SEPULTURA Guitarist: Reunions Are 'Like Trying To Take Back Time'

June 21, 2011

Chris D. of Decibel magazine recently conducted an interview with guitarist Andreas Kisser of Brazilian/American thrashers SEPULTURA. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

Decibel: What were the writing sessions [for the new SEPULTURA album "Kairos"] like?

Andreas Kisser: It was an endless fountain. We had so many ideas, but SEPULTURA does have a certain way of writing. It's very natural. We just like to have our instruments in-hand, jam, and play. We were influenced by ourselves. There's 26 years of SEPULTURA history to pull from. For the last two records we used books, "The Divine Comedy" and "Clockwork Orange", to inspire us. Now, it's more like you're ready our own biography. We talk about our families, experiences on stage, travelling, our relationships with labels, managers, press, and the media. It's more of an intimate album. We wanted to focus on things. Like each song. Each song has a purpose. We write new songs all the time, but we worked on the best songs. We didn't want to get lost in our own productivity, you know?

Decibel: Do you ever wonder where the riffs come from these days?

Andreas Kisser: Well, life itself. So many things you learn everything. I'm a father. I have three kids. I've been married for more than 20 years. That's a whole new experience. Music comes from everywhere. SEPULTURA worked on extracting music from books, so extracting music from life is more challenging. You have a tendency to create new things, instead of sounding like SLAYER, Yes or PINK FLOYD. We challenged ourselves to produce sounds from our feelings. Music is an expression of our feelings. SEPULTURA's feelings. I mean, we didn't want to lose the heaviness and lose the musicality of the songs. We wanted balance.

Decibel: Reunions are very popular now. Any chance of reuniting with [brothers] Max and Igor [Cavalera]?

Andreas Kisser: Yeah, it's not a possibility at all. We're so far away from that. Reunions are a weird situation. It's like trying to take back time. It's stupid. It's like you're shaking the last cent in your pocket. It's not music. I'm much more interested in growing up and living for today. SEPULTURA 2011. I want to build from now not then.

Read the entire interview from Decibel magazine.

Photo credit: Alex Solca

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