Andreas Kisser: We Learn How To Face The Current With The Elements We Have

Andreas Kisser (Instagram @sepultura)

JAKARTA - In an interview with Heavy Australia, Sepulura guitarist Andreas Kisser revealed how he and his bandmates adapted to all the changes in the music industry over the past four decades.

"I think we absorb everything. It's a bit stupid to ignore it... I mean, Sepultura congratulations... If you combine 40 years of Sepultura's life, my friend, just collect everything from black disk to CD, CD to download, computer, phone, cell phone and Spotify and Napster and everything that's happened over 40 years is so fast, everything, so much information, and we're still going through a change in phase transition," Andreas said.

"Everything is happening. There are many different ways of selling albums produced from this phase. Lockdown, pandemic situation, and we are still here. Because we learn how to deal with the present and with the elements we have in our hands. It's a bit stupid not to try to do something that doesn't exist anymore. So, with the lockdown situation, it's like that," he continued.

"We are ready to go on tours. [Our newest album] Quadr' was just released in February [2020], and in March [the year] the world stopped. And then we shifted our energy and focus to SepulQuarta [weekly online session]. We started working at home. Every Wednesday we connect with fans, we do jamming music, and an album comes out."

"So we continue to work, but in different frames, in different energies. So we waited two years to finally start the tour in 2022. So here we are in the second year of the Quadra tour, and it feels amazing, because we respect the changes that... Not us; I mean, it's not up to us. This pandemic situation; no one chooses that. I mean, we have to deal with it."

And that's life, added Andreas, if we have the idea that we control everything in our lives, it's just an illusion. The reason is, Sepultura learns how to face the present and with everything in their hands.

"That's how we grow. And we feel better than ever," Andreas concluded.