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 monik...