Robert Gray at Ultimate-Guitar.com recently caught up with SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser to discuss the band's new album, Kairos. An excerpt is available below:

Q: Twelfth studio album 'Kairos' deals with the concept of time.

Kisser: "This is an album that in the end is inspired by ourselves; we were celebrating twenty-five years of Sepultura's career last year, and doing a lot of special things to celebrate that - special shirts, and we had our own beer in Brazil celebrating our twenty-five years and all this stuff. When you do that, you tend to look back on your career; you remember your beginnings, where you started, where you come from and that brings a lot of feelings. We're still here in 2011, playing music, travelling the world and signing a new deal, and being who we are. That brought a lot of ideas, and we were inspired by books for our two previous albums - Divine Comedy and A Clockwork Orange. This one is almost our own biography book; as we were reading our own story, we were inspired by that. Our lyrics talk about our families, our friends and our relationships with labels and managers and the press. We talk about our experiences onstage and travelling the world. It turned out to be a more intimate album and I think 'Kairos' represents this moment that we are in, respecting our past without being slaves of our past and really living in the present as much as we can. The now, 2011 - what Sepultura is today. It's a pretty strong concept that helped us a lot to write all the stuff, and we are very happy with the result."

Q: You said how Sepultura doesn't wish to be a slave of its past. Is that a reference to all these interviews where Max Cavalera keeps talking about reuniting the old lineup, whereas you want to just continue doing what you're doing?

Kisser: "Yeah, it's a little bit of that as well - trying to reproduce what isn't there anymore. We live in the reunion age; many bands from many different styles are coming back together - some of them were really cool, but other ones were very weak. It's actually impossible to relive something that's not there anymore, so I guess yeah, we can't reproduce what we were but we can really respect that and build from there. I guess the most important time is now, as always (laughs)."

Q: Did Sepultura's twenty-fifth anniversary have a musical effect on Kairos? Maybe flavours from some of the older records?

Kisser: "I think so man, not only from our records but from influences that we had during those days. Like the thrash metal bands and the punk and hardcore scenes, which we still listen to today. In those days those influences were stronger than they are today though, so I guess yeah, I think the whole celebration of twenty-five years was really something that brought that idea of time and what time is, and what the concept of time is. Then I found this word 'kairos' that was really powerful, and really inspired the whole thing. It was great."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

As previously reported, ANTHRAX has posted the following message to Kisser regarding him filling in on guitar while guitarist Scott Ian was out for eight dates this past July taking care of his new fatherly duty with wife Pearl Aday (daughter of a rock legend MEATLOAF) and their new son Revel Young Ian:

“Words cannot express the feeling of love we have for you. From the first day, you were a part of the family. You were the only choice to fill in for Scott and that decision proved to be the right one. Thank you for being you, we miss you already. Have a great tour with the mighty Sepultura.”

Check out a picture from the tour below: