Celebrating their 30th year of existence, Brazil’s most esteemed metal band SEPULTURA will be headlining a Metal Injection-sponsored tour that includes German thrashers DESTRUCTION as direct support and American melodic tech-deathsters ARSIS as openers. We can already sense the frenzy in mosh pits across the U.S. and Canada, too.
“It’s going to be an amazing experience to celebrate a 30-year career with the strongest album we’ve ever made in our history,” states SEPULTURA guitarist & songwriter Andreas Kisser about the upcoming 33-show trek and their latest album, The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart. “We are coming back to America and Canada with full force and with a hunger to destroy everything! Can’t wait to perform the songs from the new album on stage! See you all on the road!”
The mayhem begins in Phoenix, Arizona on May 10th and ends on June 14th in Grand Junction, Colorado. SEPULTURA will be performing one solo show on May 9th.
Confirmed “SEPULTURA – 30 Years” tour dates are:
05/09/15 Rock In Rio – Las Vegas, NV*
05/10/15 Joe’s Grotto – Phoenix, AZ
05/11/15 The Whisky – West Hollywood, CA
05/12/15 Ace of Spades – Sacramento, CA
05/13/15 Bossonova Ballroom – Portland, OR
05/14/15 Studio Seven – Seattle, WA
05/15/15 Rickshaw Theater – Vancouver, B.C. – CANADA
05/16/15 Starlite Room – Edmonton, AB – CANADA
05/17/15 Pub Station – Billings, MT
05/19/15 Zoo Cabaret – Winnipeg, MB – CANADA
05/20/15 The Amsterdam – Minneapolis, MN
05/21/15 High Noon Saloon – Madison, WI
05/22/15 Reggie’s – Chicago, IL
05/23/15 Expo Five – Louisville, KY
05/24/15 Centerstage Bar & Grill – Kokomo, IN
05/26/15 The Pyramid Scheme – Grand Rapids, MI
05/28/15 Opera House – Toronto, ON – CANADA
05/29/15 Club Soda – Montreal, QC – CANADA
05/30/15 Webster Hall – New York, NY
05/31/15 Jewel Nightclub – Manchester, NH
06/01/15 Ottobar – Baltimore, MD
06/02/15 The NorVA – Norfolk, VA
06/03/15 Holligans Music Hall – Jacksonville, NC
06/04/15 The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
06/05/15 Culture Room – Fort Lauderdale, FL
06/06/15 Publiq House – New Orleans, LA
06/07/15 BFE Rock Club – Houston, TX
06/08/15 The Rail Club – Fort Worth, TX
06/10/15 Empire Garage – Austin, TX
06/11/15 Cine El Rey – McAllen, TX
06/12/15 Sunshine Theater – Albuquerque, NM
06/13/15 Summit Music Hall – Denver, CO
06/14/15 Mesa Theater – Grand Junction, CO
*SEPULTURA only
The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart was recorded with renowned producer Ross Robinson (KORN, MACHINE HEAD, FEAR FACTORY), who worked with SEPULTURA on their landmark 1996 release Roots, and was co-produced by Steve Evetts (THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, SYMPHONY X, INCANTATION), who previously worked on SEPULTURA’s Roorback (2003), the Revolusongs EP (2002), and Nation (2001).
Legendary Brazilian metal icons SEPULTURA have recently launched the new music video for the track ‘Da Lama Ao Caos’, a Chico Science & Nação Zumbi cover, on the homepage of German Metal Hammer.
Commented guitarist Andreas Kisser:
“Our relationship with Nação Zumbi is very cool. When SEPULTURA was starting to use Brazilian percussion, Chico Science was emerging at the same time, doing almost the opposite. While we were incorporating Brazilian music into the weight of heavy metal, they were adding the weight of rock guitars into the unique sounds of Pernambuco’s regional music. And the song ‘Da Lama Ao Caos’ is an example of that.”
The song is taken from the bands most current and 13th studio album “The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart” that was released on October 25, 2013 via Nuclear Blast.
The video directed by Rafael Kent and the team of Okent Films in co-production with Music&Art, was filmed in one day and explores the plasticity of the aesthetic elements of Pernambucan culture, which is represnted in SEPULTURA’s version of the song.
SEPULTURA have confirmed their second tour in support of their current album “The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart”. The band will play – among several festivals – some countries and towns they have not played on the first tour leg.
SEPULTURA ´s latest album album was released in October 2013 and has been produced together with Ross Robinson who has been involved in their milestone “Roots” already.
One week prior to the release of SEPULTURA‘s new effort “The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must Be the Heart” (October 25), Tarja Virmakari had a chance to interview (for Truemetal.it) the band’s well-established leader Andreas Kisser. The main topic was of course the new album, but Andreas spoke also about the latest news in Sepultura -camp and he was granted the opportunity to respond to the insistent provocative statements of the former frontman Max Cavalera. Andreas revealed also how the former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo got involved with the album, as a guest. To know about this and more, please join the chat below.
To read the interview in Italian, please go to Truemetal.it, HERE.
Recorded with renowned producer Ross Robinson (KORN, MACHINE HEAD, FEAR FACTORY) and co-produced by Steve Evetts (THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, SYMPHONY X, INCANTATION), The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart will be released in North America on October 29th as a jewel-case and as a digi-pak with a bonus “Making Of” DVD. The 2-LP double gatefold green vinyl version will be released on November 12th.
Bundles include an exclusive t-shirt design & can be pre-ordered now from the Nuclear Blast USA Webshop: http://smarturl.it/tmbhahmbth-cddvd
The track listing for TMBHAHMBTH is:
01. Trauma Of War
02. The Vatican
03. Impending Doom
04. Manipulation of Tragedy
05. Tsunami
06. The Bliss Of Ignorants
07. Grief
08. The Age Of The Atheist
09. Obsessed
10. Da Lama Ao Caos (Chico Science & Nação Zumbi cover)
SEPULTURA kicks off their headlining “Tsunami Of Metal” North American tour in Hollywood, California on November 1s with Boston’s UNEARTH, Canada’s KATAKLYSM, Joey Jordison’s SCAR THE MARTYR (select dates), British Columbia’s ANCIIENTS (select dates), and openers DARK SERMON from Florida. The tour wraps up in Austin, Texas on November 24th and SEPULTURA will play a solo show in Tempe, Arizona on November 26th.
“Tsunami Of Metal” North American Tour 2013 dates are:
11/01/13 House Of Blues – Hollywood, CA**
11/02/13 Ramona Mainstage – Ramona, CA**
11/03/13 Regency Ballroom – San Francisco, CA**
11/04/13 Neumos – Seattle, WA**
11/07/13 Skyway Theater – Minneapolis, MN**
11/08/13 Pops Nightclub – Sauget, IL#
11/09/13 Harpo’s – Detroit, MI#
11/10/13 Wolstein Center – Ohio Metal Fest (Main Stage) – Cleveland, OH#
11/11/13 House Of Blues – Chicago, IL#
11/13/13 Empire – Springfield, VA#
11/14/13 Palladium – Worcester, MA#
11/15/13 Phoenix Theater – Toronto, ON – CANADA#
11/16/13 Metropolis – Montreal, QC – CANADA#
11/17/13 Reverb – Reading, PA#
11/18/13 Gramercy Theater – New York, NY#
11/20/13 Beacham Theater – Orlando, FL#
11/21/13 Grand Central – Miami, FL#
11/23/13 Queen City Music Hall – Ft. Worth, TX#
11/24/13 Emo’s East – Austin, TX#
11/26/13 – Club Red – Tempe, AZ **SEPULTURA ONLY**
** with SCAR THE MARTYR & DARK SERMON
# with ANCIIENTS & DARK SERMON
Advanced purchase ticket links are available on SEPULTURA’s official Facebook page.
Visit SEPULTURA online at http://www.SEPULTURA.com.br.
According to Nuclear Blast Records, Legendary Brazilian metal icons SEPULTURA will release their upcoming album The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart on October 25th (Europe) and October 29th (Noth America) via Nuclear Blast. In anticipation Andreas Kisser sat down with DP no estúdio com o Sepultura to talk through the album. Read that track-by-track below:
“Intro”
“Actually the intro is the demo we did just before we went to the studio, with all the songs played at the same time! It’s like you are listening to all the songs that you will hear separately on the album at once. It sounds so great, noisy
and powerful and it was a result of an accident that I had on my computer. Each song had its track so when I accidentally played the tracks together they came strong and beautiful so I decided to show the guys and they all liked it!”
“Trauma of War”
“This will be the first song on the album and is one of the fastest and most brutal songs we ever did. The performance of our drummer Eloy is fantastic, it gave such an energy to the song that the guitars, bass and vocals had to top that level of brutality, for sure our strongest opener so far. I wrote the lyrics inspired by friends that went to war and came back with some kind of trauma, some kind of disturbance that they have to live with for the rest of their lives.”
“The Vatican”
An ironic tribute to the conclave that elected Argentinian Pope Francis I as the successor of Benedict XVI. “This track has some Death Metal influences. The lyric tells the story of how the Vatican was created, filled with blood, orgy, murders, corruption, adultery. It’s one of the most evil and perverse lyrics I ever wrote.”
“Impending Doom”
”Song with a very slowed tempo, with heavy picks and a low-tuned rhythm. Its nickname was “Puxada”, because of the guitar’s riff characteristic. This track is very heavy. The lyrics are Derrick’s. And it talks about cursed inheritances that are left from generation to generation. What world we are going to leave for ours heirs?”
“Manipulation of Tragedy”
“Another of Derrick’s lyric. Talks about collective manipulation through a culture of fear, creating tragic and drastic situations in order to justify certain decisions made by the governors, legitimizing some limitations to the society. The manufactured consent. The song was born from Eloy’s double bass drumming rhythm. It sounds very Sepultura, with influence from several periods of the band.”
“Tsunami”
“Derrick wrote the lyrics for it, part inspired by the natural phenomena and part by the ‘tsunami’ of information we receive nowadays through the world wide web and the media in general. A tsunami is the most powerful force of nature, stronger than any earthquake, tornado or a storm. It simply destroys everything in its path. The result is total destruction but also total cleanup, a new beginning.”
“The Bliss of Ignorants”
Derrick’s lyric. “It’s about the illusion created in society that we are free to do whatever we want, but, in fact, it is not like that. Freedom is limited and part of the society lives under ignorance, euphoric, without awareness of everything that surrounds us. The song opens with percussive drum, low tuning and groovy sound. Its nickname was ‘Brasuca’. It’s kind of a mix of Roots and Chaos Ad rhythm. Ross influenced us to explore more this Brazilian side. With participation of percussionist Fred Ortiz (Beastie Boys’ former drummer who plays with Derrick in Maximum Hedrum).”
“Grief”
“It is a song that starts with clean guitars in a way that we never attempted before, I think it was our biggest challenge on this album and it came out amazing. I wrote the song inspired by a tragic incident that happened in Brazil in January 2013. More than 200 kids died in a fire inside a night club. The place didn’t have the proper emergency exits and most of the people died asphyxiated, it was horrible. The small town at the south of the country, where most of the people were from, was in total grief. I wrote this song to honor the victims and their families.”
“The Age of the Atheist”
“This is a song I wrote inspired by the hard times we live today and how difficult is to believe in things. So many theories of conspiracies against the official reports that make your head turn with so much confusion, all religions that are pushing each other away like never before, making disagreements instead of unity. We have to believe in our strength. We, as people, have the power to change everything and we are losing this belief, becoming numb and hopeless.”
“Obsessed”
“Deals with the shopping anxiety. The compulsive purchase of unnecessary goods and the consequent accumulation of things produced by the unruled and uncontrolled thirst. People do not worry with the origin of what they consume. There is an eternal search for satisfaction through the consumption, preventing people from evolving in the way that they should. This is the track that has the participation of Dave Lombardo, a fill on the song with Dave’s rhythmic characteristics. It’s a great honor having this idol and master in our song.”
The artwork for The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart was created by Brazilian artist Alexandre Wagner (http://www.alwg.org). The album was recorded with renowned producer Ross Robinson (KORN, MACHINE HEAD, FEAR FACTORY), who worked with SEPULTURA on their landmark 1996 release Roots, and co-produced by Steve Evetts (THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, SYMPHONY X, INCANTATION), who previously worked on SEPULTURA’s Roorback (2003), the Revolusongs EP (2002), and Nation (2001).
The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart track listing:
01. Trauma Of War
02. The Vatican
03. Impending Doom
04. Manipulation of Tragedy
05. Tsunami
06. The Bliss Of Ignorants
07. Grief
08. The Age Of The Atheist
09. Obsessed
10. Da Lama Ao Caos (Chico Science & Nação Zumbi cover)
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