MAGNUS - Dignity, Truth, Dying, Metal! [BOXED SET]

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INCLUDES SIX CDS, SIX POSTCARDS, AND AN 80-PAGE HARDCOVER—PERFECT FOR COLLECTORS AND FANS! LIMITED TO 200 COPIES!

THE STORY OF MAGNUS FROM 1987 UNTIL 1996

Spikes. Leather. Over-the-top attitude. Broken English lyrics full of swear words. And manic speed/thrash riffing. Shitloads of it. It may sound like a crude and a tad too cliché description yet it fits MAGNUS like a glove. To say that one of Poland most famous extreme metal pioneers had to face insane struggle and obstacles in their early days while the Iron Curtain was just starting to crumble and soon to collapse would be quite a wild understatement.

Spearheaded by Robert Szymański - aka ‘Rob Bandit’ - on vocals and Maciej Puto – aka ‘Python’ – on guitar and fueled by an unbridled passion for all things metal, although they started out as a more regular heavy metal outfit, they soon raised the bar in terms of speed and sonic violence, with the kind of raw energy one could seemingly find in the Eastern Bloc scene in the mid/late 80s.

This limited boxset documents the first chapter of the band, stretching from 1987 until their initial split in 1996. What you have here are three killer albums – 1989’s Scarlet Slaughterer, 1992’s I Was Watching My Death and the overlooked Alcoholic Suicide – plus three demos – 1987 aptly titled Power Metal, 1988’s Trash Speed Blood and 1991’s The Gods of the Crime. This impressive body of work showcases the rapid evolution of a young yet hungry set of musicians determined never to stand still nor pay attention to the trends, no matter what they were. Thanks to Rob Bandit, we decided to have a look in the rearview mirror and start from the very beginning, all the way to the end. Of what was supposed, at least, to be the end, until the band decided to come back in full force in 2007… But that’s another story, to be told another time.

Olivier ‘Zoltar’ Badin,
Paris,
July 2025

■ Power Metal (1987)
■ Trash Speed Blood (1988)
■ Scarlet Slaughterer (1989)
■ The Gods of the Crime (1991)
■ I Was Watching My Death (1992)
■ Alcoholic Suicide (1994)

Out on October 31, 2025