This Former Sepultura Guitarist Band Will Release Prelude To Blasphemy May 12

The Troops OF Doom (Instagram @thetropofvises)

JAKARTA - The Troops Of Doom, a Brazilian band featuring former Sepultura guitarist, Jairo "Tormentor" Guedz, will release Prelude to Blasphemy on May 12.

After completing three years of his existence last March, The Troops Of Doom has the idea of recording two new songs.

This was done to celebrate an important milestone in the band's history formed by Guedz, Alex Kafer (vocals and bass), Marcelo Vasco (guitar), and Alexandre Oliveira (drums).

Prelude to Blasphemy will feature two new songs and the first two EPs (mini albums), The Rise Of Heresy (2020) and The Absent Of Light (2021), as bonuses.

The material will be released in the form of CD digipacked via Alma Mater Records, in the CD slipcase via Voice Music in Brazil, while digital distribution will be handled by Blood Blast, a digital subsidiary of the German label Nuclear Blast. The cover art is painted by Maramgoni.

"Maramgoni is doing an amazing job! He is also our cover author of The Absent Of Light", Vasco said in his statement.

The mixing and mastering sessions were handled by Leonardo Pagani.

"Pagani did an amazing job, bringing a lot of quality to his voice, but without losing the old school tone and the low-fi touch we've always been looking for in our production", Kafer commented.

Meanwhile, about one of the unpublished songs, 1666, Guedz explained that his theme was related to the intense fires in London.

"The song 1666 was inspired by a major London fire, one of the biggest disasters in the UK, which caused death, thousands of people lost their homes, countless public buildings were destroyed and nearly 90 churches burned," he said.

"There are dark times because in this period there was an outbreak of the last bubonic disease in England. Cover art describes little of it all and, obviously, we still maintain that aesthetic relationship with my time with Sepultura," concluded Guedz.