Max Cavalera Pumps the Brakes on Sepultura Reunion: “There’s Not Really a Reason to Go Back”

There’s been a lot of talk about Sepultura and its planned twilight as they continue their farewell tour around the world. It’s an end of an era and it’s gotten fans wondering if there will ever be a time when Max and Igor Cavalera could hop on stage with the band they helped create four decades ago.

Normally, the conversation wouldn’t even be had, since the split’s been pretty firmly cemented over the years. Yet during a recent interview, guitarist Andreas Kisser floated the idea, saying that “it would be great” to play with the Cavaleras once again. And just like that, the masses began floating the question once again — could we actually see a real Sepultura reunion?

As it turns out, the answer for Max Cavalera is still a firm “no.” Earlier today, our friends over at Metal Injection ran an interview with the man himself. Though the discussion was wide ranging, they did eventually talk about the end of Sepultura, which Max said is sort of surprising in his eyes.

“My insight about the whole thing is I’m kind of surprised by it, you know. As far as a reunion – I wanted to reunite with my brother and that’s what he also said a long time ago when we first got together. So to me that was the real reunion, me and him, and we did that and it’s opened the doors for all these re-recordings and playing, all these records. It is so cool the way we’re doing them.”

Recent months have seen the Cavalera brothers releasing re-recorded versions of some of Sepultura’s early offerings like Bestial Devastation, Morbid Visions, and Schizophrenia. At the time, Max said he and his brother wanted to re-record those offerings so they could sound more in tune with how they imagined they’d sound back in the day.

With Sepultura calling it quits, Max said he feels like he’s now able to focus on what he and his brother wants to do. Rejoining Sepultura in its final moments, however, would bring back same negativity that pushed him out of the band in the first place.

Ultimately, Max said the idea of coming back to Sepultura is just not in the cards, especially given how much time has passed and how well he perceives the Cavalera band doing lately.