Personal top 5 lp from UK ( almost lethal potion is there also)!Soon i'll have to buy it again (and more expensive than the original lp + 7" single combined!)
Of course, i didn't discover them through the regular big magazines ( occasionally i used them as a guide of what to avoid), but from word of mouth, fanzines, tape-trading etc. Certainly, i'm not a freak of evolution or nostalgic dinosaur, there's was a lot of rip off going on back in the day, etc, etc... Now everything is easier and of course no more blind purchases ( although i find it painful that the best tracks of the latest helloween album weren't on the actual vinyl- no i didn't, neither i'll buy the japanese cds!)
You can pick up all of Elixir's CDs (including 'Sovereign Remedy', the ORIGINAL version of 'Lethal Potion') from here: http://www.coldtown.com/ ... the new band, Midnight Messiah, are well worth a listen, too