Magnum Music

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Decades: 1970's, 1980's, and 1990's

This band must be the poster child of the "no one in the U.S. has ever heard of them despite an illustrious career elsewhere school" of progressive rock. With 2002's Breath of Life bringing their studio album total to 11, fewer people in the United States have heard of this group than have heard of Hawkwind, Max Webster, or Nektar (three other bands from that same alma mater). Magnum got its start in Birmingham, England, in the mid-'70s. The band's first album, Kingdom of Madness, came out in 1978, right in... Read More