Sepultura Posts New Year Update

Brazilian thrash metal legends Sepultura recently posted a new online message which details some of their plans for 2011. The posting reads as follows:

"Hello Sepultura fans! Happy New Year!

"This is going to be one busy year for the band. Next week the guys fly to USA to visit NAMM and to play a couple shows in California. Special-limited-edition-supercool-exclusive-tshirts on sale on both shows.

"Then, we fly back to Brazil to start recording the new album on January 20th at Trama Studios in São Paulo." (Read More)

Max Cavalera Interviewed by Revolver Magazine

Revolver Magazine's Cody Thomas recently conducted an interview with guitarist Max Cavalera (Sepultura, Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy). Some excerpts from the interview can be viewed below:

Revolver: A few years ago, you reunited with [your brother and former Sepultura bandmate] Igor to form the Cavalera Conspiracy. You two have a new album, Blunt Force Trauma, coming out in March. Is it as straightforward as the last album?

Cavalera: Yeah, it's even more. Marc [Rizzo, guitar] was saying, "Some of this shit sounds like Cannibal Corpse." Igor's playing really good. His playing reminds me of when he was in Sepultura, top form. Like in Arise or Beneath the Remains, and he was going super-fast and just killer energy from the drums. We wanted to make shorter songs, so a lot of the songs are a-minute-and-a-half or two-minutes long and kind of feel like "Raining Blood" a little bit when you listen to them, which is also different for us. We had one guest song with Roger [Miret] from Agnostic Front. He sings in a song called "Lynch Mob." I think he's probably my favorite vocalist out of the whole New York hardcore era.

Revolver: Since we're talking about Sepultura, what influenced the beginning of that band?

Cavalera: There was a band in Brazil that made us really want to get serious about starting a band. They were called Dorsal Atlântica and they were like the Brazilian Venom. Really heavy, super-Satanic, painted faces, inverted crosses in their forehead and shit. Just crazy shit live. And we were like, "Dude, we've got to get like those guys. Those guys are brutal." That was one of the inspirations that made me go, "If they are Brazilian and they are doing it, then we can do it." (Read More)

Andreas Kisser's Solo Debut Nominated for Latin Grammy

Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser's latest solo album, Hubris I & II, had earned him a Latin Grammy nod. Kisser is one of the nominees for the Best Brazilian Rock Album category at this year's Latin Grammys - an event which will be held on November 11 and will air live from Las Vegas via the Univision Network.

The list of nominees in the Best Brazilian Rock Album category is as follows:

Hubris I & II - Andreas Kisser
Camisa 10 Joga Bola Até Na Chuva - Charlie Brown Jr.
Das Kapital - Capital Inicial
Vivo Na Cena - Nasi
Sete Chaves - Nxzero

Hubris I & II was released as a two-disc set on June 2009 via Holland's Mascot Records. The album was a self-produced effort and was recorded in part at A Voz do Brasil studio in São Paulo, Brazil. (Read More)

Sepultura Writing New Material on the Road

Phoenix Radio's Miss Bomb recently conducted an interview with guitarist Andreas Kisser of Sepultura for The Bombshell Rock Show. The chat is scheduled to air on Thursday, August 5 and Thursday, August 12 at 9:00 PM in the U.K. at www.phoenixradio.co.uk.

Sepultura are currently on the road promoting A-Lex - their latest album which is based on the 1962 Anthony Burgess classic A Clockwork Orange. The band have apparently begun to write new material for a follow-up release in 2011 via their new record label, Nuclear Blast Records.

"It's always a challenge to write something, you know, and we are in this moment now because we are preparing a new album," stated Kisser during the interview for Bombshell. (Read More)

Sepultura Signs with Nuclear Blast Records

Sepultra have officially signed a new deal with Nuclear Blast Records.

Guitarist Andreas Kisser commented on the band's label move saying, "We are happy to be at Nuclear Blast, especially in the year we are celebrating 25 years of history, and it is a great honor for us to join forces with the most metal label in the world. I am sure this will be a great journey for both of us and we are already working on new material while on the road. Let's go for another 25 years!" (Read More)

New Interview with Andreas Kisser

Sonic Excess recently conducted an interview with Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser. The interview touches on a number of topics, including the band's eleventh studio album, A-Lex. (Read More)