After completing the North American, European, and other legs of their “Farewell Tour,” SEPULTURA has unveiled a new set of dates, this time centered on Latin America.
The tour is scheduled for March 2025, beginning in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, on March 11 and wrapping up on March 30 in São Paulo, Brazil.
Band comments: “We’re thrilled to announce that our ‘Celebrating Life Through Death’ tour is returning to Latin America in 2025! In addition to our festival dates in Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina, we’ve added exclusive shows in Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Paraguay!
Tour dates are as follows:
March 11, 2025: Tegucigalpa, HN @ Estación Amienito Bazar Del Sábado
March 12, 2025: San Salvador, SV @ Museo De Marte
March 13, 2025: Guatemala City, GT @ Parque de la Industria
March 16, 2025: Mexico City, MX @ Vive Latino
March 22, 2025: Buenos Aires, AR @ Lollapalooza
March 23, 2025: Santiago, CL @ Lollapalooza
March 28, 2025: Asunción, PY @ SND Arena
March 30, 2025: São Paulo, BR @ Lollapalooza
In a recent interview with France’s Loud TV, SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser, whose wife Patricia Perissinoto Kisser passed away in July 2022 after a battle with colon cancer, was asked whether the loss of his longtime partner played a role in SEPULTURA‘s decision to launch a farewell tour.
He responded: Yeah, for sure. Definitely. The death of Patricia, my late wife, was two years and a half ago, [due to] cancer. The process was very painful, very difficult, of course, as we can imagine, but it’s been an open experience, to know myself, my family, new opportunities to talk about life because of dying.
“In Brazil is one of the worst places to die. A lot of people are forgotten from society, going through the same problems with cancer and very difficult illness and stuff. And I created this movement to inspire and stimulate people in Brazil to talk about dying in many respects, about euthanasia, about suicide, assisted suicide, about palliative care, especially, because in Brazil, we’re still growing up on that manner, because my wife, she had the palliative care and stuff. We were privileged to give that, because of health insurance and all that stuff. But most of the people in Brazil, they don’t have that. So we started this movement, this campaign, a festival [Patfest], a music festival as well that we did for two years now. I just did the third edition now to raise funds for the people who take and give palliative care to the favelas [impoverished neighborhoods in Brazil] in Rio, for the very poor people that are forgotten for society and stuff, and at the same time stimulate people to talk about dying.
“I learned that death is my biggest professor. I’m learning so much about life because I respect finitude. We cannot control that. We’re all gonna die. You’re gonna die. The camera’s gonna die. [Laughs] Any electronic [device will eventually stop working]. So it is what it is. We cannot choose. What we can choose is to live the moment. The intensity of the present is much more intense if you respect finitude.
“If you go to a movie and it doesn’t have any end, there’s no meaning, there’s no message,” He added. “A book, anything you do in your life, a job, this interview, we have to finish. The way we think [in] phases — beginning, cause and effect; beginning, middle and conclusion. And that’s life. Let’s respect that. Let’s not try to live forever, AI, robots, and all that stuff. Let’s be human and respect finitude, respect dying.”
“It’s been very amazing for me, the experience I had with my family, my wife, and SEPULTURA now. It’s something very respectful that we give to ourselves, the respect for the present and the life we have. Of course, it’s a very difficult situation, very painful, a lot of sadness and sorrow, the grief, but at the same time, there’s a beauty around everything. We should talk about dying with our family, the last wishes, how are we gonna do the dividing the money for the people who stay, the documents you need to sign.
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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