In a new interview with Metal Hammer, Andreas Kisser reflected on treating Sepultura like Pink Floyd while discussing five key tracks from their career.
“‘Kairos,’ I think, represented a new chapter in Sepultura’s career,” the guitarist said of their 2011 song. “We did ‘Roorback’ and ‘Dante XXI,’ and then ‘A-Lex’ while changing drummers. It was a very difficult period of our career.”
He continued, “I remember – me, Derrick and one of our managers – we went for this dinner with Markus Staiger, who at the time owned Nuclear Blast. He said, very straight to us, ‘Dude, you guys are Sepultura! Not Pink Floyd! Don’t do 12-minute songs and concepts,’ because we were coming from that world. For us, it was eye-opening. We went a little raw.”
‘Kairos’ is the twelfth album by Sepultura. It was released on June 24, 2011, by Nuclear Blast Records. This was their first album on the label and the first not released by SPV/Steamhammer since ‘Nation’ in 2001.
Kisser previously explained how the band came up with the ‘Kairos’ title, saying, “The whole theme of the album is the concept of the time, and the title reflects that — it’s like one concept of time which is not chronological, from one to two; it’s like an instant in time, it’s a special time of change…”
“Everyone’s life is written by [their] choices — you have many ‘kairos’ moments, like if you go [from] point A [to point] B [to point] C, you are driven by your choices or your guidance; you have to go either one way or the other. And that’s the kind of time we talked about — not about aging or getting old or going back [in time]; it’s just [about those important] moments that can change everything,” he added.
The musician also shared, “It’s a collection of ‘kairos’ that [got us] here. It’s being inspired by our own biography, but mostly [focusing] on what Sepultura is today.”
Sepultura toured for ‘Kairos’ and performed at Wacken Open Air 2011. The record sold more than 2,500 copies in the United States during its first week.
