In a current 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 stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We’re planning on doing a really large 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 wish to stretch [out the tour]. There is not any motive 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 couple of reveals in Central America, a couple of festivals this yr in Europe, a couple of particular live shows. In 2026 we would love to do all the large festivals and end in Brazil.”
Relating to what the farewell tour has been like to date, Andreas stated: ”It is wonderful. And it is nice to really feel and to see that SEPULTURA is necessary in so many individuals’s lives. Lots of people are very emotional coming to the reveals, remembering the primary present or the primary shirt, the primary music they ever heard. Some those who met their wives in a SEPULTURA live performance, they acquired married, they create their youngsters. It is wonderful.
“Heavy metallic, it is a large household, not solely the SEPULTURA followers, however all of the metallic neighborhood,” he continued. “It is a large 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 folks — folks which might be following SEPULTURA for therefore 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 come back to see us. So it is nice. We’re having one of the best instances. And all the things 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 state of affairs. We really feel nice. We’re having one of the 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 Test TV about the opportunity of reuniting with unique SEPULTURA frontman Max Cavalera and drummer Igor “Iggor” Cavalera for a remaining present to cap off the band’s ongoing farewell tour. He stated: “I hope so. The thought is to do a really final present [in 2026] in São Paulo, Brazil, the place we’ve got all of the company, pals to have fun our historical past.”
He continued: “There is not any motive to be preventing. We simply go on stage, get pleasure from ourselves. We all know the way to play the songs. It is gonna be a celebration for the followers. Forty years of historical past, it is so much — many albums, many various modifications and completely different types of music. And it is gonna be an incredible celebration — I hope so — and hopefully all people can be an element [of it].”
SEPULTURA kicked off the North American leg of the huge “Celebrating Life By means of Demise” 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 demise metallic veterans OBITUARY, iconic New York hardcore pioneers AGNOSTIC FRONT, and São Paulo, Brazil’s demise/thrash metallers CLAUSTROFOBIA.
SEPULTURA is placing collectively a stay album commemorating their final run of reveals. The band is recording 40 songs in 40 completely different cities for what can be a “large compilation of our greatest, most energetic moments on stage,” based on an announcement launched by SEPULTURA in December 2023.
Requested in a brand new interview with Germany’s Moshpit Ardour if SEPULTURA‘s remaining present may even be included within the bundle, Andreas stated: “Who is aware of? All the pieces is feasible. We did three large reveals 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 wish 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 motive 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’ve got with the group and stuff. However, yeah, all the things is feasible. I imply, after all, 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 examine what occurs. We’re working in direction of that, to have an enormous celebration for the followers.”
Acknowledging the truth that SEPULTURA had an acrimonious break up with Max Cavalera practically 30 years in the past, Andreas stated: “We do not care who is true or incorrect. We’re by no means gonna get to that time. [Laughs] We’ve completely different level of views and completely different views about similar historic occasions and stuff. So let’s jam, let’s have a great 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 completely different afterwards. At the least in my standpoint, I wish to, after all, proceed with music and all the things, however possibly do one thing completely different. Who is aware of?”
In a current 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 stated: “I do not know, and it feels nice. I need to research acoustic guitar, and to create educational materials on the SEPULTURA music. I’ve finished small issues right here and there, however not an entire overview of my guitar taking part in and writing. I’ll determine 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 all for doing voiceover work in animation or commercials. Musically, I would love to do one thing outdoors of metallic with extra singing, but when someone approaches with one thing I feel is intriguing, I am positively 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 finished. [Laughs] No, after all there are quite a lot of potentialities. I might like to work with Derrick outdoors of SEPULTURA. We’ve the concept for a reggae mission on the playing cards, which we’ve got an ideal 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 Area 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 hitch “one other mission”, 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 can cowl the complete globe.
In SEPULTURA‘s assertion, the remaining bandmembers expressed their shock over Casagrande‘s departure, saying they have been “taken abruptly” that their now-former drummer would “abandon all the things associated to SEPULTURA” lower than a month previous to the beginning of the tour.
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