sum 41 back in the 90s. But like a lot of pop punk from the late 90s, I feel like a dork blasting it out my minivan window when I’m picking up my teenager son from school.
Shit, did I just Quantum Leap back to the Bush Administration, or has Sum 41 been around this whole time? Which is a scarier thought?
You’ve obviously been fooled. And, y’know, there’s an old sayin’ in Tennessee – I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee – “fool me once, shame on- shame on you, fool me…you can’t get fooled again”.
I was pretty sure they broke up in like 2003.
Heh
Did they lose a copyright lawsuit?
“he’s the only original member”…i mean, technically? But two of the other guys in the band have been there since before they made it big, so it’s not the lead singer + a bunch of ringers or anything.
This isn’t a “The Beach Boys featuring Mike Love” situation
I know art is subjective and its not my place to hate on bands, but Sum 41 is one of the few mainstream bands that I just couldn’t stand. I’m not much of a pop-punk person to start with, but something about them made my skin crawl. They were like the James Corden of pop-punk bands.
That was indeed savage and cold.
A punk band so unbearably cutesy and lightweight that they made NOFX sound like Discharge. And then they turned into like, an emo band and somehow got even worse.
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How long before they’re doing a Vegas residency?