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Massive Attack have announced a landmark live performance in São Paulo, organised in direct collaboration with Indigenous peoples of the Amazon. Scheduled for the 13th of November at the Espaço Unimed arena, the event coincides with the COP30 International Climate Summit, which will be held in Belém, in the heart of Brazil’s Amazon region.
The pioneering UK group will be joined by Brazilian metal icons CAVALERA, the project of brothers Iggor and Max Cavalera, co-founders of Sepultura, who are set to perform their 1993 classic album Chaos A.D. in full. Together, the artists aim to use the show as a cultural and political platform for the voices of the Amazon G9, the alliance of Indigenous organisations spanning nine Amazonian countries.
In an official statement, the artists described the event as a means to “support, platform & give full voice to the efforts of the Indigenous people of Brazil and the Amazon G9 to achieve climate justice, and immediate recognition and protection of Indigenous lands.”
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Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack said, “We’re honoured to collaborate with Iggor & Max in support of the extraordinary integrity and vital role of the Indigenous people of Brazil and the wider Amazon region. This is more than a passing of the mic. It’s an opportunity to listen to the knowledge, moral authority and wisdom of the Indigenous alliances and help ensure they are heard in the negotiation rooms of COP30. We’ve never needed their presence within that distorted political space as much as we do right now.”
In a joint statement, CAVALERA added, “In times when polarisation is so present, when people feel divided and distracted, we are honoured to join forces with Massive Attack and the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil and the Amazon to weave a narrative of positivity and change. We’ve fostered a close relationship with Indigenous communities for many years — it’s a privilege to share this stage.”
A powerful declaration from Indigenous organisations COIAB, APIB, and the G9 reads: “Together with Massive Attack and Cavalera, we turn sound into uprising. Our voices — alive, ancestral, untamed — will cut through the air, cross every border, and unite peoples, from the Amazon to the Pacific. We are the roots that resist, the future that insists… The Answer Is Us. All of us. And we will advance.”
The São Paulo event arrives as a prolific and potent convergence of cultural action and political urgency, using music as a medium to amplify Indigenous resistance and environmental justice on the global stage.
