DAVE GROHL Joins SEPULTURA For ‘Kaiowas’ Jam At Los Angeles Concert
Written by megarock on May 31, 2026
Former NIRVANA drummer and current FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl joined Brazilian/American thrashers SEPULTURA for a “Kaiowas” jam session during the latter band’s May 29 headlining concert at the Wiltern in Los Angeles, California. You can watch fan-filmed video footage of the performance below.
In a 2017 issue of U.K.’s Mojo magazine, Grohl named SEPULTURA‘s classic 1996 album “Roots” as one of the albums and songs that saved his life and shaped his sonic imagination. Dave told the magazine about the LP: “When I was young, my best friend was Jimmy. We were discovering music together, but we split paths around the time I discovered DEVO and he discovered LOVERBOY. That’s not exactly a two-way street. So as I was buying my GBH singles, Jimmy ordered a record by METALLICA. Three weeks later, I get the phone call: ‘Dude, get the fuck up here right now.’ He had just got the cassette of ‘Kill ‘Em All’. That’s where Jimmy and I met in the middle. At one point he discovered SEPULTURA — ‘Arise’ was the first one he got. I loved them. The first time they played Seattle, they were just ferocious. It wasn’t that groomed heavy metal aesthetic; there were dreadlocks everywhere and the guitars were tuned down to Z. [Krist] Novoselic [NIRVANA bassist] started getting into them too, and at one point we entertained the idea of having them open up for NIRVANA. It never happened… Then ‘Roots’ came out, produced by Ross Robinson and mixed by Andy Wallace: sonically the most powerful album I had ever heard. Made everything else sound like a flea fart. That record became the gauge for every studio album FOO FIGHTERS did for ten years. ‘That sounds pretty good, but see how it stands up to that SEPULTURA record…’ There’s no way we ever got anywhere close. But it gave you perspective — this is heavy. What you’re doing? It’s okay, but this is heavy.”
