Grand Magus "Wolf God (Japan, Ward Records, GQCS-90704)"

Grand Magus ninth album, Wolf God, was released on 19 April 2019. The band had scheduled a European tour for March/April 2022, but due to COVID, they called off the tour and will instead spend the year recording a new album, to be released in 2023 and supported by a different tour that year.

Tracklist:

1. Intro: Gold and Glory 02:18
2. Wolf God 03:49  
3. A Hall Clad in Gold 05:02   
4. Brother of the Storm 03:16   
5. Dawn of Fire 05:12  
6. Spear Thrower 02:55
7. To Live and to Die in Solitude 03:41
8. Glory to the Brave 05:15  
9. He Sent Them All to Hel 03:37   
10. Untamed 03:46  

Time:  38:51  

Recording information:

Recorded at The Sweetspot Studio, Sweden, October/November 2018.

Track 1 mixed at Big Island Sound Studio 1, Stockholm, Sweden.

Mastered at Finnvox, Helsinki, Finland.

Grand Magus "Sword Songs (Japan, Chaos Reigns, GQCS-90147)"

Grand Magus' eighth album, Sword Songs was released on 13 May 2016. The songs were recorded during the midwinter months of 2015–16, produced by Nico Elgstrand. On the lead-up to the release, JB commented: "We put all of our sweat, blood and tears into this new album and I think that you can hear that. For me, Sword Songs is the best Grand Magus album ever! The new songs are faster and more aggressive than on Triumph and Power — and we have also included some more extreme and harder stuff. I’m convinced that there are some future classics on the disc!" 

A cover version of Deep Purple's "Stormbringer" was included as a bonus track on the limited edition CD version, the first cover released in the band's history.

Tracklist:

1. Freja's Choice 04:00  
2. Varangian 03:40   
3. Forged in Iron - Crowned in Steel 05:38  
4. Born for Battle (Black Dog of Brocéliande) 03:41  
5. Master of the Land 03:51  
6. Last One to Fall 04:01
7. Frost and Fire 03:16   
8. Hugr 02:07  
9. Every Day There's a Battle to Fight 04:31
10. In for the Kill 03:36   
11. Stormbringer (Deep Purple cover) 05:05  

Time:  43:26  

Recording information:

Recorded during mid-winter 2015-2016 at various studios:

　－Drums at Top Floor Studios in Helsinki, Finland.

　－Guitars, bass and vocals at Studio Supa in Stockholm, Sweden.

Assistant engineering at Top Floor Studios in Helsinki, Finland.

Mixed at Oral Majority Recordings in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Mastered at Chartmakers, Espoo, Finland.

Grand Magus "Triumph And Power (Limited Edition Digipak, Germany, Nuclear Blast, 27361-37070)"

Triumph and Power is the seventh full-length album by Swedish heavy metal band Grand Magus. It was released on January 31, 2014 on Nuclear Blast. Vocalist JB Christofferson described the album as "really powerful, majestic and less 'hard rocky' than" previous album, The Hunt (2012). Christofferson described Triumph and Power as "really the essence of this band".

Grand Magus continued its concern with obtaining a strong drum sound, which Christofferson identified as a reaction against the strong focus on the guitar sound. He noted that in heavy metal the drums are extremely important, maybe more important than many people realize. There has been a tendency in "modern" metal to focus too much on a fat guitar sound, resulting in really weak sounding or fake sounding drums. In my experience, the fat guitar sound is a result of the combination of drums and bass guitar, rather than using all space/frequencies for the guitars. You have to have a really solid foundation to make things explode, hence the focus on the drums.

Track listing

1. "On Hooves of Gold" - 5:24
2. "Steel versus Steel" - 5:19
3. "Fight" - 4:06
4. "Triumph and Power" - 4:52
5. "Dominator" - 4:20
6. "Arv" - 1:57
7. "Holmgång" - 3:38
8. "The Naked and the Dead" - 3:02
9. "Ymer" - 2:54
10. "The Hammer Will Bite" - 6:54
11. "Blackmoon" - 3:45 (Digipack Bonus Track)

Recording information:

Recorded between September and November 2013.

Drums recorded at The Sweetspot Studio, Sweden.

All other parts recorded at Studio Wahnsinn and Studio Supa.