Tag: Magnum

The last ever recording of Tony Clarkin and Bob Catley performing Magnum songs together was made on 10 December 2022 and in Bob’s words it was “….the perfect evening. We finished our ‘The Monster Roars’ tour in Wolverhampton, KK’s Steel…

Here Comes the Rain is Magnum’s twenty-third studio album, released on 3rd January this year, just five days before the death of the band’s co-founder, guitarist, and songwriter Tony Clarkin. In these sad circumstances, this review will inevitably pay tribute…

These days, there is often debate on the many social platforms out there as to which group or artist is the most underappreciated, one that is often overlooked and should be more widely known. Maybe Magnum would be named in…

A year since the release of their most recent studio album, The Serpent Rings, Magnum return with a compilation of bonus tracks and radio edits which are debuting on the CD format. Recent efforts like Escape From the Shadow Garden…

One of the treats of being a prog fan is receiving any copy of a new album adorned with the fantasy art of either Roger Dean or Rodney Matthews. Matthews has taken on the duties once again to produce a…

It’s been rather a few years since I last listened to Magnum, a band pretty familiar to me from my youth in Birmingham, where they were a steady fixture and a perennial support, but gradually after many years built their…