History Trivia / Magma

* DoingItForTheArt: Fifty-minute rock compositions featuring odd time signatures, copious displays of instrumental virtuosity, complex choral arrangements, and a complex, allegorical science fiction story sung in a completely made-up language? There's really only one way this could happen.

* CreatorCouple: Christian and Stella Vander were married for many years, though they are now divorced - apparently {{amicably|Divorced}}, seeing that they continue to [[WorkingWithTheEx work together]]. Stella and her current husband, Francis Linon, are also an example - in fact, he recorded much of ''Zëss'' and also mixed it. (Meanwhile, Stella and Francis' son Marcus sang on, recorded part of, and mastered ''Zëss'', while Stella and Christian's daughter Julie also sang on the album.)

* BigNameFan: Musicians Music/JohnLydon, [[Music/{{DeadKennedys}} Jello Biafra]], [[Music/{{Ulver}} Kristoffer Rygg]], Music/StevenWilson, [[Music/{{Opeth}} Mikael Åkerfeldt]], [[Music/CattleDecapitation Travis Ryan]], and Music/DeathspellOmega; as well as British world champion snooker player Steve Davis, who used some of his winnings to promote a series of concerts by the band; Chilean filmmaker Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky, who approached Magma and Music/PinkFloyd to score the soundtrack for his [[Film/JodorowskysDune unproduced adaptation]] of ''Literature/{{Dune}}''; and magician Penn Jillette, of Creator/PennAndTeller.

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: ''Zëss'' is a particularly extreme example, having been first written in 1977, first performed live in 1979, but not recorded in a studio performance until 2019. It's not their first composition from the '70s to be recorded much later, either - in particular, ''Köhntarkösz Anteria'' was released in 2004 and ''Ëhmëhntëhtt-Ré'' in 2009, and both are largely based on compositions from the 1970s. ''Félicité Thösz'' is the band's only full-length album, in fact, that was primarily composed after the 1970s, but it was written in 2001 and released in 2012, so this trope ''still'' applies!

* BigNameFan: Musicians Music/JohnLydon, [[Music/{{DeadKennedys}} Jello Biafra]], [[Music/{{Ulver}} Kristoffer Rygg]], Music/StevenWilson, [[Music/{{Opeth}} Mikael Åkerfeldt]], and Music/DeathspellOmega; as well as British world champion snooker player Steve Davis, who used some of his winnings to promote a series of concerts by the band; Chilean filmmaker Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky, who approached Magma and Music/PinkFloyd to score the soundtrack for his [[Film/JodorowskysDune unproduced adaptation]] of ''Literature/{{Dune}}''; and magician Penn Jillette, of Creator/PennAndTeller.

* BigNameFan: Musicians Music/JohnLydon, [[Music/{{DeadKennedys}} Jello Biafra]], [[Music/{{Ulver}} Kristoffer Rygg]], Music/StevenWilson, [[Music/{{Opeth}} Mikael Åkerfeldt]], and Music/DeathspellOmega, as well as British world champion snooker player Steve Davis, who used some of his winnings to promote a series of concerts by the band, and Chilean filmmaker Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky, who approached Magma and Music/PinkFloyd to score the soundtrack for his [[Film/JodorowskysDune unproduced adaptation]] of ''Literature/{{Dune}}''.

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: ''Zëss'' is a particularly extreme example, having been first written in 1977, first performed live in 1979, but not recorded in a studio performance until 2019. It's not their first composition from the '70s to be recorded much later, either.

* CreatorCouple: Christian and Stella Vander were married for many years, though they are now divorced - apparently {{amicably|Divorced}}, seeing that they continue to [[WorkingWithTheEx work together]]. Stella and her current husband, Marcus Linon, are also an example - in fact, he sang on ''Zëss'' and mixed and mastered it.

* BigNameFan: Musicians Music/JohnLydon, [[Music/{{Ulver}} Kristoffer Rygg]], Music/StevenWilson, [[Music/{{Opeth}} Mikael Åkerfeldt]], and Music/DeathspellOmega, as well as British world champion snooker player Steve Davis, who used some of his winnings to promote a series of concerts by the band, and Chilean filmmaker Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky, who approached Magma and Music/PinkFloyd to score the soundtrack for his [[Film/JodorowskysDune unproduced adaptation]] of ''Literature/{{Dune}}''.

* BigNameFan: Musicians Music/JohnLydon, [[Music/{{Ulver}} Kristoffer Rygg]], Music/StevenWilson, and [[Music/{{Opeth}} Mikael Åkerfeldt]], as well as British world champion snooker player Steve Davis, who used some of his winnings to promote a series of concerts by the band, and Chilean filmmaker Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky, who approached Magma and Music/PinkFloyd to score the soundtrack for his [[Film/JodorowskysDune unproduced adaptation]] of ''Literature/{{Dune}}''.
* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: A lot of their songs still have not been recorded in studio versions and have only been performed live. Naturally, this trope applies.

* BigNameFan: Musicians Music/JohnLydon, [[Music/{{Ulver}} Kristoffer Rygg]], Music/StevenWilson, and [[Music/{{Opeth}} Mikael Åkerfeldt]], as well as British world champion snooker player Steve Davis, who used some of his winnings to promote a series of concerts by the band, and Chilean filmmaker Creator/AlejandroJodorowsky, who approached Magma and Music/PinkFloyd to score the soundtrack for his unproduced adaptation of ''Literature/{{Dune}}''.

* BigNameFan: Musicians Music/JohnLydon, [[Music/{{Ulver}} Kristoffer Rygg]], Music/StevenWilson, and [[Music/{{Opeth}} Mikael Åkerfeldt]], as well as British world champion snooker player Steve Davis, who used some of his winnings to promote a series of concerts by the band.

* BigNameFan: Musicians [[Music/SexPistols John]] [[Music/PublicImageLtd Lydon]], [[Music/{{Ulver}} Kristoffer Rygg]], [[Music/PorcupineTree Steven Wilson]], and [[Music/{{Opeth}} Mikael Åkerfeldt]], as well as British world champion snooker player Steve Davis, who used some of his winnings to promote a series of concerts by the band.

* Creator/HRGiger designed the cover for ''Attahk''.

* Creator/HRGiger designed the cover for Attahk.