Live Nation Brasil has confirmed that SEPULTURA's final concert — November 7 in São Paulo — has been moved from the Mercado Livre Arena Pacaembu, which holds around 26,000, to the Suhai Music Hall, which holds a little over 9,000. Tickets already bought remain valid at the new venue, and anyone who cannot attend there may request a refund. The support bill is unchanged: KRISIUN, SACRED REICH and METAL ALLEGIANCE all still play.
The move costs the night some of its symbolism. The stadium previously known simply as the Pacaembu reopened in January 2025 under its current corporate name, with capacity cut to 26,000 and the famous "Tobogã" terrace demolished. It carries real weight in SEPULTURA's story: the band's association with the site goes back to the early 1990s and above all to the concert at Praça Charles Miller, the square directly in front of the stadium, that helped cement their standing at home.
What is planned has not changed. Rather than a straight farewell gig, the evening is being built as a celebration of four decades, pulling in the eras and the musicians who passed through the band. METAL ALLEGIANCE brings Mike Portnoy of DREAM THEATER, Alex Skolnick and Chuck Billy of TESTAMENT, Phil Demmel, formerly of MACHINE HEAD, Troy Sanders of MASTODON and founder/bassist Mark Menghi. Brazilian death metal institution KRISIUN and American thrash band SACRED REICH fill out the bill, and former members are expected to appear, among them Jean Dolabella and Jairo Guedz, the guitarist who preceded Andreas Kisser in the lineup.
Kisser, for his part, refuses to call the ending permanent. Asked recently by Jaimunji of Metal On Tap whether he would rule out a reunion show some years after the farewell tour ends, he said: "Dude, I don't rule anything out. It's irrelevant to say if [the retirement is] gonna be forever or we gonna be back. The important thing is that we're gonna stop now. We need that rest, because we organize everything around that. We need our time — we need time to look in a different direction." He added: "SEPULTURA is not gonna die. I don't think we have the power to do eight farewell tours, but who knows?"
The live album the band has been assembling is also still coming, though not this year. The plan is 40 songs recorded in 40 different cities; every show since drummer Greyson Nekrutman joined in early 2024 has been taped. "We like to take our time as well to do something really special, like vinyl, like old-school KISS 'Alive II' type of vibe, with the photos and stuff like that," Kisser said. "Very organic and going to the opposite direction of showing everything on the Internet."
Formed in Belo Horizonte in 1984, SEPULTURA redrew the boundaries of heavy metal with "Beneath The Remains", "Arise", "Chaos A.D." and "Roots", and opened doors worldwide for Brazilian heavy music. The farewell tour began on March 1, 2024 at Arena Hall in Belo Horizonte.