Neil Westfall — American guitarist — is a co-founder of A Day to Remember and, besides Jeremy McKinnon, the only member present throughout the band's history. His function is to execute the formula that made the group recognisable: pop punk and metalcore within the same song. That means writing and playing two incompatible things in sequence — a melodic riff of pop structure in one section, a low-tuned breakdown of extreme weight in the next — and making the transition sound inevitable rather than arbitrary. It is a problem of composition before it is one of execution, and most bands that copied the format did not solve it. He was there at the founding in Ocala, Florida, in the early 2000s, and recorded the entire discography: from And Their Name Was Treason (2005) to You're Welcome (2021), by way of Homesick (2009) and What Separates Me from You (2010), the records that took the band into the American mainstream. He also crossed the legal dispute with the label that almost interrupted the group's career, resolved when A Day to Remember released Common Courtesy (2013) on its own in the middle of the litigation.
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