Sepultura will release one final record before finally calling it a career.
The band made the announcement Thursday through a news release. According to the document, the band will release a new EP, The Cloud of Unknowing Apr. 24 via Nuclear Blast Records.
In anticipation of the record’s release, the band unveiled the record’s lead single, ‘The Place‘ Thursday. The musical arrangement featured in the six-minute-plus song is an engaging presentation that blends elements of doom and sludge metal for the band’s own unique composition.
Front man Derrick Green discussed the song’s lyrical theme in a prepared statement.
“This song deals with immigrants who have come to a place seeking refuge and start a new life,” said Green. “Once assimilated into a false sense of security and relentless propaganda they began to act out against what they hate about themselves. The transition begins to escape from the self hatred and the lashing out against people who believed in the same ideas. I feel the lyrics truly follow the transitions of the song. Starting with disappointment and arriving at anger.”
The Cloud of Unknowing will be Sepultura’s first new music since the release of its then latest album, Quadra in 2020. That record was also released through Nuclear Blast Records, which had been the band’s label home since 2011.
Sepultura is in the midst of a global farewell tour, which it announced in December 2023. The next leg of the tour — a North American leg — is scheduled to kick off Apr. 29 ion Montclair, NJ and to run through May 29 in Los Angeles, CA.
Tickets for the upcoming North American tour are available. The tour’s schedule is noted below:
SEPULTURA – Celebrating Life Through Death North American Tour 2026
With EXODUS, BIOHAZARD, TRIBAL GAZE
04.29 US Montclair, NJ @ The Wellmont Theater
05.01 CAN Montreal, QC @ MTELUS
05.02 CAN London, ON @ London Music Hall
05.04 US Detroit, MI @ Royal Oak Music Theatre
05.05 US Louisville, KY @ Old Forester’s Paristown Hall
05.06 US Nashville, TN @ Brooklyn Bowl
05.07 US Atlanta, GA @ The Masquarade
05.08 US New Orleans, LA @ The Civic Theatre
05.10 US Daytona Beach, FL @ Welcome To Rockville*
05.11 US Charleston, SC @ Music Farm
05.12 US Greensboro, NC @ Piedmont Hall
05.13 US Reading, PA @ Reverb
05.15 US Chicago, IL @ Ramova Theatre
05.16 US Columbus, OH @ Sonic Temple*
05.17 US Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
05.19 US Des Moines, IA @ Val Air Ballroom
05.21 US Denver, CO @ The Ogden Theatre
05.22 US Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
05.23 US Boise, ID @ Shrine Social Club
05.25 US Las Vegas, NV @ House Of Blues
05.26 US San Diego, CA @ The Observatory North Park
05.28 US Berkeley, CA @ UC Theatre
05.29 US Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
*Festival Date
European Dates on sale as well at the ticket link above.