1. Andreas Kisser has been featured on every Sepultura release since their second album, Schizophrenia.
28 Facts About Andreas Kisser
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Andreas Kisser's father was a mechanical engineer and his mother was a teacher and amateur artist.
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At an early age, Andreas Kisser showed an interest in music.
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Andreas Kisser received his first acoustic guitar from his grandmother and later won a second guitar at a game of Bingo.
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Andreas Kisser eventually got his first electric guitar, a Giannini-Supersonic, and an overdrive pedal.
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Andreas Kisser started performing in 1984 in a three-piece band called Esfinge, which he formed with school friends and where he played guitar and sang.
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In 1987, Andreas Kisser met the members of Sepultura and went to see the band play live while he was on a vacation trip to Belo Horizonte.
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On Schizophrenia and Beneath the Remains, Andreas Kisser co-wrote the lyrics with Max, whereas the whole band wrote the music.
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Andreas Kisser has occasionally provided backing vocals both live and on the records.
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Andreas Kisser fronted the band in 1996, at the Castle Donington Monsters of Rock festival, when Max Cavalera was forced to absent himself in order to attend the funeral of his stepson Dana Wells.
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In 2001 Andreas Kisser worked alongside Tony Bellotto, Eduardo de Queiros, Charles Gavin on the score of the award-winning crime film Bellini and the Sphinx.
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Andreas Kisser collaborated again on the soundtrack for the 2008 sequel Bellini and the Devil.
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Between 1995 and 1996 Andreas Kisser recorded a number of demo tracks with Jason Newsted and Tom Hunting under different monikers.
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In 1996 Andreas Kisser renewed his collaboration with Newsted on another project called Godswallop which included Carl Coletti on drums and Sofia Ramos on vocals.
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Andreas Kisser has been featured on the album of bands such as Asesino, Astafix, Biohazard, Burning in Hell, Claustrofobia, Korzus, Krusader, Nailbomb, Ratos de Porao and The AK Corral.
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In 2005, Andreas Kisser took part in the recording of the Roadrunner United album.
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In 2008 Andreas Kisser worked on a Brazilian Beatles tribute album Album Branco, which was recorded at the Bavini Studio in Sao Paulo.
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Andreas Kisser played guitar on the tracks Piggies and Helter Skelter.
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Beside his work as musician, Andreas Kisser has been involved in projects as producer.
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In 1992 Andreas Kisser co-produced Hammerhead's album Shadow of a Time to Be.
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Andreas Kisser had been recommended to Metallica through Phil Rind of Sacred Reich who was well acquainted with Jason Newsted.
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In 2011, Andreas Kisser replaced Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian for some European tour dates, including the Big 4 Sonisphere Festival shows in Gothenburg, Sweden as well as Knebworth, UK and Amneville, France, as Ian and his wife Pearl Aday were expecting the birth of their first child.
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Andreas Kisser played a few concerts with Brazilian Beatles cover band Clube Big Beatles in The Cavern Club in Liverpool and, in August 2012, was given his own brick in the Cavern Club's wall of fame.
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Andreas Kisser thus became the first Brazilian to have one, and the first modern metal guitarist to be honored in that way.
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Andreas Kisser has been endorsing Fender guitars since 2002 and Seizi guitars since 2011.
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Andreas Kisser's guitars are tuned to D standard and Bb standard.
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Andreas Kisser endorses Mesa Boogie and Meteoro Amplifiers, a Brazilian company that released his signature amplifier models.
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Andreas Kisser uses a MXR Carbon Copy and his signature Cry Baby Wah for effects when playing live.