Now, talking to the One Life One Chance With Toby Morse podcast, Green has shared the panic he felt after hearing of Casagrande’s last-minute exit.
“I think I was flying out literally the next day to start rehearsals,” the vocalist remembers of the day he found out his drummer was leaving (as transcribed by Blabbermouth ).
“Andreas [Kisser, Sepultura guitarist, gets in touch with me and he] is like, ‘Yo…’ I was like, ‘What’s going on?’ He’s like, ‘He’s out.’”
Green continues: “I was just kind of like falling in a black hole, like, ‘What are you talking about?’ It was totally surreal. It was like literally in slow motion. I was just trying to get my breath. And he explained everything.”
Green then remembers the meeting the band had with Casagrande to discuss the drummer’s exit. The discussions did nothing to ease his shock over the departure.
“[Eloy] came in and it was just like, ‘I’m doing this gig. I signed a contract. And I’m out.’ And I was just trying to get my head around it, because it’d been 13 years playing with this guy. And I was just really in shock. I was like, ‘Dude, what are we gonna do?’”
According to Green, the band quickly contacted Nekrutman, then playing with Suicidal Tendencies, at the suggestion of Kisser. The guitarist had previously been shown videos of the drummer playing by his son. Nekrutman was replaced in Suicidal Tendencies by ex-Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg .
Sepultura’s Celebrating Life Through Death farewell tour continues with three dates in São Paulo, Brazil, from September 6 to 8. The band will start the European leg in October. See the list of dates below.
Oct 30: Paris Zenith, France Oct 31: Offenbach am Main Stadthalle, Germany Nov 01: Hamburg Edel Optics Arena, Germany Nov 02: Cologne Palladium, Germany Nov 03: Den Bosch The Rock Circus, Netherlands Nov 05: Brussels Ancienne Belgique, Belgium Nov 06: Esch-sur-Alzette Rockhal, Luxembourg Nov 08: Manchester Academy, UK Nov 09: Dublin Olympia Theatre, Ireland Nov 10: Belfast Telegraph Building, UK Nov 11: Glasgow Barrowland Ballroom, UK Nov 12: London Hammersmith Apollo, UK Nov 14: Zurich The Hall, Switzerland Nov 15: Ludwigsburg MHP Arena, Germany Nov 16: Munich Zenith, Germany Nov 17: Budapest Barba Negra, Hungary Nov 19: Leipzig Haus Auensee, Germany Nov 20: Vienna Gasometer, Austria Nov 21: Katowice Spodek, Poland Nov 22: Berlin Columbiahalle, Germany Nov 23: Prague O2 Universum, Czech Republic
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