Here’s what Sum 41 played on final show of farewell tour

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Sum 41 played the final show of their farewell tour in Toronto on Thursday (January 30) – see footage and setlist below.The pop-punk band announced in late 2023 that they would be breaking up after the release of one final album and a farewell world tour, dubbed ‘Tour Of The Setting Sum’.

Those shows culminated this month with a run of 13 shows in their home country of Canada.The final show went down at Toronto’s Scotiabank Arena, where they played a lengthy 29-song set that covered the entire span of their career, as well as snippets of two classic metal tracks in the form of Slayer’s ‘Raining Blood’ and Metallica’s ‘Master Of Puppets’.Check out some fan-captured footage from the historic show below.The band’s frontman Deryck Whibley posted on Instagram on Friday (January 31), writing simply, “Thank you”, alongside an image that bears the slogan “Sum 41 R.I.P.”A post shared by Deryck Whibley (@deryckwhibley)Last summer, guitarist Dave Baksh and bassist Jason “Cone” McCaslin touched upon how the band had become “stronger” in recent years, following health issues faced by Whibley.“We took about two years off for Deryck to figure out his health problems and then when we got back together with Dave it just seemed [right]” Cone said during the NME interview. “When everything got back together it felt really good.

It’s been a rollercoaster for our whole career so it feels good to be playing these big festivals and higher up on the bill now.”Speaking to NME about why their latest album ‘Heaven :x: Hell’ felt like the right pick for their last LP and why now felt like the right time to call it quits, Whibley shared: “I feel really good about this album, which is why I felt it should be the last one.