Sepultura performs gigantic farewell show in Porto Alegre

Starting with a cliché, Sepultura’s show on Thursday at the Auditorium Araújo Viana was a true catharsis. One of the biggest names in global Thrash Metal and probably the biggest in Brazil, the band from Minas Gerais presented the show of their farewell tour “Celebrating Life Through Death”, after 40 years on the road. And from what the public, who filled the premises of the house located in the middle of Farroupilha Park, demonstrated, he will be missed.

With drummer Greyson Nekrutman, from Suicidal Tendencies, replacing Eloy Casagrande, who days before the start of the tour decided to resign from the band, Derrick Green on vocals, Andreas Kisser on guitar and Paulo Xisto on bass, they left no stone unturned in almost two hours of presentation.

The band’s stage presence is undeniable, and North American Derrick Green, in the group since 1997, communicated easily in Portuguese with the audience. And his vocals are simply outstanding – the guy has a gogó like few others.

Grave in Araújo Viana
| Photo: Guilherme Almeida

The repertoire practically covered Sepultura’s entire career, from the great classics like “Refuse/Resist”, which opened the show, to “Terrritory”, “Slave New World”, “Phantom Self”, and pearls like “Kairos”. , “Choke”, from the 1998 album “Against”, the first to feature Green, “Sepulnation”.

The revisitation made room for the monumental “Troops of Doom”, from the 1986 album Morbid Visions. At this point I heard someone in the audience say: “bah, I wasn’t even born yet when they dropped that stone”. Yes, “Celebrating Life Through Death” had people of all ages and decades in the audience.

Grave in Araújo Viana
| Photo: Guilherme Almeida

And when I was about to give up, thinking it wouldn’t be played, Sepultura gave me my favorite of all time, the phenomenal “Inner Self”, by Beneath the Remains, from 1989.

The show was nearing the end, then came “Arise”, from the 1991 album of the same name. The encore was “Ratamahatta” and probably Sepultura’s greatest classic, “Roots Bloody Roots”, both from Roots, from 1996.
In the end, the public present showed extreme satisfaction with the show – many people asked them to return before declaring the definitive end there in 2025. I didn’t see anyone looking sad when leaving Araújo Viana.

On the contrary, people left calmly, talking about the best moments they had in those two hours. Grave lives.

Grave in Araújo Viana
| Photo: Guilherme Almeida

The complete set list for the presentation:

Opening: Police (Titans)
1. Refuse/Resist
2. Territory
3. Slave New World
4. Phantom Self
5. Dusted
6. Attitude
7. Kairos
8.Means to an End
9. Cut-Throat
10. Guardians of Earth
11. Mind War
12. False
13. Choke
14. Escape to the Void
15. Kaiowas
16. Sepulnation
17. Biotech Is Godzilla
18. Agony of Defeat
19. Troops of Doom
20. Inner Self
21. Arise
22. Ratamahatta
23. Roots Bloody Roots