So I was sitting here trying to decide what today's video would be. Thumbing through my collection of DVDs, looking in my media server and scoping around on YouTube when it hit me that today's video had to be from a classic 80's band. While digging through all the usual suspects, I stumbled over an old S.O.D. video and it was on. So today I bring you:Stormtroopers of Death, more commonly known as S.O.D., formed in New York in 1985. They are commonly credited as being among the first bands to fuse hardcore punk with thrash metal into a new sound dubbed crossover thrash. They have also been the target of controversy due to their politically-incorrect lyrics, in particular a track named "Speak English or Die".S.O.D. were made up of memebers of Anthrax (Scott Ian and Charlie Benante), Nuclear Assault (Danny Lilker) and Psychos (Billy Milano) after the idea for a drawing Scott Ian used to do if a character named "Sargent D". An interesting note of the band is that they release an album every seven years, and because of this, some fans were expecting a release in 2006. In 2005, Megaforce Records released a new S.O.D. live DVD, 20 Years of Dysfunction, and the label's website claimed that a new S.O.D. CD "will be forthcoming in the winter of 2005". That, coupled with Heather Lilker's statement that S.O.D. are under contract by Nuclear Blast to release one more album, it does appear that there will be a third record at some point.However, as of 2007, there is little chance the third studio album will emerge. Relations have soured to the extent of no further collaboration being discussed.

[ Sat, 26 May 2007 11:35:00 -0600 ]

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