Tröjan: The Complete Tröjan & Taliön Recordings – 84 – 90, 5CD Box Set

• 49-track, 5 disc box set encompassing the career of British speed metal act Tröjan, including recordings made under the band’s temporary moniker Taliön, featuring two full albums, plus live tracks and extensive and unreleased demos.

CD 1 features the debut Tröjan full length studio album, ‘Chasing The Storm’, originally released in 1985, while CD 2 features a full Tröjan live set recorded at the Dynamo Club in Eindhoven, Holland.

CD 3 features the full-length studio album ‘Killing The World’, originally released in 1989, and recorded under the name Taliön, while CD 4 features a full Taliön live set recorded in Bulgaria, plus additional demo tracks. CD 5 features rare and unreleased Tröjan demos.

Originally founded in Wigan in 1982 by guitarist Pete Wadeson, Tröjan played an aggressive hybrid of speed and thrash metal, playing a riff heavy brand of metal that drew comparisons to Motorhead and Metallica, while retaining the melodic precision of the NWOBHM era.

The band’s debut album was released on Roadrunner in 1985, with the band having previously debuted a track on the Ebony Records compilation ‘Metal Maniaxe’ in 1982.

Resurfacing under the name Taliön in 1988, they released the intense ‘Killing The World’ via Major Records, an offshoot of Peaceville Records, in 1989.

Now reformed and performing once again under the name Tröjan, this release features extensive liner notes, photos, and archive material supplied by band mainstay Pete Wadeson.

TRACK LISTING

CD 1 – Chasing The Storm
1 Chasing The Storm
2 Tonight We’ve Got It Made
3 Only The Strong Survive
4 Hypnotized
5 Backstabber
6 Icehouse
7 Take No Prisoners
8 Hot ‘N’ Ready
9 Help Me
10 Aggressor

CD 2 – Capturing The Storm – Live At The Dynamo Club
1 Backstabber (live)
2 Tonight We’ve Got It Made (live)
3 Only The Strong Survive (live)
4 Hypnotized (live)
5 Take No Prisoners (live)
6 Hot ‘N’ Ready (live)
7 Help Me (live)
8 Icehouse (live)
9 Aggressor (live)
10 Chasing The Storm (live)

CD 3 – Killing The World
1 Killing The World
2 Sanctuary
3 Living On The Edge
4 Speed Thrills
5 Laws Of Retaliation
6 Screamin’ For Mercy
7 Premonition

CD 4 – Live In Bulgaria, and Demos
1 Killing The World (live)
2 Sanctuary (live)
3 The Punishment Befits The Crime (live)
4 Living On The Edge (live)
5 Screamin’ For Mercy (live)
6 Killing The World (demo)
7 Living On The Edge (demo)
8 Sanctuary (demo)
9 Screamin’ For Mercy (demo)

CD 5 – Tröjan Demos
1 Chasing The Storm (demo)
2 Tonight We’ve Got It Made (demo)
3 Only The Strong Survive (demo)
4 Hypnotized (demo)
5 Backstabber (demo)
6 Icehouse (demo)
7 Hot ‘N’ Ready (demo)
8 Help Me (demo)
9 Aggressor (demo)
10 Bring On The Night (demo)
11 Young Wild Fast ‘N’ Free (demo)
12 Backstabber (demo version 2)
13 Icehouse (demo version 2)