Cost: $1.00
Quite happy to find this. The only Elixir material I was familiar with was the band's first album, and while curious what this EP would sound like, I wasn't particularly worried about any drastic style changes. The title track is more rocking and seems more in line with standard Saxon-ish NWOBHM than much of the epic metal of the Son of Odin album (which I always thought more closely paralleled USPM most of the time than NWOBHM). All of that said, it's still NWOBHM from a veteran band, and quite pleasant to listen to. Then "Death Toll" is vaguely reminiscent of newish Cloven Hoof. I suspect the "live" tracks are at best, live in studio--the Lethal Potion/Sovereign Remedy-era song is ok, and then of course the opening track from the debut album is my favorite thing on this. Nice little find.
