SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser is featured in a new interview with Joshua Bottomley at Metal Insider. An excerpt is available below:

Q: Many critics are hailing Kairos as a return to the “old” Sepultura sound. Were you aiming in that direction?

Kisser. "This album is inspired by ourselves. A little bit of everything that we did in our history since day one, it’s there. It’s Sepultura today. We wanted to try to reproduce what we are on stage. We play songs from every part of Sepultura’s history in order to have that kind of intensity. Every album that we do we try to reach for that, to sound as alive as possible. And we achieved more than ever this kind of vibe on Kairos. The album sounds very alive. We had a lot of fun recording. The production coming from Roy Z. was amazing. Musically, it has a little bit of the past. We didn’t try to represent another album. We have so many different albums throughout our history and we respect every one of them. I guess there’s a little bit of the thrashy old style. We listened to a lot of the bands we listened to before: HELLHAMMER, CELTIC FROST, DESTRUCTION, KREATOR, and VIO-LENCE. All that thrash. We went back to those feelings to try to remember what they were and how we did it, and why we did it. The limitations with vinyl on classic albums, they have eight or nine songs at the most. We did albums with 16-17 songs. So we decided that we needed to shorten the number of songs and really focus on each one of them. Really thinking about construction of solos, vocals, all of it. We didn’t try to copy anything we did [before] but tried to get that feeling back."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

Sepultura have been confirmed as the headliner for the Thrashfest Classics tour, featuring EXODUS, DESTRUCTION and HEATHEN.

The tour dates are as follows:

November

25 - Munich, Germany - Backstage
26 - Leeuwarden, Netherlands - Zaal Schaaf
27 - Paris, France - Bataclan
28 - Braunschweig, Germany - Meier Music Hall
29 - Würzburg, Germany - Posthalle
30 - Saarbrücken, Germany - Garage

December

1 - Prague, Czech Republic - Kd Vltavska
2 - Oberhausen, Germany - Turbinenhalle
3 - Giessen, Germany - Hessenhallen
4 - Antwerpen, Belgium - Trix
5 - Hamburg, Germany - Markthalle
6 - Gothenburg, Sweden - Trädgarn
7 - Aarhus, Denmark - Voxhall
8 - Berlin, Germany - C-Club
9 - Katowice, Poland - Mega Club
10 - Leipzig, Germany - Hellraiser
11 - Bratislava, Slovakia - Majestic Music Club
12 - Zagreb, Hungary - Boogaloo
13 - Ljubljana, Slovenia - Kino Siska
14 - Bologna, Italy - Estragon
15 - Pratteln, Switzerland - Z-7
16 - Eindhoven, Netherlands - Effenaar
17 - Stuttgart, Germany - LKA Longhorn
18 - Wien, Austria - Arena

As previously reported, Sepultura's hour-long set from the Wacken Open Air 2011, which ran from August 4th - 6th in Wacken, Germany, is available for streaming below. The band's complete setlist was as follows:

'Intro/Arise'

'Refuse/Resist'

'Kairos'

'Just One Fix' (MINISTRY cover)

'Convicted in Life'

'Choke'

'What I Do!'

'Relentless'

'Troops of Doom'

'Territory'

'Inner Self'

'Ratamahatta'

'Roots Bloody Roots'