Although it was released until 1986 - by which time the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal had run its course - Elixir's The Son Of Odin' is still heralded as a masterpiece of the movement; and rightly so. The band had come together in London in 1983 and infused their love of traditional metal (citing records like Michael Schenker's first MSG album, and Judas Priest's British Steel' as defining the sound of Eighties metal for the five musicians) with more contemporary influences like Mercyful Fate and Queensryche. "In the early days [we] wanted to be a kind of progressive metal band, writing long pieces of music with lots of time and tempo changes," says guitarist Phil Denton; "that's how songs like Death Toll' and The Idol' were developed.
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