One of the things I most love about music is that, 40+ years into my obsession, I am still finding longstanding bands with enormous catalogues who totally knock me out. Most are ones I’ve always known about but never did the deep dive - Focus and Meat Puppets are two of my more recent “discoveries”. My latest, however, is Magnum, which is a band I’d heard of for years but never actually checked out (for some reason I always assumed they were just a dumb-rock band like April Wine or something). I guess it’s better to be late to the party than to not show at all, because this band kicks ass. They rock, they prog, they don’t sing about dumb shit, and Tony Clarkin (RIP) can totally shred. After the usual YouTube dive, I came across a copy of their 1978 debut out in the wild, so I took that as a two-fold sign - it was time to give them a go & I would do so in chronological order (their next few albums are en route). I will reserve my usual verbose review until I get to know this band better but I look very forward to continuing on the path.
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