Andreas Kisser Says Cavalera Brothers’ Re-Recorded Sepultura Albums “Disrespectful”
Over the last year or so, Max and Igor Cavalera have been re-recording old Sepultura releases like Morbid Visions, Bestial Devastation, and Schizophrenia in a bid to make them fall more in line with how they envisioned those tunes. It’s a self-indulgent project, for sure, but at least one member of Sepultura proper has taken umbrage with the entire practice.
During an interview with IMPACT Metal Channel, Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser was asked how he felt about the Cavaleras’ efforts and let’s just say he didn’t mince any words.
“I don’t think anything. I mean, it’s a weird choice that they had. I think artistic value is zero. Maybe they’re going for some money or something, but there’s no reason to do something like that. I much rather prefer The Troops of Doom, the new band from Jairo [former Sepultura guitarist Jairo ‘Tormentor’ Guedz], which are doing a really amazing tribute to that era, very honest, doing new stuff, writing new music… But if they’re having a good time, so let it be. I don’t care, man. I just think it’s totally unnecessary. It’s really very disrespectful from themselves, for their own selves in the past.”
Zero artistic value. Disrespectful. Sure, he says he’s willing to “let it be,” but it really seems like Kisser has some deep feelings about the re-recordings.
Kisser added a short time later that he found it odd that Max Cavalera would even want to rehash such old material in the first place.
“It’s weird to see a guy [Max] who always says, ‘Oh, I did this,’ ‘I did all that,’ ‘I’m so creative,’ and ‘I did everything by myself,’ and doing this shit, like re-recording riffs that we did 30, 40 years ago. It doesn’t click, the rhetoric with the example. But whatever. I just don’t think that — the artistic value is zero.”
A little further into the interview, Kisser said that even though Sepultura was calling it quits, they wer still working on new material featuring their new drummer Greyson Nekrutman.
“Yes, we’re working on new songs, actually, with [new SEPULTURA drummer] Greyson [Nekrutman]. We have an amazing chemistry. He’s an amazing musician, an amazing guy. We’re gonna put together, with the live album that we are recording, every show. The idea is to put together 40 songs in 40 different cities around the world. And together we’re gonna have four songs, new songs with Greyson, in this big package. So, yeah, we’re working on it. But we don’t have anything old, hidden or something. [SEPULTURA’s former record label] Roadrunner put it out already, everything [laughs], that we have in the vaults there.”
These latest comments are particularly interesting, given the fact that it was Kisser that said he’d love for the Cavalera brothers to “jam” with Sepultura before they hang it up for good.
