SEPULTURA announces 'Final' European concert
26-11-2025
SEPULTURA have announced their biggest Irish headline show in the 3Arena on Sunday, August 9, 2026 as part of their “Celebrating Life Through Death” farewell tour. They will be joined on the night by very special guests BIOHAZARD, MALEVOLENCE, SACRED REICH and CRYPTA.
SEPULTURA comments: “Dublin! We couldn’t think of a better place to play our final ever European show than your beautiful city and to be joined by our friends in BIOHAZARD, MALEVOLENCE, SACRED REICH and CRYPTA will make this an event not to be missed. See you next August!”
With their latest opus, “Quadra”, an album that made a triumphant entry at No. 5 on the German chart and garnered over seventeen million streams on Spotify, the band originally hailing from Belo Horizonte has once again spread the colors and rhythms of Brazil worldwide. However, in late 2023, they announced their plan to unite their forces for one final, powerful farewell tour, bidding adieu to a 40-year existence.
For this final journey, SEPULTURA has enlisted the prodigious 23-year-old American virtuoso Greyson Nekrutman as their new drummer and together, this quartet has embarked on multiple tours across North America, Europe and Latin America, presenting a career-spanning set to their fans that honored the forty years of SEPULTURA. Yet their journey has not reached the final end yet and their farewell tour will see them celebrate their legacy on several continents until 2026.
To date, the band has unleashed fifteen studio albums upon the world, having sold over three million units in the United States and 20 million worldwide, thus earning multiple gold and platinum records in various corners of the globe, including France, Australia, Indonesia, Cyprus, and their home country. To this day, their album “Roots” has been streamed 225 million times on Spotify.
In an interview with Reality Check TV conducted on January 24 at this year’s NAMM convention in Anaheim, California, SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser was once again asked about the possibility of reuniting with original frontman Max Cavalera and drummer Igor “Iggor” Cavalera for a final show to cap off the band’s ongoing farewell tour. He said: “I hope so. The idea is to do a very last show (in 2026) in São Paulo, Brazil, where we have all the guests, friends to celebrate our history.”
He continued: “There’s no reason to be fighting. We just go on stage, enjoy ourselves. We know how to play the songs. It’s gonna be a party for the fans. Forty years of history, it’s a lot — many albums, many different changes and different styles of music. And it’s gonna be an amazing party — I hope so — and hopefully everybody will be a part (of it).”
Asked in an interview with Germany’s Moshpit Passion last year how the recordings for the live album are coming along, SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser said: “Yeah, great. We were able to record every show since we started. Even with (former SEPULTURA drummer) Eloy (Casagrande), we were recording a lot of the material. But when Greyson (Nekrutman) came into the band in March this year — the first show was on March 1st in Brazil, this 40-year celebration — of course when you have a new drummer, you have a new chemistry going on. It’s still a little time to get better. Now we are in a very good position, because we played a lot in Brazil, we played Latin America, we did two shows in South Korea, we did the United States, Canada. Now we’re here in Europe. We go back to Brazil to finish with another five dates, the year, and we are recording everything. It’s great. We didn’t yet stop and start really to pick stuff because the idea is to put out 40 songs recorded in 40 different cities. So it’s a big challenge, but, yeah, we are able to go to so many different cities and stuff. And I think we’re gonna have a better idea when it’s gonna come out and how it’s gonna come out maybe early next year.”
Asked if SEPULTURA‘s final show will also be included in the package, Andreas said: “Who knows? Everything is possible. We did three big shows in São Paulo (Brazil) before we went to the States. And we recorded the whole show — the cameras, DVD and stuff. Of course, this stuff that we’re recording for the live album is audio only. And we are planning to have the last farewell show in São Paulo in 2026, so we like to go places, we like to visit places that we’ve never been before. We like to do our goodbye in a relaxed mood — no hurry. There’s no reason really to rush anything. We are enjoying the moment so much. We are celebrating the momentum. It’s fantastic. It’s amazing. So it’s something that is gonna be on the recording as well, this great vibe, the connection we have with the crowd and stuff. But, yeah, everything is possible. I mean, of course, the last show, (it) would be great to have a register. We like to invite all the ex-members, including the brothers, Cavalera brothers. Let’s see what happens. We’re working towards that, to have a big celebration for the fans.”
Acknowledging the fact that SEPULTURA had an acrimonious split with Max Cavalera nearly 30 years ago, Andreas said: “We don’t care who is right or wrong. We’re never gonna get to that point. (Laughs) We have different point of views and different perspectives about same historical events and stuff. So let’s jam, let’s have a good time for the fans, for us, for ourselves, and really close this amazing 43 years or 44, whatever it’s gonna be at the time, in peace with ourselves, and really reach for something different afterwards. At least in my point of view, I like to, of course, continue with music and everything, but maybe do something different. Who knows?”
SEPULTURA kicked off the North American leg of the massive “Celebrating Life Through Death” farewell tour on September 17 at the Concord Music Hall in Chicago, Illinois. The band played a career-spanning set that honors SEPULTURA‘s 40 years of existence. Joining SEPULTURA on this tour were Florida-based death metal veterans OBITUARY, iconic New York hardcore pioneers AGNOSTIC FRONT, and São Paulo, Brazil’s death/thrash metallers CLAUSTROFOBIA.
SEPULTURA fell apart in 1996 with the exit of Max after the rest of the Brazilian four-piece split with the vocalist/guitarist’s wife Gloria as their manager. Max‘s brother, drummer Igor “Iggor” Cavalera stuck around with the group for another ten years before leaving SEPULTURA and re-teaming with Max in CAVALERA CONSPIRACY.
Max previously discussed the possibility of a classic SEPULTURA lineup reunion in a February 2023 interview with Thomas S. Orwat, Jr. of Rock Interview Series. He said: “I’m very, very busy right now with all the projects, ’cause I’ve got so many — SOULFLY being my main band, but also GO AHEAD AND DIE with my son Igor, and KILLER BE KILLED. And I’m already playing a lot of the old stuff with my brother; that, to me, right there, it fills the void anyway.
“So, yeah, I don’t think about that at all,” Max said in regard to a SEPULTURA reunion. “At this moment, I don’t need to do anything like that. I think at this moment I’m so busy with the stuff that I have in front of me, and the fans love all the stuff that I’ve been doing anyway. There’s no point, really. ‘Cause I haven’t even thought of that idea in a long time. But I think that my main thing right now is SOULFLY… And I love the fact that SOULFLY just keeps getting stronger and stronger with every record. And I look forward to the time to write the next one. It’ll be another challenge and another chance to make something good again.”
In the summer of 2022, Igor told the “Mike Nelson Show” about the possibility of him and Max returning to SEPULTURA: “I have to be honest with you, man. The reunion, in my opinion, it’s me and my brother — that’s the person that I wanna be united with. So, for me, if the other stuff, it doesn’t happen, I can’t really be too bummed about it. Of course, it would be amazing, but the real reunion for me is just me and my brother being together. That’s what makes me happy.”
Although SEPULTURA has maintained a diehard fanbase in all parts of the world throughout the band’s nearly four-decade history, Max-era albums “Roots” and “Chaos A.D.” were by far SEPULTURA‘s most commercially successful, having both been certified gold in the U.S. for sales in excess of five hundred thousand copies.