Sum 41 announced their breakup shortly after revealing tour dates with the Offspring in early 2023. As they continued their final tour through 2024, Noodles expressed how hard the news hit him during a recent chat with Heavy Consequence.
“Oh, man. I mean, they just got a library of great songs, great energy. Those guys are all just really solid, decent individuals, who kick a** on stage and in the studio,” he said while answering questions for the Offspring’s new album, ‘Supercharged.’
“Sum 41’s great,” he commented. “I’m sorry to see them call it quits. I hope that in a few years, they decide they’re bored and want to get back at it. No effects, our good friends. No effects. I can’t believe they’re calling it quits.”
Noodles also recalled reuniting with Sum 41 at the Riot Fest 2024 in Chicago last month and added, “Their last shows are coming up in a couple of weeks, man. Less than two weeks, I think. Anyway. It’s sad to see these friends of ours and legends go away.”
Sum 41’s final album, ‘Heaven × Hell,’ saw release in March 2024, not long after the band announced their farewell tour dates. Their social media post announcement said, “There comes a time when it all has to end.”
Frontman Deryck Whibley decided to end the band’s run long before the album’s release. “Once that album was finished, I’d realized, and I’d been thinking this for a while, that I felt like after all these years with my 1,000 percent focus on Sum 41 all day, every day, I felt like I don’t have much more of that in me to continue past this record,” the frontman previously shared.
As Sum 41 prepares to part ways, Whibley might lean into heavier music in the future. In an April interview with Chaoszine, he shared, “I find that the heavy side, like the metal stuff, I love writing metal riffs, but they’ve always made it into Sum 41 songs. I don’t know if I would go down and create a heavy metal band or something like that. Who knows?”
He continued, “That’s the exciting part is that I don’t know anything. I feel like the day Sum 41 tour ends, and maybe a couple weeks after that, I’ll wake up and go, ‘Holy sh*t, I don’t have anything. I gotta figure something out.’ That’s what I’ll know, what do I really want to do?”
Sum 41 will finish their European tour on December 8 and then play their final shows in Canada in January 2025, with their last performance scheduled for January 30 at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto.
