Watch first: footage from the final show is on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTWPc5aI7uQ and it puts you right in the room at the Suhai Music Hall in Sao Paulo. Press play, then come back here. This one deserves the volume up.
It is actually over. On Saturday night, November 7, Sepultura played the final concert of their career, at home in Brazil, and they did not sneak out the back door. Thirty two songs. That is not a setlist, that is a band emptying the vault on its way out the door.
They opened with Arise and closed the encore with Roots Bloody Roots, and in between they reached all the way back. Altered State came out for the first time since 2013. We've Lost You for the first time since 2015. Itsari, with Krisiun's Moyses Kolesne sitting in, for the first time since 1998. Kaiowas turned into a percussion party with fans up on the stage. This was not a band running the hits on autopilot. This was a band reading its own history out loud, front to back.
The guest list tells the story by itself. Jairo Guedz, the guitarist Andreas Kisser replaced back in 1987, came home for Biotech Is Godzilla, Slave New World, and Troops of Doom. Joao Gordo of Ratos de Porao jumped in for Reza and two of his own band's songs. And on Convicted In Life, the guest was Yohan Kisser, Andreas's son. The past on one side, the future on the other, and Kisser in the middle holding both. If you designed a farewell in a lab, you could not beat that.
“Thirty two songs. That is not a setlist, that is a band emptying the vault on its way out the door.”
Moe Train
Krisiun, Sacred Reich, and Metal Allegiance opened the night, which is exactly the right kind of heavy for a goodbye like this. The show was originally booked for a stadium that holds around 26,000 and got moved in September to the Suhai, which holds just over 9,000. Smaller room, same earthquake.
The farewell tour, Celebrating Life Through Death, started March 1, 2024 in Belo Horizonte, the city where this band formed in 1984. Four decades, and a run of albums that rewired heavy music: Beneath The Remains, Arise, Chaos A.D., Roots. Brazil gave the world a lot of things. It never gave the world anything else like this.
Kisser is not slamming the door forever, and he said so himself. The band needs the rest, the possibilities stay open, and there is a live album still coming, built from songs recorded in 40 different cities on this run, with a new EP in the works too. So this is the end of Sepultura the touring machine, not the end of Sepultura.
Still. Saturday night was the last show, and everybody in that room knew it. Obrigado, Sepultura. You changed the map.
Source: Blabbermouth
