MAGNUS
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN:
POLAND
LOCATION:
WROCŁAW, LOWER SILESIA
STATUS:
ACTIVE
FORMED IN:
1987
GENRE:
DEATH/THRASH METAL
THEMES:
DEATH, DESTRUCTION, VIOLENCE, MADNESS, ANTI-FASCISM
CURRENT LABEL:
NUCLEAR WAR NOW! PRODUCTIONS
YEARS ACTIVE:
1987-1996, 2007-PRESENT
CONTACT: MAGNUSMETAL@WP.PL
FORMED BY WROCLAW VOCALIST ROB BANDIT, GUITARISTS PYTHON AND BASTARD, BASSIST EDI AND DRUMMER RAKU, WHICH STARTED OFF AS A POWER/SPEED METAL ACT IN 1987; THE SAME YEAR RECORDING THEIR DEBUT DEMO POWER METAL AND PERFORMING NUMEROUS CONCERTS IN THEIR HOME COUNTRY. THEY KEPT PLAYING SHOWS DURING 1988, IN JUNE ENTERING THE STUDIO TO RECORD THE DEMO TRASH SPEED BLOOD, INTRODUCING NEW STICKSMAN JARAS.
IN 1989 THE BAND COMPLETED A RELENTLESS GIG SCHEDULE; IN NOVEMBER RECORDING MATERIAL AT THE IZABELIN STUDIOS IN WARSAW FOR THE DEBUT ALBUM SCARLET SLAUGHTERER, RELEASED THROUGH MIL RECORDS IN DECEMBER.
IN 1989 THE BAND COMPLETED A RELENTLESS GIG SCHEDULE; IN NOVEMBER RECORDING MATERIAL AT THE IZABELIN STUDIOS IN WARSAW FOR THE DEBUT ALBUM SCARLET SLAUGHTERER, RELEASED THROUGH MIL RECORDS IN DECEMBER.
IN MARCH AND APRIL 1990 THE BAND PLAYED 3 GIGS IN MOSCOW, GOING THROUGH A NUMBER OF LINE-UP CHANGES AGAIN WITH THE REPLACEMENT OF WYJADŁOWSKI BY GUZZ AND ADDAGIO TAKING BASS DUTIES FROM JUSZCZAK. THIS NEW FORMATION GOT DOWN TO WORK ON NEW MATERIAL, INCLUDING “GODS OF THE CRIME” AND “THE REASON I WOULD LIKE YOU TO DIE”. THE THIRD DEMO THE GODS OF THE CRIME CAME OUT IN MAY. MORE FORMATION CHANGES FOLLOWED, INCORPORATING EX-OPEN FIRE BASSIST GREG.
IN 1992, MAGNUS STARTED WORKING ON NEW SONGS, SHARING STAGE ON POLISH FESTIVALS WITH NAPALM DEATH, DEICIDE, ATROCITY AND GOREFEST. FROM MAY TO JUNE AT THE IZABELIN STUDIOS 11 TRACKS WERE RECORDED, RELEASED ON THE GROUP’S SECOND ALBUM I WAS WATCHING MY DEATH, WHICH WAS DISTRIBUTED BY THE SWISS LABEL BLACKEND RECORDS. CARNAGE RECORDS ALMOST SIMULTANEOUSLY RELEASED 8 TRACKS FROM THAT SESSION UNDER A DIFFERENT TITLE, THE GODS OF THE CRIME (NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH THE 1991 DEMO WITH THE SAME TITLE) ON CASSETTE. DIGITON RELEASED A FEW WEEKS LATER THE DEBUT ALBUM ON CD.
AT THE BEGINNING OF 1993, THE BAND KEPT DOING MORE SHOWS AND SET ABOUT RECORDING THEIR THIRD ALBUM AT IZABELIN, ALCOHOLIC SUICIDE. DURING 1994 THEY WENT ON TOUR, APPEARING AT METALMANIA ’94 WITH MORBID ANGEL, SAMAEL AND CANNIBAL CORPSE. MAGNUS STARTED WORKING AT THE TIME ON A PUNK COVER RECORD FEATURING SONGS FROM THE EXPLOITED, YOUTH BRIGADE AND STIFF LITTLE FINGERS BUT THE PROJECT WAS SHELVED. THE BAND HAD THEIR LAST CONCERT AND REHEARSAL IN 1996. IN THE SAME YEAR THEY BROKE-UP.
BANDIT, PYTHON, GUZZ, GREG AND JARAS RESURRECTED THE GROUP IN 2010. ON 15TH SEPTEMBER, WITCHING HOUR PRODUCTIONS RELEASED ACCEPTANCE OF DEATH, WHICH WAS RECORDED AT TOWER STUDIO, DSP STUDIO AND ATK STUDIO, AND MIXED AT FONOPLASTYKON STUDIO BY MARCIN BORS.
IN 2011, ROB BANDIT, PYTHON, GUZZ AND MŁODY FROM BLOODLUST CREATED 13 NUMBERS FOR THE NEW 5TH ALBUM WITH THE WORKING TITLE "DEATH REVOLUTION". EDI (BASS) RETURNED TO THE LINE-UP IN 2012 AND IN THE SAME YEAR MAGNUS HAS RECORDED THIS TRACKS IN THE FOLLOWING LINE-UP: PYTHON (GUIT.), EDI (BG), ROB BANDIT (VOC.), MŁODY (DR.) BUT UNTIL TODAY IT'S NOT RELEASED.
COMPILATION APPEARANCE(S):
- "FALSE GOD" ON NECROLUST VOL 2 (METAL HAMMER, 2010)
courtesy of Encyclopaedia Metallum
