Max Cavalera left Sepultura in 1997
Andreas Kisser, guitarist for Sepultura, gave an interview to Basel Anabtawi, a podcaster in Dubai.
Asked what Sepultura was looking for when replacing former vocalist Max Cavalera, Andreas said: “One thing we knew for sure [was] that we didn’t want a clone of Max Cavalera – someone who looked like him or sounded like him. There were hundreds of people who wanted that… Because we opened up the possibility of them sending us material and we talked to a lot of friends, we met a lot of different people. We wanted to do something new with someone new. And it took a year, after Max left the band, to find [current SEPULTURA frontman] Derrick [Green], because we took our time.”
Andreas added: “Derrick has been with us for over 20 years – it’s fantastic. And his vocals have grown so much, his stage presence, everything. And in the end, I think you have to respect and live in the present and not try to reproduce what happened before. We greatly respect our past. In fact, we have the film 'Sepultura Endurance', which talks about this trajectory, our history, and shows why we are here – because we respect it. We respect every idea and every musician and try to take Sepultura to different places instead of trying to recover something we did in the past.”
Sepultura's latest album, Machine Messiah , was released in January 2017 via Nuclear Blast. The album was produced by the band and Jens Bogren of Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden. The cover art was created by Filipino artist Camille Della Rosa.
