Jairo Guedes was the lead guitar

Lead guitar

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 player of Brazil

Brazil

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ian heavy metal

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band Sepultura

Sepultura

Sepultura is a Brazilian heavy metal band from Belo Horizonte, formed in 1984. The band was a major force in the death metal, thrash metal and ultimately groove metal realms during the late 1980s and early 1990s, with their later experiments melding nu metal, hardcore punk and industrial.Sepultura...

 prior to Andreas Kisser

Andreas Kisser

Andreas Rudolf Kisser is the lead guitarist for the metal band Sepultura as well as the rock supergroup HAIL!-Biography:...

. His recorded output with the band includes the Bestial Devastation

Bestial Devastation

Bestial Devastation is an EP by Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura, released in 1985 through Cogumelo Records. It is their first official release, and originally appeared alongside Overdose's Século XX as a split album...

(1985) EP

Extended play

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 and their first full-length, Morbid Visions

Morbid Visions

Morbid Visions is the debut album by Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura, released in 1986 through Cogumelo Records.While later albums have a more political edge, Morbid Visions is notable for "Satanic" themes...

(1986). When playing with Sepultura he used the alias "Tormentor", and on occasion, "Jairo T." Jairo also played guitar with The Mist, Overdose and Eminence, all metal bands from Brazil.

He left Sepultura in early 1987, claiming he was "looking for something different", musically speaking. He was replaced a week later by Andreas Kisser

Andreas Kisser

Andreas Rudolf Kisser is the lead guitarist for the metal band Sepultura as well as the rock supergroup HAIL!-Biography:...

. He is also father of Igor and Érico, 17 and 12 years old respectively. Nowadays he lives in Belo Horizonte

Belo Horizonte

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, Brazil. He remains good friends with the band to this day and often joins them at soccer matches. He recently appeared on Sepultura's latest DVD, Live in São Paulo

Live in São Paulo

Live In São Paulo is the second live album by Brazilian heavy metal band Sepultura. All the tracks were recorded on April 3, 2005, at a concert in São Paulo, Brazil. A DVD of the same name was also filmed at the show....

, playing guitar on the songs "Necromancer" and "Troops Of Doom", both of which appeared on the Sepultura studio album he contributed to, Morbid Visions.

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