In a brand new interview with Actuality Verify TV carried out on January 24 at this 12 months’s NAMM conference in Anaheim, California, SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser was as soon as once more requested about the potential of reuniting with unique frontman Max Cavalera and drummer Igor “Iggor” Cavalera for a remaining present to cap off the band’s ongoing farewell tour. He mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I hope so. The thought is to do a really final present [in 2026] in São Paulo, Brazil, the place we now have all of the visitors, associates to rejoice our historical past.”
He continued: “There is not any cause to be preventing. We simply go on stage, take pleasure in ourselves. We all know tips on how 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 alternative adjustments and totally different kinds of music. And it is gonna be a tremendous social gathering — I hope so — and hopefully all people will probably be an element [of it].”
SEPULTURA kicked off the North American leg of the huge “Celebrating Life Via 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 had been Florida-based dying steel veterans OBITUARY, iconic New York hardcore pioneers AGNOSTIC FRONT, and São Paulo, Brazil’s dying/thrash metallers CLAUSTROFOBIA.
SEPULTURA is placing collectively a dwell album commemorating their final run of exhibits. The band is recording 40 songs in 40 totally different cities for what will probably be a “large compilation of our greatest, most energetic moments on stage,” in response to an announcement launched by SEPULTURA in December 2023.
Requested in a brand new interview with Germany’s Moshpit Ardour if SEPULTURA‘s remaining present can even be included within the bundle, Andreas mentioned: “Who is aware of? All the pieces is feasible. We did three massive 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 dwell 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 cause actually to hurry something. We’re having fun with the second a lot. We’re celebrating the momentum. It is implausible. It is superb. So it is one thing that’s gonna be on the recording as properly, this nice vibe, the connection we now have with the group and stuff. However, yeah, all the things is feasible. I imply, in fact, the final present, [it] could 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 a giant celebration for the followers.”
Acknowledging the truth that SEPULTURA had an acrimonious break up with Max Cavalera practically 30 years in the past, Andreas mentioned: “We do not care who is true or mistaken. We’re by no means gonna get to that time. [Laughs] Now we have totally different level of views and totally different views about identical historic occasions and stuff. So let’s jam, let’s have time for the followers, for us, for ourselves, and actually shut this superb 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 perspective, I prefer to, in fact, proceed with music and all the things, however perhaps do one thing totally different. Who is aware of?”
In a latest interview with Metallic Hammer journal, Kisser and vocalist Derrick Inexperienced had 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 performed small issues right here and there, however not a whole overview of my guitar enjoying and writing. I’ll determine when the time comes, however proper now it’s time to rejoice 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 exterior of steel with extra singing, but when any person 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 speak to one another by contract. When the contract is finished, we’re performed. [Laughs] No, in fact there are a number of potentialities. I’d like to work with Derrick exterior of SEPULTURA. Now we have the concept for a reggae undertaking on the playing cards, which we now have a fantastic identify for. The consolation zone is the worst factor that may occur to an artist. It will 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 undertaking”, 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 rejoice its fortieth anniversary in 2024 by embarking on a “farewell tour” which can cowl all the globe.
In SEPULTURA‘s assertion, the remaining bandmembers expressed their shock over Casagrande‘s departure, saying they had been “taken unexpectedly” that their now-former drummer would “abandon all the things associated to SEPULTURA” lower than a month previous to the beginning of the tour.