Bass and backing vocals are done by Mats “Fox” Skinner, a founding member of Grand Magus, who is also bassist in Bajen Death Cult. Sebastian “Seb” Sippola is the drummer, who joined Grand Magus in April 2006, also drummer in Plankton, ex-Fortune, ex-Four Sticks, ex-Southfork, ex-Glenn Hughes. Fredrik ‘Trisse’ Liefvendahl played drums from 1996 to 2006. The band have released five albums to date: a self-titled effort in 2001 (re-released in 2005 as an expanded version with three bonus tracks), Monument (2003), Wolf’s Return (2005), Iron Will, released Monday 9th June 2008. In December 2009 Magus signed to Roadrunner Records, with their fifth studio album Hammer Of The North being released in June 2010. On 11th May 2010 the opening track to ‘Hammer…’, I, The Jury, was released for free on Roadrunner’s German website, making the album one of the year’s most anticipated metal releases. A month later, the band released a video for the title track. |
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