Sepultura - Part Ways With Drummer Eloy Casagrande
More than two months after announcing a final world tour, longtime Sepultura drummer Eloy Casagrande has confirmed that he has left the band to pursue "another project". Casagrande had been the drummer for Sepultura since 2011 and the band are replacing him with current Suicidal Tendencies drummer Greyson Nekrutman for the duration of that final tour.
A statement from Sepultura reads as follows: "The 'Celebrating Life Through Death' tour, a farewell tour over the next 18 months that will celebrate the band's 40th anniversary and also its farewell to the stage.
"Beginning of December the group clearly defined the intention at the announcement, it is a 'conscious and planned death'. As poetic as it sounds, a tour of this magnitude took nearly of year of preparing and planning which would require a lot commitment, ethics and loyalty to their fans, as well as respecting for the band's history - something that is a clear priority to Andreas Kisser, Derrick Green and Paulo Xisto. However, on February 6th a few days prior to the first rehearsal, drummer Eloy Casagrande informed the band that he was leaving Sepultura to pursue a career in another project. The band were taken by surprise, without prior warning, he immediately left the band, abandoning everything related to Sepultura. Luckily American virtuoso Greyson Nekrutman will take the position of Eloy Casagrande and is welcomed as the band's new drummer for the 'celebrating life through death' farewell tour."
Greyson Nekrutman comments: "Today I express my heartfelt gratitude for the incredible opportunity to join the legendary ranks of Sepultura for their farewell tour. To contribute to this legacy is a privilege that fills me with both honor and excitement. Sepultura's fearless approach to exploring new territories in the metal sphere is something that I have always admired and strived to emulate in my own musical endeavors. I am eagerly looking forward to adding my own spirit and passion to the mix, to connecting with the fans who have supported the band through its evolution, and to the electrifying experiences we'll create together on stage. Here's to the new chapters we'll write together, to the stages we'll conquer, and to the powerful music we'll unleash upon the world."
A statement from Sepultura reads as follows: "The 'Celebrating Life Through Death' tour, a farewell tour over the next 18 months that will celebrate the band's 40th anniversary and also its farewell to the stage.
"Beginning of December the group clearly defined the intention at the announcement, it is a 'conscious and planned death'. As poetic as it sounds, a tour of this magnitude took nearly of year of preparing and planning which would require a lot commitment, ethics and loyalty to their fans, as well as respecting for the band's history - something that is a clear priority to Andreas Kisser, Derrick Green and Paulo Xisto. However, on February 6th a few days prior to the first rehearsal, drummer Eloy Casagrande informed the band that he was leaving Sepultura to pursue a career in another project. The band were taken by surprise, without prior warning, he immediately left the band, abandoning everything related to Sepultura. Luckily American virtuoso Greyson Nekrutman will take the position of Eloy Casagrande and is welcomed as the band's new drummer for the 'celebrating life through death' farewell tour."
Greyson Nekrutman comments: "Today I express my heartfelt gratitude for the incredible opportunity to join the legendary ranks of Sepultura for their farewell tour. To contribute to this legacy is a privilege that fills me with both honor and excitement. Sepultura's fearless approach to exploring new territories in the metal sphere is something that I have always admired and strived to emulate in my own musical endeavors. I am eagerly looking forward to adding my own spirit and passion to the mix, to connecting with the fans who have supported the band through its evolution, and to the electrifying experiences we'll create together on stage. Here's to the new chapters we'll write together, to the stages we'll conquer, and to the powerful music we'll unleash upon the world."
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| musclassia Staff Posts: 7645  |
Maybe he saw that the final tour setlist the rest cooked up featured a full-album runthrough of Nation and decided to pack it in
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| Daniell _爱情_ Elite Posts: 6105  |
Not hard to figure out. Sepultura is disbanding anyway, so for Eloy it was the question of taking part in the farewell tour, or quitting before it. Whatever the new band is paying him is apparently more that he'd get for the Sepultura tour. I'm pretty sure that's all there is to it. If the rumors that he's joining Slipknot turn out to be true - Slipknot can surely pay him more than the has-beens that Sepultura are can (as much as I love their old stuff).
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MetalInjection.net has said the following: "Slipknot has not yet commented on the situation." I laughed so hard! 
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Written by Daniell on 28.02.2024 at 10:11 Situation that has been overdue since 1996.
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Written by MikeVonDoom on 28.02.2024 at 11:48
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Written by Daniell on 28.02.2024 at 10:11 Well, Slipknot are just as has-beens as Sepultura if you ask me.
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Written by MikeVonDoom on 28.02.2024 at 11:45
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| A Real Mönkey Posts: 1184  |
It’s truly a sad state of things when Slipknot are doing better nowadays than Sepultura are. Better music too, insult to injury fr.
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Written by A Real Mönkey on 28.02.2024 at 16:00 Quadra was better than The End, So Far.
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Written by RaduP on 28.02.2024 at 16:56 True, but We Are Not Your Kind and The Gray Chapter were better than anything Sepultura released since Roots.
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| Daniell _爱情_ Elite Posts: 6105 |
Written by Liafev on 28.02.2024 at 14:38 But with a much larger audience.
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Written by RaduP on 28.02.2024 at 16:56 I'm old enough to remember the release of "Beneath The Remains". It was the first Sepultura album I heard and I loved it to death. "Arise" was almost as brilliant. Back then I'd mention Sepultura in the same breath with Slayer, Metallica and Anthrax as my favourite thrash bands. "Chaos A.D." was when I started losing interest. There was too much groove and too little thrash in Sepultura on that album. "Roots.." were an even bigger disappointment and that was where I completely lost interest in Sepultura. I've been checking them out with every new release, but nothing ever really moved me.
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| BloodJuNkie Of Egypt Posts: 647  |
He was a great drummer, his performance in "The Age of The Atheist" is remarkable to me.
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Greyson Nekrutman from Suicidal Tendencies are live drummer now
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