SEPULTURA Andreas Kisser reported in his last studio diary, Eloy Casagrande finished recording all the drum tracks for the group’s new album, currently being recorded with producer Ross Robinson (SLIPKNOT, LIMP BIZKIT) at his studio in Venice, California.

Says the band: "The young drummer sent us a video that shows excerpts of the recordings. Check out how he blows everything up!"

The follow-up to 2011's Kairos - due in October via Nuclear Blast Records - is being co-produced by Steve Evetts, who has worked with Sepultura on 2001's Nation, 2002's Revolusongs and 2003's Roorback.

Kisser remarked about the recordings recently: "We have six songs recorded, is going in a rate of two songs a day and Ross is also giving important suggestions on some arrangements and directions, he is so sensitive and very close to nature, philosophical but real, very real.

We are all together in a very small room playing our hearts out, Ross is jumping and screaming making us explode on the room. All is sweaty and full of energy that you almost can grab it, is amazing. Every time that Ross have an idea he stop everything to try out the changes, 95% of his input we use it, it’s a team effort for the better of the song.

We have 12 songs to record and two bonus tracks (the previously announced covers of DEATH and Brazilian group CHICO SCIENCE E NAÇÃO ZUMBI) as I mentioned before, originally we had 13 songs but once we were here we decided to cut one and focus on the 12. I would like to share too some of the working titles for the songs we have. When we write the music, most of the time we don’t have a name for it so we create some nicknames to help us identify the songs, it can come from the style of the songs or anything else that will make us remind the riffs we are working on. For instance, the style of the music can help like PUXADA (Pulling) that reminds the style of riffing I’m playing on the guitar or PORRADA (Punch), which is the fastest song on the album. Other nicknames are: 'Strangiatto', 'Xisto Riff', 'Fu Riff', 'Levada Eloy', 'Balada', 'Tsunami' and 'The Vatican', which is the actual name for the song but started as a nickname cause we wrote the song the very day and time the Argentinian Cardinal Francis was chosen as the new Pope in Rome. It’s one of the most evil lyrics I ever wrote."