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Japanese hard rock / heavy metal band formed by Tatsuya (Paul) Umehara, and Satoshi (Jimmy) Hirose, and became popular in 80's. They toured internationally until 1989... In 2002, they re-grouped and released their 1st (new) album after 13 years-- "IGNITION" -- featuring songs in English...(not including the 2 prior anthology compilition albums in 2000 & 2001) ....Now they turned into nu-metal with industrial elements. JULY 2009-- The Band is currently in recording on a much anticipated ** NEW** ALBUM ... to be released MID SEPT 2009. It features the ORIGINAL MEMBERS - AND SPECIAL GUEST ARTISTS tba. .

There are several artists by this name: 1) Magnum are a British melodic rock band from Birmingham England. Formed in 1972, Magnum have undergone several changes in personnel over the years but the singer-songwriter core of Bob Catley and Tony Clarkin remain today. Keyboard player Mark Stanway joined in 1980. Bassist from 1976 - 95 was Wally Lowe and drummers were Kex Gorin until 1984, Jim Simpson in 1985 and Mickey Barker from 1985 until the band split in December 1995. Magnum reformed in 2002 with Al Barrow on bass and have used drummers Harry James and Jimmy Copley. Magnum...

Opus Magnum, is an album of Hollenthon- a Swiss Symphonic Death Metal band , not a band name. .

Swedish rockgroup formed 1978. .

There are two bands with the name Magnum Opus: 1. A heavy metal band from New Zealand which is no-longer active 2. A doujin band that make instrumental progressive metal/rock arrangements of songs from the soundtracks of the Touhou series of danmaku games .