With their farewell tour still raging across the globe, Brazilian metal icons Sepultura are preparing one final gift for fans: a brand-new four-song EP, set for release in 2026.
The forthcoming effort will mark the first recorded output with drummer Greyson Nekrutman, who joined the band in 2024 following the sudden departure of longtime percussionist Eloy Casagrande to Slipknot.
In a new interview conducted at this year’s Mystic Festival, guitarist Andreas Kisser revealed the project: “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.”
Kisser went on to explain that the new material was put together in a relaxed, exploratory way: “…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.”
As for that final Sepultura show, guitarist Andreas Kisser would still love it if former frontman Max Cavalera and former drummer Igor Cavalera could be there. Kisser previously invited the Cavalera brothers to come jam at the final show, though Max has made it clear that he has zero intention of doing so.
Still, Kisser said in a recent interview with Reality Check TV that he hopes the Cavalera brothers and other former members can come out and make one final appearance with Sepultura.
“I hope so. The idea is to do a very last show [in 2026] in São Paulo, Brazil, where we have all the guests, friends to celebrate our history,” said Kisser. “There’s no reason to be fighting. We just go on stage, enjoy ourselves. We know how to play the songs. It’s gonna be a party for the fans. Forty years of history, it’s a lot — many albums, many different changes and different styles of music. And it’s gonna be an amazing party — I hope so — and hopefully everybody will be a part [of it].”
When asked in a 2024 interview with Metal Injection, Max Cavalera said the only reunion that mattered to him was one with Igor. Which has been happening quite extensively as the Cavalera brothers revisit their early Sepultura material.
“The more the time passes by, the more I feel that I don’t need to. Like I said, the real reunion is between myself and Igor, and I did that,” said Max. “It’s pure magic and amazing what we’re doing right now. You kind of have to realize if we end up doing a Sepultura reunion, it’s almost like we can’t go back to the Cavalera thing, You know? It won’t really make sense.
“People probably will be like ‘I don’t want to go watch Cavalera if they’re doing a ‘real’ reunion.’ To me, I don’t want to do that because I love what we have here in Cavalera now. It’s so bad ass. So yeah, it’s definitely out of the question. You can ask Igor the same question. He doesn’t want to do it either. I think people can just give up, it’s not gonna happen man. It’s not gonna happen.”
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