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Let The Good Things Roll With ANDREAS KISSER From SEPULTURA · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  All right, here's Andreas Kisser from Sepultura bras you it's beautiful. Andrea's thanks
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  to join us today. Thank you man, pleasure. Okay, Delta will
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  be an Australia is saying as part of Good Thing Is twenty twenty three,
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  which kicks off in Melbourne of December the first, then H's Sydney Die After
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  and finishes in prison on December thirds not far away, bry Are you packed
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  and ready to go? Yeah? Man, excited. You know it's been
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  since twenty eighteen. We we're not we don't come back to Australia, you
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  know, the lockdown delayed everything by two years, and now we finally have
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  this chance to play our new album not only at the festival, which is
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  amazing, you know, like a very diverse lineup and very glad to be
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  a part of it, but also our side shows. You know that we
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  can play a larger, you know, longer set list with more songs and
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  et cetera. It's gonna be a great way to close this amazing year for
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  us, you know, fantastic. You mentioned the dog sled up My Life.
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  It's got bands everywhere from Boy and olymp Biscuit, Davia Arbam, Valentine,
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  tore Tala Behamoth Like, is is there anyone on there that you haven't
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  played with before? Well, good question. I don't think we ever played
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  with fall Out Boy or Devo, and we did play with Limp Biscuit and
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  and Behemoth and uh with Corey Taylor. No, we played with Slip not
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  a few times, but not with his project, and it would be great.
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  I mean, to play festivals like that, it's awesome to play with
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  people that never seen Sepultur, you know, I was not expecting to see
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  us, and it's great. Also the backstage, you know, to meet
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  to to to see new friends and old friends and stuff. You know,
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  it's amazing atmosphere. And it's the first time we're doing a festival in Australia
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  like that, you know, so it's really exciting. Yeah, I gotta
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  mention that like backstage, the feeling it'd be, it'd be like a family
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  reunion in some respects for you guys. He's also of made up from all
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  over the world and get to catch up. Yeah, that's one of the
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  best things about festival is it's not only the bands, but you know,
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  grow people that we know around the world and friends that we made in Australia
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  that you know, our following Sepultur for so many years, and uh,
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  it's it's a great atmosphere that who knows some collaborations can you know happened?
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  The ideas and stuff, and it's it's great. It's very fertile, you
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  know, situations really to know people and to meet your idols and et cetera.
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  You know, it's it's great. So I can wait really to to
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  be there, you know soon. Have you touched on it a little bit?
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  Bright? But you guys are making your way out here. All you
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  have performed and such studying free Mail on November the twenty sixth, I think
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  an Adelaide in Melbourne and you play you a lot the tour in Brisbane on
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  the seventh and four. So what are fans of the side shows? Can
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  you get that you might not be able to do it the festival shows.
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  Yeah, festival shows we have like a shorter time, I don't know,
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  around forty forty five minutes or so something like that. And on the side
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  shows we have our headline show, you know, so we we can play
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  our complete show the way we are presenting everywhere in the world, you know,
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  and so we have a little more time to play newer and older songs
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  of course, you know. So it's gonna be a more complete set list
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  for the fans. But on the festival we're gonna represent of course, the
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  whole history. We're gonna play new songs and a few classics, and it's
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  gonna be very well represented what tapp Tour is all about. And we're very
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  accustomed to do that, you know, especially in Europe when we do the
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  festival run, we have like all types of different set times and stuff,
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  so we're very were accustomed to build. We have like kind of a spine,
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  you know, of the sett list that we are changing according to our
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  limitations. But we're prepared. It's going to be a beautiful celebration for sure.
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  Decider, Like, you haven't been Atlustra since threeenty and eighteen, So
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  what's changed with the band since last time here? Area? Wow? I
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  mean, uh, I think we're better. I mean, uh, you
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  know, we have a better album in my concert Quadra. It's actually it's
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  a continuation for Machine Messiah. You know. The Machine Messiah was an amazing
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  tour, an amazing album that really opened new doors for Sepultura and Quadra was
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  one of them of those doors you know that we were inspired by to continue
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  some ideas that we didn't finish on Machine Messiah. We used the same producer,
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  the same studio, Gains Bogren in Sweden, stuff, you know.
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  So uh, it was a very natural, you know, evolution of everything.
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  So it's it's a very special album for us that we're very happy,
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  you know that finally we're here able to present it live, you know.
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  Ye. Now I want to go back in time a bit, right if
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  we kind of like back to nineteen eighty seven when you first joined the band.
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  Like I was talking with the boys that I'm here with this morning,
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  and I mentioned the story of how you started as a writing for Match and
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  then got into the band, Like I've never heard that before. Can you
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  tell us that story when I joined Sepultura. Yeah, yeah, I mean
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  I wasn't a time that was really you know, I didn't know what to
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  do with my life. I wasn't you know, I'm not good in school
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  at the time, didn't have a girlfriend, didn't have a band, you
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  know, I just the band that I was with my friends. Everybody split
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  and stuff. So when I met the Sepultura guys, I felt that they
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  had the same wish or the same goal really to make it happen, you
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  know. And uh soon I after I met them, Giro, the guitar
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  player left, the guitar player who recorded the first two albums, you know,
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  he left, and I was there really looking for some you know,
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  bands, some some people really to to continue my my dream, you know,
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  to play music, to be a professional and et cetera. And I
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  went to Bello arizoni with the hometown of Sura, for vacation, you know,
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  and to I went to the Sepultura's rehearsal. I jammed a lot with
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  Egor. We we we got a immediate connection, you know, when we
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  picked up our instruments. We played The Creator, we played Destruction and Slayer,
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  you know, covers like that, and and it was amazing, you
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  know, it felt like we we knew each other for a long time.
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  And and a month later I was in the band because the guitar player left,
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  Giro left, and and I was there. I moved to bellar Rizone
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  and you know, they were looking for guitar player. I was looking for
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  a band, and you know it was a perfect time for both of us,
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  and and you know here we are several the has been around for nearly
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  forty years. Bright, So how would you say the band's sound has changed
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  and growing your Korea? Oh dude, they changed a lot. I mean
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  it's still changing. I mean that's the beauty of why. That's why we
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  put a new album out, you know, a new album, new music.
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  I mean, it's kind of pathetic that try to copy what we did
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  two or three or five years ago. You know. Of course we have
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  the influence of everything we did, especially on Quadra since the very first album.
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  The trash elements, the percussion and the groups parts, the more progressive
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  sounds of machine messiah and melodic sounds and orchestral instruments and stuff. Everything is
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  there on Quadra, you know. But we're doing with the twist of today,
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  you know, exploring the possibilities of having Loi Kazagrandian drums, which the
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  best drummer in the world, you know, So it opened the possibility to
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  write better, to write more technical stuff. We are better musicians now,
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  you know, because we never stopped growing, i mean learning and really interested
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  in new songs or I still study music every day. You know, I
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  love classical guitar. I still study classical guitar as much as I can.
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  You know, of course, guitar playing, I play with different styles of
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  music. I love the blues. I love to play Brazilian popular music with
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  different musicians and that keeps, you know, influences and ideas flowing, always
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  new ideas and new wishes and possibilities, you know. So I think music
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  it's great because you can keep doing that forever. I mean, you see
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  Rolling Stones and Paul McCartney eighty plus some years old, like three hours on
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  stage having the time of their life. Blues players that go there with ninety
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  five Bloody Guy for instance, you know, still jamming around the world,
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  and that's so inspirational for a musician. You know, we can keep doing
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  that forever until we die, and that's the beautiful not every profession. You
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  know, you have the possibility to do that, you know, So it's
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  great. It us very motivated to keep going, you know, it's amazing.
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  I sort of part of that a little bit bright Like there's been a
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  lot of changes in the music industry over the forty years. You guys have
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  been around, so as a bad if you ever tried to change with the
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  times. I guess sort of most aachia in path and explort within yourselves.
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  No, I think we absorb everything. You know. It's kind of uh
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  stupid to ignore. I mean, Sepultura survived. If you put together the
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  forty years of Sepultura's life, dude, just put together all the technology,
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  technology changes, you know, from vinyl to CD CD to downlow computers,
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  mobile phones and Spotify and Napster, and everything's happened during this forty years,
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  you know, so quick, everything's so many information, and we still are
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  going through a transitional phase. You know, everything is happening. A lot
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  of different ways of selling albums came out of it, you know, the
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  lockdown, the pandemic situation, and we're still here because we learn how to
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  deal with the present and with the elements we have in our hands. It's
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  kind of stupid not try to work something that is not there anymore, you
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  know. So with the lockdown situation was like that we were ready to go
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  on tour. Quadra was just released in February. In March, the word
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  stopped, and then we move our energy and focus to the sepu Quarta stuff.
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  We start working at home every Wednesday. We have a connection with our
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  fans, with jam our music, and an album came out out of it,
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  you know. So we kept working, but in a different frame,
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  in a different energy. So we waited two years to finally start the tour
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  in twenty twenty two, you know. So here we are on the second
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  ear of the Quadra tour and it felt great because we respect, you know,
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  the changes that it's not us. I mean, it's not up to
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  us. Well, I mean, the pandemic situation. Nobody choses that.
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  I mean, we have to deal with it right, And that's how it's
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  life. If you have this idea that you control everything in your life,
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  I mean that's an illusion, you know. So I mean we learn how
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  to deal with the present and with the elements we have in our hands,
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  and that's how we grow, you know, and we feel better than ever
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  before letting go right. We've got reading Spotify playlists when we started with Heavy,
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  just to let people get to know the bands a bit more. So
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  heresn several shorter songs. Can you please give us a song for a pilist
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  to get the party started, one for a pilist to save your marriage,
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  and one for a list that could potentially end your marriage to say, my
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  marriage. Wow, that's a Western I didn't expect. I don't know.
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  To save the marriage, we could put like I don't know, the agony
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  of defeat, you know, just to you know, not to get to
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  that point in the marriage, you know, situation, not to feel defeated,
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  but you know, to to move ahead and face the challenges and and
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  build something together with your partner, you know. And I think that song
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  it's really powerful, not only lyric wise but music wise, you know.
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  And to end our marriage maybe I don't know. A fast, brutal song
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  could be. I don't know, a very dirty song from roots, like
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  spit for instance, not split spit, Yeah, splits can split. Then
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  how about one to get the party started, brand the party started hatamahata of
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  course. Yeah beautiful. All right, Well, thanks very much for your
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  time today, Rover in an absolutely pleasure speaking with your Sepul tour will be
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  here, he said, the first, second and third for good things and
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  from November twenty sixth the sideshows. So check out all your socials to find
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  out where to go, and we'll see you in Brisbane, brother, amazing
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  man. Thank you very much, see you soon.