The Maximum Fun Tour rolled into Syracuse to deliver a night of metalcore intensity and pop-punk nostalgia at the Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater at Lakeview on Sept. 10, 2025.

The penultimate show of the 2025 Empower Amp season drew a sea of black outfits and thousands of band T-shirts. A security guard told syracuse.com that about 6,500 fans packed the venue on a late-summer night that felt like the edge of fall.

A Day to Remember took the stage around 9:30 p.m., opening with John Williams’ “2001: A Space Odyssey” theme, one of several ’80s movie nods sprinkled through the night from both headliners, before slamming into “The Downfall of Us All.” A massive floor-to-ceiling 3D screen lit up with a “Land of the Lost” version of the band’s name, while a handful of lucky fans wat

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