Sepultura to Release Four Song EP Next Year, Hopefully

We’ve got good news. Well, Sepultura has the good news, but it’s something to celebrate nonetheless. They’ve been on their farewell run for for a while now and they’ve still got many more places to go, but in a new interview with Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser and Jarek Szubrycht at the Mystic Festival in Gdańsk, Poland, Kisser shares some tidbits on the band’s newest member, new music and more on the grand farewell. You can watch the interview in full below.

He was asked to speak on the band’s decision to release new music, especially with their current touring drummer Greyson Nekrutman, who replaced their longtime drummer Eloy Casagrande back in February 2024. Here’s his response, as transcribed by Blabbermouth.net:

“We recorded four new songs with Greyson on drums. I don’t think nobody knows that, but there we go. We have four new songs, and we have the intention, next year, to release an EP, just to celebrate this momentum. It’s original songs that we worked [out]. It’s already recorded and everything, and we’re taking our time, really, to see where it’s gonna be the good time to do it.”

Apparently the whole thing happened out of nowhere, since Kisser said they really just fell into the process naturally while playing on a cruise:

“It was very spontaneous. We had a situation that we played the 70000 Tons Of Metal [cruise in January 2025] and we stayed in Miami. ‘We have this studio. We have a few ideas. Okay, let’s do it.’ [Laughs] And it was great. No pressure from labels, no due date. The songs [don’t] even have [names] yet. [Laughs] But it’s great… We did it in our time with no rush. There’s no names [for the songs]. We can decide that later. We’re still mixing the material — no rush. And it’s great. Because of the farewell [tour] idea, we can do that as well, to plan something like that, or not plan something like that, plan as less that we can to really to challenge ourselves artistically to work something like that.”

Also, when it comes to what their final final show will look like, Kisser’s got some big plans:

“The idea is to do it around October 2026 in São Paulo, Brazil. A big Sepul-fest type of show, a party with bands that are important. And as a part of Sepultura’s history, we like to invite every member that was a part of Sepultura, including the Cavalera brothers [Max and Igor], to be a part of the concert, to play, to jam. I mean, it’s totally irrelevant to discuss the past, who is right, who is wrong. We’re never gonna get to a point — we’re gonna have two different views of it, and that’s fine. This is irrelevant. Let’s jam for the fans, to ourselves, to our families [who had] never seen us together. But not only them — Jairo [Guedz], Eloy Casagrande, Jean Patton and Roy Mayorga, musicians that were a part of Sepultura in very specific and important moments that kept Sepultura flowing and going regardless of our problems and our challenges that we had. So hopefully that will happen. They are gonna be invited. If you wanna be a part of this party, you are welcome. If not, that’s fine.”

Sepultura’s farewell tour started on March 1, 2024 at the Arena Hall in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. It was their first show with Nekrutman (ex-Suicidal Tendencies), and it seems like he’s here to stay.

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