SEPULTURA Guitarist ANDREAS KISSER Is Mourning Death Of His Wife

SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser is mourning the death of his spouse.

Patricia Perissinoto Kisser handed away Sunday morning (July 3) immediately after a fight with colon most cancers. She had just turned 52 decades outdated just one working day before.

Andreas and the couple’s three little ones, Giulia, Yohan and Enzo, introduced Patricia‘s death in a social media publish previously currently. They wrote: “It is with deep sadness that we have to share that Patricia Perissinoto Kisser handed absent this early morning. She will continue to be in are recollections eternally.

“We want to thank all our pals and spouse and children for all the help and messages of appreciate.

“We talk to for privacy all through this complicated time.”

In a individual Portuguese-language put up on his private Instagram, Andreas identified as Patricia his “most effective close friend and “inspiration” and praised her for facing her sickness “head on, with strength and determination.” He extra: “My admiration for you is eternal. I’m guaranteed we will cross paths again in some dimension outside of this earth.”

Andreas and Patricia experienced been collectively for 32 several years following first acquiring with each other in 1990. They married in 1994.

Late final month, Andreas still left SEPULTURA‘s European tour owing to what was described at the time as a “loved ones emergency.” He is currently being temporarily changed on the street by Jean Patton of fellow São Paulo, Brazil-based heavy metal act Project46.

Previous September, Andreas exposed through an visual appeal on TRIVIUM frontman Matt Heafy‘s “GLHF” podcast that his wife experienced been diagnosed with cancer in February 2021. He claimed at the time: “She’s going via chemo, like surgeries and things. She’s carrying out good she’s undertaking well the procedure is amazing. But it’s an atomic bomb one particular after another — pandemic, most cancers and stuff. And irrespective of that, we’re solid. We’re extremely united, we are developing as a band and as a loved ones, and myself as a human becoming.”

In July 2021, Kisser informed A&P Reacts that he give up consuming liquor suitable right before the pandemic strike. At the time, he claimed that receiving sober “was one particular of the best decisions I manufactured in my existence” and additional that it improved his interactions with absolutely everyone around him, like his household.

“The stuff that I have with my spouse and my young ones, that I am under no circumstances dwelling [when SEPULTURA is in the middle of an album cycle], I’m constantly listed here now,” he explained. “It was a complicated time, but we recreated ourselves sort of. We are a far better family members now — a much better relatives now. And that is pretty unique. And I have to be grateful for that somehow, that I was capable really to make the best out of one thing so horrible.”

Kisser joined SEPULTURA in 1987 as the substitute for Jairo Guedz. Kisser‘s very first studio outing with SEPULTURA was the very same year’s “Schizophrenia”, an album that demonstrated a marked improvement from the band’s 1986 “Morbid Visions” debut, not only in the direct-guitar section but in songwriting and output. Kisser‘s direct participating in would go on to determine extra prominently on ensuing SEPULTURA releases, specially 1989’s “Beneath The Continues to be” and 1991’s “Crop up”, serving as the ideal complement to Max Cavalera‘s rhythm guitar get the job done. Kisser has considering the fact that assumed pretty much all guitar responsibilities considering that Cavalera‘s acrimonious 1996 split from SEPULTURA and now serves as the band’s principal songwriter. Now, Kisser and bassist Paulo Xisto Pinto Jr. are the only holdovers from SEPULTURA‘s typical lineup.