I’ve met Matthias when we played with Exumer in Sao Paulo back in 1988…
It was one of the first big shows we did in Brazil and we didn’t do any tours outside our country at that time, so meeting Matthias was very motivating for us, a gringo that liked our music and a guy who was in Germany when everything started: Kreator, Sodom, Destruction and the bands that came to play in Europe during that time like Metallica, Anthrax and Exodus, meeting him we felt a little closer to that scene. Back then Matthias helped Sepultura a lot putting us to play with Nuclear Assault in Sao Paulo , one of the best shows in our history. We felt we were getting ready to conquer the world and Matthias was giving us a little taste of it. We are still good friends, he embraced Brazil as his second home, speaks great Portuguese and still loves metal, a real legend from metal history.
Abraço