Former Sepultura guitarist Jairo “Tormentor” Guedz has spoken about the possibility of making a guest appearance at the band’s final concert, scheduled for Nov. 7, 2026, at the Mercado Livre Arena Pacaembu in São Paulo, Brazil, in a new interview with Tomasz Michalski of Poland’s MetalSide.
Asked if he might appear at the show, Guedz said (transcribed by Blabbermouth): “It would be an honor for me and a pleasure, sure. If you ask me, I don’t think [original Sepultura drummer] Igor [Cavalera] and [original Sepultura guitarist/vocalist] Max [Cavalera] will do it, anyway. But I think it will be a very good, very amazing and good party for the fans — I mean, this final gig in São Paulo.”
Guedz, who has spent the last few years playing with The Troops of Doom, added: “I didn’t receive any invitation officially — nobody asked me to do that — but we talk sometimes, I talk to Andreas [Kisser, Sepultura guitarist] sometimes, not too much, but we talk sometimes, and if he wants me to do that, and if I’m in Brazil, it will be my pleasure to do it, yeah, because it’s the end of a very beautiful history, Sepultura.”
On his reaction to the farewell tour announcement, Guedz said: “Well, I was very sad about that, actually. As a fan, I think they have too many things to do and to give to the fans and the people. But I understand Andreas, and I think this is actually, it’s more of a decision from Andreas himself, because he is a little bit tired of everything. He lost his wife and his mother, and this and that, and he works a lot. So I understand. He wants to be more with his kids and his new girlfriend and not be on the road all the time. So I understand him. I think we will lose one of the biggest bands in the world, and I’m a big fan of the last two albums, for example — Quadra, for me, it’s a big one; yeah, it’s awesome.” He added that the possibility of an appearance at the final show had come up in conversation when he saw Kisser and bassist Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr. backstage at the Summer Breeze festival in São Paulo in April: “It’s possible to happen at the last gig.”
In a June 2024 interview with Metal Remains, Guedz explained why he was not involved in the Cavalera re-recordings of Sepultura’s first two releases — the 1985 Bestial Devastation EP and the 1986 Morbid Visions LP. He cited both the existence of The Troops of Doom and budgetary considerations, noting that Max Cavalera may have wanted to keep expenses low: “Maybe they want to do something more with a low budget and see what happens.” Of the three Cavalera re-recordings, Guedz said he finds the re-recorded Schizophrenia (1987) “better than the other ones for me — it’s more listenable.”
Sepultura was formed in 1984 in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Guedz joined the following year and played on Bestial Devastation and Morbid Visions, also participating in early songwriting sessions for Schizophrenia. He left the band in early 1987 and was replaced by Kisser. In June 2021, Guedz, Max Cavalera, and Igor Cavalera reunited virtually to record a new version of the classic Sepultura track “Antichrist” — originally from Bestial Devastation — for Igor’s YouTube series “Beneath the Drums.”
The Troops of Doom — founded by Guedz in 2020 during the pandemic, also featuring vocalist/bassist Alex Kafer and drummer Alexandre Oliveira — released their sophomore album, A Mass to the Grotesque, in May 2024 via Alma Mater Records, the Portuguese label operated by Moonspell singer Fernando Ribeiro. The band’s debut was Antichrist Reborn (2022), preceded by three EPs: The Rise of Heresy (2020), The Absence of Light (2021), and Prelude to Blasphemy (2023).
