Lowlands Review: Sum 41

august-23rd-2016

Next one to destroy the ‘Bravo’ Stage was punkrock legends Sum 41. Sum 41 made their comeback earlier this year and will release their first new album since 2011 this October. Sum 41’s older tracks are timeless and that’s been proven once again. When Sum 41 played the first note and people were convinced that the band was indeed standing there after all these years of semi-inactivity, the moshpits started whirling. Old tracks such as ‘Motivation’ and of course ‘In Too Deep’ were sung back on top of everybody’s longues but also ‘newer’ tracks like ‘Screaming Bloody Murder’ did extremely well with the audience. We even got a live version of lead single ‘Fake My Own Death’ of the new album ’14 Voices’.

Despite the somewhat lack of energy during this track (probaby due to the fact that this track has not been played live tons and tons of times yet), the performance of the track was excellent. If only we’re lucky enough that the entire new album is filled with bangers like these.

A set from Sum 41 is one big party from beginning to end. Tracks are being played quickly after eachother, with instead of silence in between interludes to nice and slowly shift the music into the right direction for the next track.
Fans were asked on stage, walls of death and circle pits were requested and sing-a-longs were demanded. Sum 41 have proven once again that they are still absolute legends. Be on the lookout for this upcoming record.
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Check some photos of the guys onstage below.

Glenn van den Bosch

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