Metal
Sepultura played the last concert of their career on Saturday 7 November at Suhai Music Hall in São Paulo, and closed it with “Roots Bloody Roots”. It was the final date of “Celebrating Life Through Death”, the farewell tour they began on 1 March 2024 in Belo Horizonte, the city where they formed in 1984.
The show had been announced for Mercado Livre Arena Pacaembu, which holds 25,000. On 8 September Live Nation Brasil moved it to Suhai, which holds 9,000, and neither the band nor the promoter gave a reason, according to Rolling Stone Brasil. CNN Brasil reports that the show sold out. Sacred Reich, Krisiun and Metal Allegiance opened the night.
Derrick Green, Andreas Kisser, Paulo Jr. and Greyson Nekrutman played from 9.05pm to 11.45pm: thirty songs, eighteen from the Max Cavalera era, ten from Green’s and two Ratos de Porão covers. They opened with “Arise”; “Itsári” got its first live airing since 1998.
Jairo Guedz, the guitarist who preceded Kisser and played on “Bestial Devastation” and “Morbid Visions”, joined them for “Biotech Is Godzilla”, “Slave New World” and “Troops of Doom”. Andreas’s son Yohan Kisser came on for “Convicted in Life”. João Gordo of Ratos de Porão sang “Reza”, and was joined by bandmate Jão for the two Ratos covers; Krisiun’s Moyses Kolesne played on “Itsári” and “Kaiowas”, and Torture Squad’s Amilcar Christófaro drummed on “Beneath the Remains”.
Max and Iggor Cavalera weren’t there. Kisser said they would always be Sepultura.
Asked by Metal On Tap about a possible return, Kisser said: “I don’t rule anything out,” adding: “The important thing is that we’re gonna stop now.” No date has been announced.
Text by Roger Estivill