Komodorock.com recently spoke with SEPULTURA guitarist Andres Kisser. An excerpt from the interview is available below.

Q: In 2006 you released a concept album, Dante XXI and A-Lex is also a concept album which is based on A Clockwork Orange. Is this now the format that you as a band are taking on?

Kisser: "I don't know. For Sepultura it's really hard to say what kind of stuff we're going to do next and that's the beauty of it (laughs). The soundtrack idea came from experiences I had doing soundtracks for movies here in Brazil. Ten or 11 years ago, Igor and I were invited to participate on a soundtrack for a movie and since then, I have been invited to work with different musicians, actors, writers and I found this very interesting, to write music for a movie because it's totally different to writing with a band. You have to respect certain limits like the directors point of view, the story line, the time frame of certain scenes which all give you tendencies to be more committed because you have to work a lot more with less elements and you really expand your own limits and it challenges you beat those elements. So that is what we did with Dante XXI and it worked out great and we had a great experience doing it and now we're doing it again with Clockwork Orange which is such a great movie, a spectacular book and it was very inspirational for us."

Q: What are the fundamental differences between writing a concept album opposed to a studio album?

Kisser: "I guess it's just the flavour of the book because every album has a concept. Imagine taking Satan away from Black Metal, they're lost (laughs), even love, take love away from any Beatles song, it's like, everything has a concept but we limit ourselves to the book and like I said, once you limit yourself you have the answer to be more creative. In a Clockwork Orange it talks about everything. It talks about drugs, violence, family relationships, friendship, religion and hypocrisy so we could filter all our points of view and experiences in Brazil and touring along with our opinions on politics and religion through the book so it's just a different taste, a different flavour on how to express what we feel. Everything has a concept, if you don't have a concept you can't do anything, you don't have a way to take information or to prove or show your opinion. You have to have a balance or cause to express something. To paint or write a poem ... everything has a concept but if you limit it to a book or a movie, I think you expand your abilities."

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