Sepultura have been consistently dropping records every couple of years lately, but alas, no more—A recent interview reveals that they will nOT be releasing anything but live music anytime soon.
Guitarist Andreas Kisser spilled the tea in an interview with Everblack podcast, which you can watch in full below.
“We are recording everything,” says Kisser. “We started in Europe for the whole month; we recorded everything. We went to Indonesia and Singapore and recorded there, and now in Australia 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.”
Kisser claims that there are currently no follow-up plans to their 2020 album Quadra, not now, and not in a few years from now. They want to focus on their live album instead.
“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.”
Bummer for Sepultura fans, but it looks like their live album and Quadra will still be getting a lot of love, and this could mean more touring as well. But for the time being, don’t bug Sepultura about putting out new music.