Let The Good Things Roll With ANDREAS KISSER From SEPULTURA

Interview by Kris Peters
Good Things 2023 will be underway next week, with the annual music
extravaganza kicking off next Friday, December 1 in Melbourne
before hitting Sydney and Brisbane over the following two
days.
Every year the Good Things line-up manages to top itself, with this
year's show being no exception.
Headlined by Fall Out Boy and Limp Bizkit, Good Things also
welcomes Corey Taylor, Devo, Enter Shikari, Hanabie, Bullet For My
Valentine, Behemoth and plenty more, covering a wide range of
genres and tastes.
But, without an abundance of heavy metal, where would ANY festival
be? And this year organisers have secured the talents of one of the
best in the business with Sepultura making the trek from
Brazil.
HEAVY sat down with guitarist Andreas Kisser earlier this week to
find out what Sepultura have planned for their visit.
"I'm excited," he said, a massive smile running across his face.
"It's been since 2018 we don't come back to Australia. The lockdown
delayed everything by two years, and now we finally have this
chance to play our new album, not only at the festival which is
amazing with a very diverse line-up, but also our sideshows where
we can play a longer setlist with more songs. It's gonna be a great
way to close this amazing year for us. It's fantastic."
We ask Kisser what the general feeling is backstage at big shows
like this, with many bands catching up with each other after
prolonged periods of time.
"That's one of the best things about festivals," he smiled again.
"It's not only the bands, but crew people that we know around the
world and friends that we made in Australia that are following
Sepultura for so many years. It's a great atmosphere. Who knows,
some collaborations may happen and ideas and stuff. It's great.
It's very fertile (laughs). It's a great situation to know people
and to meet your idols."
With Sepultura doing sideshows starting in Fremantle on November
26, we ask Kisser what fans at these shows might get that the band
might not be able to explore fully at the festival
appearances.
"At the festival shows we have a shorter time," he offered, "around
40 to 45 minutes or something like that. For the sideshows we have
our own headline show, so we can play our complete show the way we
are presenting everywhere in the world. So we have a little more
time to play newer and older songs. It's gonna be a more complete
setlist for the fans, but on the festival we are going to represent
of course the whole history. We're gonna play new songs and a few
classics (laughs). It's gonna be very well represented of what
Sepultura is all about. We're very accustomed to doing that,
especially in Europe. When we do the festival run we have all types
of different set times and stuff, so we're accustomed to building…
we have kind of like a spine of the setlist that we are changing
according to our limitations, but we're prepared. It's gonna be a
beautiful celebration."
In the full interview, Andreas talks more about what to expect,
what has changed with Sepultura since they were last here in 2018,
his entry into Sepultura and how it came about, how their sound has
changed over the years, changing with the music industry and more.