ANDREAS KISSER Says He Will Continue Making Music After SEPULTURA’s Farewell Tour

In a recent interview with Jarek Szubrycht at Poland’s Mystic Festival, SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser was asked how he plans to spend his time after the band wraps up its farewell tour.

“Since I joined SEPULTURA in ’87, we never stopped — never,” Andreas said (as transcribed by Blabbermouth). “Even on the lockdown, we created an album. When we changed singers and managers and stuff, we were always rehearsing, we were always working towards the future and et cetera. And it feels like it’s a good momentum because we’re still young enough to be motivated to start something else from scratch. Of course, I’ll be involved with music. That’s what I do, I love to do. I’m not gonna quit SEPULTURA to sell cars or something like that. I’m gonna keep doing music. I still study music and et cetera.

“I’m not really concerned too much about future,” he continued. “Like I said, we have another two years of this touring. I like to enjoy the moment, like we are doing here. Every show has been amazing. It’s a fantastic feeling. I have so many different options. I already have another band called DE LA TIERRA. I have a radio show in São Paulo with my son for 13 years now. And I have some parallel things that I already do that I might have more time, really, to dedicate to those. And I also wanna do a guitar lesson, finally a video talking about my style, SEPULTURA‘s music, acoustic guitar and stuff, to put more time on that and really do that. A lot of people ask for that as well, so I wanna really have more time to do this. And I know so many musicians, so many bands. I’m really talking to people, ‘Oh, let’s do this, let’s do that.’ I have an idea to do a reggae project with Derrick [Green, SEPULTURA frontman]. Who knows? [Laughs] I like to keep it open. I mean, it’s a little scary, but at the same time it’s very exciting to feel that freedom that we could really express and really see what happens. I think that’s why we are stopping — to get away of the comfort zone, to get away [and] artistically having different air to breathe.”

In an interview with Metal Hammer Germany earlier this year, Kisser talked about SEPULTURA’s farewell tour. Asked about the location of the band’s final show, he said: “We are planning to do a very big show in São Paulo, Brazil, or in Belo Horizonte. We’re still balancing these ideas. But at the end of 2026, we’d like to do this last show. We’d like to stretch [out the tour]. There’s no reason for us to stop in a hurry just because we announced [the] last [tour] two years ago or so.

“We had a great time last year. This year is already looking great…. We’re doing Lollapalooza in South America — Brazil, Argentina and Chile. We have a few shows in Central America, a few festivals this year in Europe, a few special concerts. In 2026 we’d like to do all the big festivals and finish in Brazil.”

SEPULTURA began its farewell tour on March 1, 2024, at Arena Hall in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The sold-out concert marked the band’s first performance with drummer Greyson Nekrutman, formerly of SUICIDAL TENDENCIES.