Iggor Cavalera continues exploring his early career Sepultura in the series Benearth The Drums , in which he shares behind-the-scenes anecdotes about the tracks and performs each one on drums. In the seventh episode, the musician revisited "Troops of Doom".
The track is part of Morbid Visions , the band's debut album, released in November 1986, and has strong sonic and lyrical influences from the Swiss band Celtic Frost . As Cavalera recalls in the video, the track remains in the artist's setlist to this day and represents "a chance to bring family members" to the stage. "It's a celebration of the past, but it's also a timeless song," he summarized.
Commenting on the recording of the track, Iggor mentioned the difficulties of explaining to the producers the sound the band was aiming for. “As far as I remember, we had two or three days to record the entire album. The producer at that time didn't quite understand what we were trying to do,” he recalled. “He couldn't understand how to use distortions and crazy elements in the 1980s. In Brazil, most people didn't understand the sound we were looking for.”
In an interview with The Wikimetal Happy Hour , Max Cavalera also commented on these technical and creative difficulties during the band's initial recordings. "The sound engineer wanted me to turn off the distortion and use a clean guitar. And I was trying to explain the sound to the guy," he recounted. The musician also mentioned that he would like to re-record this material with proper production and higher quality after the experience of revisiting "Antichrist" in Iggor's painting.
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