In an interview with Jarek Szubrycht as a part of “Mystic Talks” at this yr’s Mystic Pageant in Gdańsk, Poland, SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser spoke in regards to the band’s plans to launch new music with SEPULTURA‘s present touring drummer, 23-year-old Greyson Nekrutman, who formally changed SEPULTURA‘s longtime drummer Eloy Casagrande in February 2024. He mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): ”We recorded 4 new songs with Greyson on drums. I do not assume no one is aware of that, however there we go. We have now 4 new songs, and we’ve got the intention, subsequent yr, to launch an EP, simply to rejoice this momentum. It is unique songs that we labored [out]. It is already recorded and every thing, and we’re taking our time, actually, to see the place it is gonna be the nice time to do it.”
Concerning how the brand new SEPULTURA materials happened, Andreas mentioned: “It was very spontaneous. We had a state of affairs that we performed the 70000 Tons Of Metallic [cruise in January 2025] and we stayed in Miami. ‘We have now this studio. We have now just a few concepts. Okay, let’s do it.’ [Laughs] And it was nice. No stress from labels, no due date. The songs [don’t] even have [names] but. [Laughs] But it surely’s nice… We did it in our time with no rush. There is no names [for the songs]. We are able to resolve that later. We’re nonetheless mixing the fabric — no rush. And it is nice. Due to the farewell [tour] concept, we are able to try this as nicely, to plan one thing like that, or not plan one thing like that, plan as much less that we are able to to essentially to problem ourselves artistically to work one thing like that.”
Requested if SEPULTURA‘s determination to embark on a two-and-a-half-year farewell tour was motivated in any approach by his need to discover different types of music away from excessive metallic, Andreas mentioned: ”I by no means felt form of locked within the SEPULTURA world to put in writing [in a specific style]. We have been at all times very fearless to do no matter we wish. I imply, ‘Nation’ is a really totally different album, ‘A-Lex’, all these albums that have been impressed by books and stuff. It’s, I believe, extra of the routine of being in a band like SEPULTURA. 40 years — 40 years, man. Have you ever ever completed one thing for 40 years, like your job? Give it some thought. [Laughs] It is an incredible achievement contained in the leisure enterprise to have such a band for thus lengthy, and ups and downs, to have a following. Each time we have been doing albums, we have been enjoying, we had a take care of the file label, whatever the formation, whatever the time we have been. We performed for 10 folks, then we have been again to play large locations and stuff. It is an attractive historical past. It is an attractive historical past of artwork and life. And I used to be form of feeling to get in that mode of doing one other album, doing one other tour, it is form of too predictable. I imply, an artist needs to be not within the consolation zone. Should you’re there, you are fucked, as a result of you are going to lose contact with actuality. You are gonna begin residing on this bubble of what SEPULTURA ought to be. There is no ‘ought to’. There is a new SEPULTURA day by day. We are able to do something we wish, musically smart, as a result of we conquered that. SEPULTURA is that this. It’s not thrash metallic. It isn’t heavy metallic. It isn’t darkish metallic. It isn’t Brazilian metallic. It is SEPULTURA metallic. That is why we’ve got a reputation, proper? [Laughs] In any other case, why have a reputation? That is SEPULTURA. That is what we’re — very free. We’re not scared or to take dangers. Artwork is dangers. Should you do one thing new, you are gonna take dangers. There is no different approach. And that is the place you be taught, along with your errors or along with your errors and your every thing. But it surely’s nice to cease in an amazing momentum with out combating, with out an exterior issue breaking apart this band. It is our personal phrases. We selected that very peacefully, a acutely aware determination. We took two years speaking about figuring out, making ready this, and now we having fun with ourselves. It is superb. And why not? I imply, it is a privilege to have that, to have that chance, to cease whereas we are able to or to cease on this momentum. After which the long run is the long run. Let’s have a look at. [Laughs]”
Kisser additionally as soon as once more spoke about what SEPULTURA‘s remaining live performance may appear like. He mentioned: “The thought is to do it round October 2026 in São Paulo, Brazil. A giant SEPUL-fest sort of present, a celebration with bands which can be necessary. And as part of SEPULTURA‘s historical past, we like to ask each member that was part of SEPULTURA, together with the Cavalera brothers [Max and Igor], to be part of the live performance, to play, to jam. I imply, it’s very irrelevant to debate the previous, who is correct, who’s incorrect. We’re by no means gonna get to a degree — we’re gonna have two totally different views of it, and that is advantageous. That is irrelevant. Let’s jam for the followers, to ourselves, to our households [who had] by no means seen us collectively. However not solely them — Jairo [Guedz], Eloy Casagrande, Jean Patton and Roy Mayorga, musicians that have been part of SEPULTURA in very particular and necessary moments that stored SEPULTURA flowing and going no matter our issues and our challenges that we had. So hopefully that may occur. They’re gonna be invited. Should you wanna be part of this celebration, you might be welcome. If not, that is advantageous.”
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.
SEPULTURA introduced Casagrande‘s departure on February 27, 2024, explaining in a press release that he was leaving to affix “one other challenge”, with Eloy later confirming that he was the brand new drummer of SLIPKNOT.
The information of Eloy‘s exit from SEPULTURA got here simply two months after the band introduced it might 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 have been “taken unexpectedly” that their now-former drummer would “abandon every thing associated to SEPULTURA” lower than a month previous to the beginning of the tour.
SEPULTURA is placing collectively a dwell album commemorating its final run of reveals. The band is recording 40 songs in 40 totally different cities for what shall be a “large compilation of our greatest, most energetic moments on stage,” based on a press release launched by SEPULTURA in December 2023.
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 honored 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.
Photograph credit score: Edu Defferrari
