Throughout an look on a current episode of the “One Life One Likelihood With Toby Morse” podcast, SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser spoke concerning the band’s ongoing farewell tour, which launched in March and is anticipated to final by means of 2026. He mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “It is [going] superb. This tour was organized to be this manner, to rejoice 40 years. It is a tremendous historical past, very distinctive historical past in metallic. And we’re going by means of our greatest momentum. We had a terrific album, we survived the lockdown. We made an album in the course of the lockdown, which was superb. It stored the band alive and dealing and busy throughout a really tough time. And the enterprise now, it is simply booming. You see what number of excursions are happening within the States on the similar time, on the similar locations. And we’re very completely happy that we’ve our crowd, man. It is nice to see our devoted followers needed to be there to rejoice along with us. Very emotional, as a result of they keep in mind the primary present, the primary shirt, the primary music, the lyrics that helped them by means of tough instances. Those that obtained married as a result of they met at a SEPULTURA live performance. [Laughs] It is nice. Those that convey their households, their youngsters and stuff. In any case, it is 40 years of historical past. And we’re doing our largest exhibits in Brazil, as an example, with a giant manufacturing, two hours of set time, which is remarkable for SEPULTURA. And it feels nice. It feels so nice to play our historical past.”
He continued: “Lots of people complain that we miss some albums, some facet Bs and facet Cs, after which we’re incorporating that to the setlist and bringing the followers to play along with us on stage, percussion, which is a really spotlight of the present, I assume, as a result of folks get so completely happy. Are you able to think about you go to a present and your idol calls you to be on stage with you, man? It is fucking nice. So it is, it is improbable, man. We’re having a good time.”
Kisser additionally talked about SEPULTURA‘s plans to place collectively a dwell album commemorating its final run of exhibits. The band is recording 40 songs in 40 totally different cities for what shall be a “huge compilation of our greatest, most energetic moments on stage,” in response to a press release launched by SEPULTURA final December. Requested if the truth that SEPULTURA is recording each present on the present tour places “any form of additional strain” on the band, Andreas mentioned: “By no means. We do not even keep in mind [that we are recording the shows while we are playing them]. As a result of we’re doing each present, so it’s extremely spontaneous. As a result of if you go, ‘We’re gonna have a dwell venture,’ a particular present or two or three, no matter. However in a single place, and all the eye is there, you will have the cameras, you will have no matter additional folks working, which aren’t normally on the highway, so you’re feeling slightly extra strain. And doing it this manner, we do not even keep in mind we’re recording, which is superior.”
Final month, Andreas instructed Kati Rausch of Music Interview Nook about SEPULTURA‘s plans to launch the dwell album: “We’re gonna put it out in components digitally — possibly six, eight songs, each half, each block. After which on the finish, when we’ve the 40 songs chosen and launched digitally, we’re gonna put out a field set — vinyl, double vinyl, with lots of photos and photographs. It’s going to be superb, like old-school dwell stuff.”
Earlier final month, Kisser, whose spouse Patricia Perissinoto Kisser handed away in July 2022 after a battle with colon most cancers, admitted to France’s Loud TV that the expertise of shedding his longtime companion accelerated the choice for SEPULTURA to embark on a farewell tour.
Patricia had simply turned 52 years previous in the future earlier than her demise.
Andreas and the couple’s three youngsters, Giulia, Yohan and Enzo, introduced Patricia‘s demise in a social media publish. They wrote: “It’s with deep unhappiness that we’ve to share that Patricia Perissinoto Kisser handed away this morning. She’s going to stay in our reminiscences without end.”
Andreas and Patricia had been collectively for 32 years after first getting collectively in 1990. They married in 1994.
In June 2022, Andreas left SEPULTURA‘s European tour resulting from what was described on the time as a “household emergency.” He was quickly changed on the highway by Jean Patton of fellow São Paulo, Brazil-based heavy metallic act PROJECT46.
SEPULTURA‘s present lineup contains Kisser, vocalist Derrick Inexperienced, bassist Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr. and drummer Greyson Nekrutman.
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 Nekrutman, who beforehand performed with SUICIDAL TENDENCIES.