In a latest interview with Germany’s Metallic Hammer journal, guitarist Andreas Kisser spoke about SEPULTURA‘s plans for the rest of the Brazilian band’s farewell tour, which launched in early 2024. Requested the place the ultimate SEPULTURA live performance will happen, Andreas mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We’re planning on doing a really huge present in São Paulo, Brazil, or in [SEPULTURA‘s original hometown of] Belo Horizonte. We’re nonetheless balancing these concepts. However on the finish of 2026, we would like to do that final present. We might prefer to stretch [out the tour]. There is not any purpose for us to cease in a rush simply because we introduced [the] final [tour] two years in the past or so. We had a good time final yr. This yr is already wanting nice…. We’re doing Lollapalooza in South America — Brazil, Argentina and Chile. We’ve a number of exhibits in Central America, a number of festivals this yr in Europe, a number of particular concert events. In 2026 we would love to do all the massive festivals and end in Brazil.”
Concerning what the farewell tour has been like up to now, Andreas mentioned:  ”It is wonderful. And it is nice to really feel and to see that SEPULTURA is essential in so many individuals’s lives. Lots of people are very emotional coming to the exhibits, remembering the primary present or the primary shirt, the primary track they ever heard. Some people who met their wives in a SEPULTURA live performance, they acquired married, they create their children. It is wonderful.
“Heavy metallic, it is a huge household, not solely the SEPULTURA followers, however all of the metallic group,” he continued. “It is a huge household. And it is nice to see that lots of people that by no means seen SEPULTURA earlier than are coming to see SEPULTURA for the primary time, which is nice. And never solely younger individuals — individuals which might be following SEPULTURA for thus a few years, they’ve by no means seen SEPULTURA stay, and now that we are saying that is the final [tour we will do], they’re leaving their homes to return to see us. So it is nice. We’re having the very best occasions. And every thing is the way in which it is speculated to be, the way in which we deliberate — to have fun. It is not a tragic or melancholic scenario. We really feel nice. We’re having the very best time of our lives and celebrating. It is a very grateful feeling for our followers.”
Lower than two months in the past, Kisser was requested by Actuality Verify TV about the potential of reuniting with authentic SEPULTURA frontman Max Cavalera and drummer Igor “Iggor” Cavalera for a ultimate present to cap off the band’s ongoing farewell tour. He mentioned: “I hope so. The concept is to do a really final present [in 2026] in São Paulo, Brazil, the place we now have all of the friends, buddies to have fun our historical past.”
He continued: “There is not any purpose to be preventing. We simply go on stage, get pleasure from ourselves. We all know how one can play the songs. It is gonna be a celebration for the followers. Forty years of historical past, it is quite a bit — many albums, many alternative modifications and totally different kinds of music. And it is gonna be a tremendous celebration — I hope so — and hopefully all people will probably be an element [of it].”
SEPULTURA kicked off the North American leg of the large “Celebrating Life By means of Loss of life” farewell tour on September 17, 2024 on the Harmony Music Corridor in Chicago, Illinois. The band performed a career-spanning set that honors SEPULTURA‘s 40 years of existence. Becoming a member of SEPULTURA on this tour have been Florida-based dying metallic veterans OBITUARY, iconic New York hardcore pioneers AGNOSTIC FRONT, and São Paulo, Brazil’s dying/thrash metallers CLAUSTROFOBIA.
SEPULTURA is placing collectively a stay album commemorating their final run of exhibits. The band is recording 40 songs in 40 totally different cities for what will probably be a “huge compilation of our greatest, most energetic moments on stage,” in accordance with an announcement launched by SEPULTURA in December 2023.
Requested in a brand new interview with Germany’s Moshpit Ardour if SEPULTURA‘s ultimate present will even be included within the package deal, Andreas mentioned: “Who is aware of? All the pieces is feasible. We did three huge exhibits in São Paulo [Brazil] earlier than we went to the States. And we recorded the entire present — the cameras, DVD and stuff. After all, these things that we’re recording for the stay album is audio solely. And we’re planning to have the final farewell present in São Paulo in 2026, so we prefer to go locations, we like to go to locations that we have by no means been earlier than. We love to do our goodbye in a relaxed temper — no hurry. There is not any purpose actually to hurry something. We’re having fun with the second a lot. We’re celebrating the momentum. It is implausible. It is wonderful. So it is one thing that’s gonna be on the recording as nicely, this nice vibe, the connection we now have with the gang and stuff. However, yeah, every thing is feasible. I imply, in fact, the final present, [it] can be nice to have a register. We like to ask all of the ex-members, together with the brothers, Cavalera brothers. Let’s have a look at what occurs. We’re working in the direction of that, to have a giant celebration for the followers.”
Acknowledging the truth that SEPULTURA had an acrimonious cut up with Max Cavalera practically 30 years in the past, Andreas mentioned: “We do not care who is correct or flawed. We’re by no means gonna get to that time. [Laughs] We’ve totally different level of views and totally different views about similar historic occasions and stuff. So let’s jam, let’s have an excellent time for the followers, for us, for ourselves, and actually shut this wonderful 43 years or 44, no matter it is gonna be on the time, in peace with ourselves, and actually attain for one thing totally different afterwards. At the least in my standpoint, I prefer to, in fact, proceed with music and every thing, however perhaps do one thing totally different. Who is aware of?”
In a latest interview with Metallic Hammer journal, Kisser and vocalist Derrick Inexperienced have been requested about their plans for after the completion of the farewell tour. Andreas mentioned: “I do not know, and it feels nice. I need to examine acoustic guitar, and to create tutorial materials on the SEPULTURA music. I’ve executed small issues right here and there, however not an entire overview of my guitar enjoying and writing. I’ll resolve when the time comes, however proper now it’s time to have fun the second.”
Derrick added: “I need to do much more with the TV present I am engaged on, ‘Freeway To Well being’. I’ve additionally been inquisitive about doing voiceover work in animation or commercials. Musically, I might love to do one thing exterior of metallic with extra singing, but when someone approaches with one thing I believe is intriguing, I am undoubtedly open to that, as a result of I by no means need to step away from music.”
Requested if Andreas and Derrick will nonetheless work collectively sooner or later, Kisser quipped: “Nah. We solely discuss to one another by contract. When the contract is finished, we’re executed. [Laughs] No, in fact there are numerous prospects. I’d like to work with Derrick exterior of SEPULTURA. We’ve the concept for a reggae venture on the playing cards, which we now have an excellent title for. The consolation zone is the worst factor that may occur to an artist. It could be boring to cease SEPULTURA and do one thing else that’s SEPULTURA-like.”
SEPULTURA kicked off its farewell tour on March 1, 2024 at Enviornment Corridor in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The sold-out present marked the band’s debut efficiency with drummer Greyson Nekrutman, who beforehand performed with SUICIDAL TENDENCIES.
SEPULTURA introduced drummer Eloy Casagrande‘s departure on February 27, 2024, explaining in an announcement that he was leaving to affix “one other venture”, with Eloy later confirming that he’s the brand new drummer of SLIPKNOT.
The information of Eloy‘s exit from SEPULTURA got here simply two months after the band introduced it could have fun its fortieth anniversary in 2024 by embarking on a “farewell tour” which is able to cowl your entire globe.
In SEPULTURA‘s assertion, the remaining bandmembers expressed their shock over Casagrande‘s departure, saying they have been “taken without warning” that their now-former drummer would “abandon every thing associated to SEPULTURA” lower than a month previous to the beginning of the tour.
Photograph credit score: Edu Defferrari
