Description

Mini cd replica of the legendary NWoBHM single from Elixir. Original artwork, layout design, and the same tracks like on the original single. Official reissue authorized by the band in a limited run of 500 copies only. At the time of their 1986 debut album, The Son of Odin, London’s Elixir were given the dubious distinction of being one of the last bands to be broadly associated, tagged if you will, with the already mostly in disuse New Wave of British Heavy Metal categorization. Obviously due in part to the musical characteristics on display, this was also the result of their having been formed as far back as 1983, when the movement was still peaking, and guitarist Phil Denton and the Dobbs brothers, Kevin (bass) and Nigel (drums), first started working together under such short-lived monikers as Purgatory and Hellfire. By the end of the following year, vocalist Paul Taylor (ex-Midas) and Irish guitarist Norman Gordon had also joined the team, and the officially renamed Elixir could be found actively storming the stages of London’s pubs and clubs alongside fellow N.W.O.B.H.M. latecomers like Tokyo Blade and Chariot. But Elixir’s demos failed to impress prospective record labels, and when certain members of the metal press rashly prejudged them mere Iron Maiden clones, the boys took matters into their own hands by self-releasing their first single, “Treachery” (b/w “Winds of Time”), in mid-1985. Drawing comparisons to epic metal legends like Rainbow and, naturally, Maiden, the single earned the approval of influential DJ Tommy Vance, who offered Elixir a session on his popular Friday Rock Show in February 1986.

Track listing:
1. Treachery (Ride Like The Wind)
2. Winds Of Time