In a recent interview with IMPACT Metal Channel, SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser commented on Max and Igor Cavalera‘s choice to re-record classic SEPULTURA albums Morbid Visions, Bestial Devastation, and Schizophrenia.
He responded (as transcribed by Blabbermouth): “I don’t think anything. I mean, it’s a weird choice that they had. I think artistic value is zero. Maybe they’re going for some money or something, but there’s no reason to do something like that. I much rather prefer THE TROOPS OF DOOM, the new band from Jairo [former SEPULTURA guitarist Jairo ‘Tormentor’ Guedz], which are doing a really amazing tribute to that era, very honest, doing new stuff, writing new music… But if they’re having a good time, so let it be. I don’t care, man. I just think it’s totally unnecessary. It’s really very disrespectful from themselves, for their own selves in the past.”
“It’s weird to see a guy [Max] who always says, ‘Oh, I did this,’ ‘I did all that,’ ‘I’m so creative,’ and ‘I did everything by myself,’ and doing this s**t, like re-recording riffs that we did 30, 40 years ago. It doesn’t click, the rhetoric with the example. But whatever. I just don’t think that — the artistic value is zero.”
When asked if he might release new SEPULTURA music after the band’s ongoing farewell tour concludes, Kisser responded: “Yes, we’re working on new songs, actually, with [new SEPULTURA drummer] Greyson [Nekrutman]. We have an amazing chemistry. He’s an amazing musician, an amazing guy. We’re gonna put together, with the live album that we are recording, every show. The idea is to put together 40 songs in 40 different cities around the world. And together we’re gonna have four songs, new songs with Greyson, in this big package. So, yeah, we’re working on it. But we don’t have anything old, hidden or something. [SEPULTURA‘s former record label] Roadrunner put it out already, everything [laughs], that we have in the vaults there.”
Andreas shared what fans can anticipate from the new SEPULTURA songs, stating: “The unexpectable. Wait and see. [Laughs] Who knows?”
Max Cavalera left SEPULTURA in 1996 after the rest of the band split with his wife Gloria as their manager. His brother Igor stuck around with the group for another 10 years before leaving SEPULTURA and re-teaming with Max in CAVALERA CONSPIRACY.
SEPULTURA began its farewell tour on March 1, 2024, at Arena Hall in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The sold-out concert marked the band’s first performance with drummer Greyson Nekrutman, formerly of SUICIDAL TENDENCIES.
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