ANDREAS KISSER F*CKED-UP THE SEPULTURA REUNION

I don’t like to talk too much smack on Andreas Kisser, because he’s a terrific guitar player and I have no real evidence that he’s a jerk or whatever; I’ve never really seen or heard about him doing anything super-douchey, unless you consider his part in the dissolution of the classic Sepultura line-up super-douchey, which you might. It does seem awfully funny that Max Cavalera left and the band basically never made anything good again, but that really just suggests that Max was the driving creative force behind the Sepulturawesomeness, not necessarily that Andreas Kisser should suck it.

But awhile back there was a rumor that there was gonna be a Sepultureunion, and now Max has told AltSounds that it almost happened – except a certain guitar player ended up mucking up the works:

It almost happened last year; I actually called Andreas myself and talked to him about it because I wanna do it, and I said ‘we should do it man, it’s the time’, and he said ‘let’s do it’. The next thing I know he has all these crazy demands, involving all these people that work for them and having him be the boss of everything, and I said ‘that’s not how it’s gonna be if it’s gonna happen’, and he started talking a lot about money and shit like that so I backed off. It’s not about the money, it’s about the name of the band and showing people what we were about when we were together, so now I’m not so sure. I don’t know if it’s gonna happen, I’m not worried about it, I think once people hear the new Cavalera Conspiracy album they are going to forget about the reunion, because it’s really powerful stuff.

While it’s silly of Max to say “it’s not about the money” when we all know it would be at least a little bit about the money, to be honest, I don’t need to hear the new Cavalera Conspiracy album to forget about the reunion – ’cause I basically forgot about the reunion after the first Cavalera Conspiracy album. Yes, it would be pretty cool to see the Cavaleras share a stage with Kisser and Paulo Jr. again, but Inflikted sounded exactly the way I’d want a modern Sep album to sound, which is to say, it sounded more like old Sep than anything that band or Soulfly have recorded in the post-Chaos A.D. era.

So, on the one hand, if Andreas Kisser is happier making forgettable albums about A Clockwork Orange than he is doing something anyone cares about, well, someone who smack him upside the head so he gets his shit straight. On the other hand, as long as 50% of the old Sepultura is making albums that sound like the old Sepultura, then I don’t really need the old Sepultura back. Old Sepultura.

-AR

Thanks to Tom Fassnidge  for the tip.