Tag: Magnum

Here is Volume 3 of The Essential Series – Purist AOR.

There’s a slight improvement to be found on this Magnum albeit, not quite there but far better than the last…

Braced with trepidation for 2012’s ‘On The Thirteenth Day’, I wasn’t quite sure what I’d find, but I did come…

It pains me to say it, but with each passing year I feel less drawn to Magnum’s music. The excitement…

Magnum are now on the ‘please explain’ list, with a right of reserve to get it right for their next…

Released in September 1991, with little fanfare from Polydor, Magnum released a surprisingly good set of songs delivered during a…

It would be fair to say that this album is the least played of my Magnum CD’s in my collection,…

‘The Eleventh Hour’ was (in hindsight) not the strongest album from the Magnum back-catalog, and one can’t help feel the…

Following on from great albums such as ‘On A Storytellers Night’ and ‘Vigilante’, Magnum remained a European band that never…

Next to ‘On A Storytellers Night’, ‘Vigilante’ is my favourite Magnum album, in its simplicity is carried a message that…

It was during the 1980 Reading Festival that new keyboardist Mark Stanway would make his first appearance with Magnum. Interestingly,…

‘Kingdom of Madness’, as an album, may be ‘of its time’, but it’s still a good Magnum album in my…

The late 80’s was a period when Birmingham’s favourite sons Magnum were flying high. The third part of the Polydor…

For those of you who were disappointed with Magnum’s 2001’s ‘Breath Of Life’, or even 2004’s ‘Brand New Morning’, then…

‘Brand New Morning’ is an album that re-establishes Magnum’s identity from the 80’s, but still retains the leaner sound the…

This new Magnum album is on a par with their prior two albums from 2007 and 2014, returning to a…

Magnum’s 1985 effort is simply a ‘must-have’ album for any supporter of AOR and melodic rock.

Magnum can now consider themselves back in the game with a solid effort, very pleasing indeed and one that should…

Much of this Magnum album is not pastoral English countryside wimphem, and thank goodness for that. LOTRTE is pretty punchy…