Sepultura is over. Derrick Green, Paulo Jr., Andreas Kisser and Eloy Casagrande met this Friday (08) to announce the end of the activities of the most successful Brazilian metal band of all time. Started in the house of brothers Max and Iggor Cavalera almost forty years ago in Belo Horizonte, the group ends its activities in a press conference in a luxury hotel in the south of São Paulo and does not mention any problems among its members, they only talk about the end of cycle.
It’s the excuse to, inevitably, talk about the farewell tour that starts next year and will visit more than 40 countries for eighteen months. In 2024, the group celebrates four decades of history.
The “Celebrating Life Through Death” tour will start on March 1st, at Arena Hall, in Belo Horizonte. Afterwards, the group heads to other cities in Brazil and other countries in Latin America and Europe.
The band is also expected to release an album recorded live with 40 tracks, some recorded during the final tour.
“We are at the best moment in the band’s history and we leave the scene in a very calm way”, explains guitarist Andreas Kisser. “These are cycles that close and are renewed. We want to celebrate. I didn’t want Sepultura to end up with a fight or for us to get too old on stage”, highlighting that the group doesn’t end, because of the relationship with the fans, citing Eric Clapton’s Cream as an example to know when it’s time to conclude process.
Formed in 1984 in Belo Horizonte, the band put Brazil on the world heavy metal map in its first decade of activity, first on tours carried out across Europe (at a time when international trips were arranged by letter and phone calls, as there was the internet) and then by winning over specialized critics with a sequence of albums that are still considered classics today: Beneath the Remains (1989), Arise (1991), Chaos AD (1993) and Roots (1996).
The year of the album in which they most flirted with Brazilian music also marked the departure of Max Cavalera from the group, who left the band to do his own work with the group Soulfly. In his place came the American Derrick Green. Max’s brother, Igor, would leave the band ten years later. Bassist Paulo Jr. is the only member of the group’s original lineup.
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Source: CNN Brasil
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