SEPULTURA's DERRICK GREEN Says Drummer Changes Have Helped Band Stay Focused On Music

Dominic of the program "Moshpit" on SYN 90.7 in Melbourne, Australia recently conducted an interview with vocalist Derrick Green of Brazilian/American metallers SEPULTURA. You can now listen to the chat in the YouTube clip below.

Asked if all the drummer changes in the last ten years have affected SEPULTURA on a personal and creative level, Derrick responded: "[It's] definitely [affected us] creatively. We had to really pull together and stay focused on the music and the fact that there were so many different changes. I think in a lot of ways it's really helped us evolve. We've been fortunate enough to have incredible people that were artists that we played with, and so this helps a lot. So we've been able to create, I think, quality albums and actually have been evolving. But we're at a point now, in a very good phase, we're very strong and very well connected, along with a [recod label] label [Nuclear Blast] that's behind us, which helps tremendously. And I think it's gone in a way where it's helped us to stay focused, like I said, with the music, which is the most important thing, and try to forget all the drama that does happen around in this scene.But [it's really helped us] just stay focused on what's important and what we love to do."

Regarding how SEPULTURA keeps a balance and a connection between the music it is creating today and the band's early records, Derrick said: "It's certainly a different band [today] and [these are] extremely different times [to what they were 30 years ago]. The biggest difference is definitely that, with time, the music and everything is changing, the music scene, but people are changing [as well]. I mean, the band has 30 years [of history], so I would think, as an artist, you would be a failure to be exactly the same after 30 years [laughs] and not have any change. I think you wouldn't be an artist. Being an artist is about evolving and having change and expressing that. So I think it's been an incredible road that SEPULTURA has had, and I think it's very unique and very special."

SEPULTURA's latest album, "The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart" sold around 1,800 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD came out on October 29, 2013 via Nuclear Blast Records.