Sepultura Play Final Show At Massively Downgraded Venue

Sepultura's farewell show didn't happen the way that the Brazilian metal titans envisioned it. The band originally planned to play their final show at São Paulo's Pacaembu Stadium, an important venue for the band. But when the show happened on Saturday night, they had to move it to the same city's Suhai Music Hall, a much smaller venue.Some context is necessarily here. Sepultura are one of the greatest and most important metal bands in history, and their classics from the '80s and '90s remain influential today. In Brazil, they're national heroes. They're certainly the biggest international rock band ever to come from Brazil. Part of the reason that they wanted to play at Pacaembu Stadium in the first place was the iconic 1991 show where the band played to tens of thousands of Brazilian fans in Praça Charles Miller, just outside the stadium.As huge as Sepultura were in Brazil, though, the current version of the band is a distant echo of what it once was. Founding frontman Max Cavalera left Sepultura in 1996, and his drummer brother Iggor quit the band in 2006. The Cavalera brothers feuded with each other for many years, but they have since made up, and they play together in the Cava...