S.O.D. (Stormtroopers of Death) was created by Anthrax’s guitarist, Scott Ian, as a side project for his crossover ideas. During a tour with Anthrax, the band was stranded for a while and Scott started drawing sketches of what is now known as Sargeant D. While the band is highly regarded as one of the first “crossover” bands in metal and hardcore punk, the band has suffered huge amounts of criticism from the media for their very offensive humor, and also other bands within the hardcore punk community, ranging from Sore Throat, Extreme Noise Terror and so on for being a “unorthodox” style hardcore band because of all the fame they’ve received from being a hardcore band.