Sepultura - Planning 40th Anniversary Celebration Live Album
It's been nearly four years since Brazilian metal veterans Sepultura release their most recent album Quadra, but according to guitarist Andreas Kisser, fans shouldn't expect another record soon as they will be spending most of 2024 celebrating their 40th anniversary as a band with a tour and new live album.
When asked about the live album, Andreas said the following in a new interview with Australia's "Everblack" podcast: "We are recording everything. We started in Europe for the whole month; we recorded everything. We went to Indonesia and Singapore and recorded there, and now in Australia [at the upcoming Good Things festivals] as well. So we wanna put out 40 songs in 40 different cities around the world, covering everything that we did - of course the classics, but also the side Bs and Cs, and really do a very complete history and also to show where we can go. I mean, Sepultura played in 80 countries in 40 years and we have fans all around the world, and I think it's about time we have a live album like that to celebrate together with them 40 years and in our best momentum. We feel great on stage. We are playing better than ever. We are enjoying ourselves, so I think it's gonna be a very special live album with all the recordings that we are doing right now. It's gonna be amazing."
As for whether the band has plans to work on the follow-up to Quadra yet, he said: "No, not at all, man. No new album in a few years. We're very focused on the live album, the celebrations 40 years. We're gonna have a lot of stuff connected to that. We created a logo, so we wanna stretch, we wanna record the [live] album, celebrate and then see what happens. I don't wanna force ourselves to write just to write. It has to feel [like we have] something new to express. And I feel, and we feel, in Sepultura that the Quadra album is still very powerful, very strong. A lot of people didn't see the album live, like Australia, for instance, so we wanna really go as much as we can. And it's such an amazing album to play live, so we wanna enjoy as much as we can the Quadra situation, and then we can move on."
When asked about the live album, Andreas said the following in a new interview with Australia's "Everblack" podcast: "We are recording everything. We started in Europe for the whole month; we recorded everything. We went to Indonesia and Singapore and recorded there, and now in Australia [at the upcoming Good Things festivals] as well. So we wanna put out 40 songs in 40 different cities around the world, covering everything that we did - of course the classics, but also the side Bs and Cs, and really do a very complete history and also to show where we can go. I mean, Sepultura played in 80 countries in 40 years and we have fans all around the world, and I think it's about time we have a live album like that to celebrate together with them 40 years and in our best momentum. We feel great on stage. We are playing better than ever. We are enjoying ourselves, so I think it's gonna be a very special live album with all the recordings that we are doing right now. It's gonna be amazing."
As for whether the band has plans to work on the follow-up to Quadra yet, he said: "No, not at all, man. No new album in a few years. We're very focused on the live album, the celebrations 40 years. We're gonna have a lot of stuff connected to that. We created a logo, so we wanna stretch, we wanna record the [live] album, celebrate and then see what happens. I don't wanna force ourselves to write just to write. It has to feel [like we have] something new to express. And I feel, and we feel, in Sepultura that the Quadra album is still very powerful, very strong. A lot of people didn't see the album live, like Australia, for instance, so we wanna really go as much as we can. And it's such an amazing album to play live, so we wanna enjoy as much as we can the Quadra situation, and then we can move on."
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