Dave Grohl joins Sepultura for surprise drumming jam in Los Angeles

Dave Grohl turned Sepultura’s final U.S. stop into a drummer’s event, sliding into the band’s farewell set at The Wiltern in Los Angeles and locking into Kaiowas during a percussion jam that hit like a full-circle salute. What could have been a novelty guest spot instead felt built for the room: heavy, communal, and centered on the kind of rhythm-first tension that has always made Sepultura stand apart.

The appearance came on Friday, May 29, 2026, at the band’s last American concert on its North American farewell tour. Live Nation billed the date as Sepultura - Celebrating Life Through Death Final North American Tour at The Wiltern, with doors at 5:30 PM and the show running from 9:25 PM to 11:00 PM. Setlist data lists a 19-song set, with Kaiowas placed mid-show as the anchor for the jam that brought Grohl onstage.

Grohl did not crash the song from the margins. He slotted into the performance alongside Derrick Green and the rest of Sepultura’s farewell-tour lineup, which also includes Andreas Kisser, Paulo Jr., and Greyson Nekrutman. That detail mattered: this was not a detached celebrity cameo, but a drumming conversation inside a band built on aggressive, tribal, and percussive textures. For a group whose live identity has long leaned on rhythm as much as riff, Grohl fit the song’s pulse instead of overpowering it.

Kaiowas gives the moment even more weight. The instrumental originally appeared on Sepultura’s 1993 album Chaos A.D., and its open-ended, percussion-heavy structure made it the right place for a guest appearance that needed space to breathe. Grohl’s presence also carried obvious credibility. He has previously praised Sepultura’s Roots as a benchmark for Foo Fighters recordings, which made the crossover feel less like a surprise booking and more like a respected peer stepping into a band he has long admired.

The cameo landed at a pivotal point in Sepultura’s long goodbye. The band’s farewell campaign is framed as the Celebrating Life Through Death world tour, a 40-year sendoff that now has only one final chapter left: Nov. 7, 2026, at Mercado Livre Arena Pacaembu in São Paulo, Brazil. With Grohl in the mix at The Wiltern, the Los Angeles date stopped being just another nostalgia stop and became one of those rare farewell-tour moments that drummers, metal fans, and everyone who loves a locked-in groove will remember.