Jeremy McKinnon — vocalist, lyricist and founder of A Day to Remember — is the author of one of the most improbable combinations in American heavy rock, and the one most copied afterwards. He put the band together in Ocala, Florida, in the early 2000s, and the central idea was simple and counterintuitive: to join pop punk and metalcore in the same song. Not alternating between records, but within the same track — a melodic chorus of pop structure followed by a breakdown of extreme weight, with McKinnon moving from clean singing to screaming without transition. At the time the two audiences loathed each other, and the formula looked doomed. It worked. Homesick (2009) and What Separates Me from You (2010) put the band into the American mainstream, and the format became a model for a whole generation of groups. His path also includes a long legal dispute with the band's label, resolved when A Day to Remember released Common Courtesy (2013) on its own in the middle of the litigation — a risky decision the band won, and which became a reference for other artists in conflict over contracts. McKinnon also works as a producer for other bands of the circuit, extending to the studio chair the instinct for structure that defined his own repertoire.
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