Sum 41 announced their decision to break up shortly after revealing some tour dates with The Offspring in early 2023. As the band continued playing their final shows through 2024, Noodles described the disbandment news as devastating.
“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,” the guitarist shared when asked about the matter during a Heavy Consequence interview for The Offspring’s new record ‘Supercharged.’
“Sum 41’s great,” he went on. “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.”
Noting that they just met up with Sum 41 at Riot Fest 2024 in Chicago last month, Noodles 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 released their latest record, ‘Heaven :x: Hell,’ in March 2024, just months after announcing their farewell tour through a social media post that read, “There comes a time when it all has to end.” Frontman Deryck Whibley decided to end the band’s journey long before that, though.
“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 shared.
Now that the long-running pop-punk band is saying goodbye, Whibley may move toward heavier music in the future. He told Chaoszine in April, “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?”
“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 be on tour in Europe until December 8, then head to Canada for their final shows in January 2025. Their last concert will take place at Scotiabank Arena in Toronto on January 30.