Chase the Dragon and On a Storyteller’s Night are the sturdier, rockier picks of the Magnum back catalogue but they reached their peak of life-affirming, pop rock joy with Wings of Heaven: one of the most feelgood albums ever created. Tony Clarkin writing simple, catchy AOR rockers par excellence delivered with winning passion and panache by the ever-lovable Bob Catley. Boaby sings like he would take bullets for Magnum. “It’s a flame that keeps burning… everLASTing torrrchhhh!”, “Too old to die young, too big to cry… MAMA!” The guy’s a total hero. As soon as he chimes in on genius opener Days of No Trust (“Pray to the future…”) you are on your feet. The album continues with the vista of Wild Swan and the sublime power pop of Start Talking Love. Classics all. Different Worlds is a mid-album lull but Pray for the Day and the WWI epic Don’t Wake the Lion (Too Old to Die Young) end the album with weight and compassion: breathtaking, heartrending but still triumphant, mighty and melodic. It’s a colossal climax to an excellent album. File this in your collection alongside your Jovi, Lep and Whitesnake and it won’t be long before it steals your heart. A heavenly magnum opus.
[Magnum – Days of No Trust]
HEAVY METAL OVERLOAD 
I have never heard this band. I may have to check them out further. The reviews for their new album look positive.
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I’ve lost track of their recent career. I got one album a few years back and it was disappointing but I’d like to catch up on their stuff cause they have been getting good reviews.
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Good singer.
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Good frontman too, always liked his mysterious hand gestures!
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I’m liking the track you posted. Not “heavy” but definitely with some of the epic rock qualities I like.
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Yeah Magnum aren’t heavy at all. Just great melodic rock.
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I didn’t guess that from the name! I never heard of Magnum until well after I started at the record store. One guy traded in a bunch of CDs by Boaby Cately, whom I had never heard of. I think on the front cover he was standing in front of a castle. Guarding it, I would imagine.
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Daft Boaby! Not knowing he’d be better off guarding castles from the inside!
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He appeared to be unarmed! Unless there was a sword in his cloak.
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I’m sure he intended to distract his foes with his mysterious hand gestures.
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That could be. Were his hand gestures more or less powerful than Ronnie James Dio’s?
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Less powerful… but more mysterious.
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It’s always a mystery, not what it seems to be.
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Little known fact, every member of this band is a private investigator by day.
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Also: Yet another Boaby! They’re everywhere!
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Cool review of a band I’d never heard of either (I’m with Bop). After just playing DL’s Vault, not sure I need more of this stuff in my life right now but hey, one never knows!
Two metal horns up for new HMO content!
\m/ 🙂 \m/
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People never heard of Magnum?! Savages from the other side of the world, I say!
Being the trivial person I am, the cover of this one always put me off it, a bit too windswept for my tastes.
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Have you got Vigilante? The cover of that is MENTAL.
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It’s a bit, My Little Pony isn’t it?
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Yep. On Drugs. If you like that album you’d like this one.
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I often see Magnum albums but always thought they’d be a bit … y’know … heavy and maybe cheesy heavy. But seems I was wrong!! Though I couldn’t file it next to Jovi, cause that means I’d be immediately chucking this in the bin! Ha!
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Well, they don’t really sound like any of those bands… but they’re in that pop metal territory. You could call it cheesy but I prefer to call it a thoroughly good time! I’d start with the other two albums I mentioned first though if you’d rather it was a bit rockier.
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Duly noted – I’m fairly certain the Record Fayre often has some of their LPs … though I do like the album cover for this one. I need that in my collection.
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It’s very windswept and interesting. Nice colours too. I bought this copy in Record Fayre actually!
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Record Fayre rocks!
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Not been in ages either! Every time I go there it’s bloody shut.
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I’ve been caught out a few times forgetting that it’s closed on a Monday!
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