SEPULTURA's farewell tour is getting a document. Guitarist Andreas Kisser has confirmed that the band will release a live album in 2027 built from the run that ended on November 7 at the Suhai Music Hall in São Paulo: 40 songs, each one recorded in a different city.
Kisser laid out the plan to the Brazilian channel Loud Society a few days before the last show. The band has been taping every concert since drummer Greyson Nekrutman joined in early 2024, and the album will focus on the current lineup that includes vocalist Derrick Green and Nekrutman.
Don't expect a concert film to go with it. Kisser said the release will be audio only, "like old school," with photos and booklets, on vinyl and as a box set. The final São Paulo show was filmed, but the band hasn't decided what to do with that footage yet.
The guitarist has described the reference point before: a KISS Alive II-style package, the kind of live record he grew up with alongside MOTÖRHEAD and IRON MAIDEN. As he put it, in Brazil at the time there were hardly any big concerts, so the only way to be at one was to put on headphones and imagine it. He sees a physical, organic release as a deliberate step away from putting everything on the internet — and he's taking his time with it, saying the band wanted to finish the tour first and then do something special.
The farewell run opened on March 1, 2024 at Arena Hall in Belo Horizonte, the city where SEPULTURA formed in 1984, and covered more than two and a half years of touring worldwide. The closing night in São Paulo was moved in September from the roughly 26,000-capacity Pacaembu stadium to the 9,000-capacity Suhai Music Hall, and brought back guests from across the band's history, including original guitarist Jairo Guedz, who played on Bestial Devastation and Morbid Visions before Kisser replaced him in 1987, and João Gordo of RATOS DE PORÃO. We covered that night in detail in our report on the final concert.
As for whether "farewell" really means forever, Kisser isn't ruling anything out. In a separate interview with Metal On Tap he said the important thing is that the band stops now and rests, adding that SEPULTURA "is not gonna die" and that the future will be dealt with when it comes.
No title, tracklist or release date has been announced for the live album yet.