YMMV / Magma

• Archive Panic: As attested by the lengthy discography on the main page - and then the fact that the band spawned enough spin-offs to start its own subgenre. That said, Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh seems to be an especially common starting point into the band. The 2000 Trilogie au Trianon, K.A., and Félicité Thösz are also frequently recommended places to start.
• Awesome Music: Nearly all of it. Any live recording by the band is bound to feature copious amounts of this, and the Theusz Hamtaahk and Köhntarkösz trilogies are also excellent sources. From their more recent material, Félicité Thösz and Zëss are beautiful albums, and probably as good starting places as any.
• Dead Horse Genre: A potential criticism of the band. Then again, Johnny Rotten is a fan...
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh is certainly the band's most popular and enduring album (seen in the number of different performances of it that have been released throughout the years), but a number of their other albums have plenty of fans, particularly Ẁurdah Ïtah, Köhntarkösz, Köhntarkösz Anteria, Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré, Félicité Thösz, and Zëss, not to mention their live material, which is probably as highly regarded as their studio material among those who've listened to it.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Most fans don't speak too highly of Merci. It was still included in the band's Studio Zünd box set, though, and the band still occasionally performs a couple of tracks from it live, so Canon Discontinuity does not apply.
• Gateway Series: For jazz, thanks to the prominent and obvious influence John Coltrane and Leon Thomas in particular have on their music. Thomas' work with Pharoah Sanders (Karma, most famously), plus A Love Supreme-era Coltrane, arguably qualify as proto-zeuhl. It is also possible that Magma serves the reverse purpose for jazz listeners to get into rock.
• Growing the Beard: Their first two albums are solid, but not unique, Progressive Rock. Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh is where they established the classic zeuhl sound.
• Most Wonderful Sound: Anytime they have choral singing. Also, the orchestral arrangements on Zëss are exquisite enough to make listeners wish they'd been using the orchestra all along.
• Nightmare Fuel: Several songs. "Ork Alarm" and the last two songs on Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré are good examples. The band's concept itself is also a veritable well.
• Periphery Demographic: A lot of metalheads like them, thanks to the prominent influence they've had on multiple metal musicians.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: Much of Félicité Thösz, especially by Magma standards. "Coltrane Sündia" also counts, though it's also a Tear Jerker due to its context (an elegy for John Coltrane). The same goes for Zëss if you don't pay attention to the lyrics. The lyrics are actually Nightmare Fuel.
• Values Dissonance: "Spiritual (Negro Song)" has been retitled to "Spiritual (Gospel)" in several of its CD reissues^note or just "Spiritual" in one which deleted all the subtitles, presumably because the term "negro", which was at one point considered acceptable to refer to African-Americans and others of African descent, has now acquired negative connotations thanks to the euphemism treadmill (it was already acquiring those connotations in parts of the United States, but this very well may not been apparent to a band from France at the time). The band has also at times been accused of supporting fascism, though they themselves have sharply denied this (their rather militaristic image no doubt doesn't help here); apart from the Green Aesop, their political sentiments remain oblique and are not, as far as anyone can tell, expressed in their music (particularly given that almost all their lyrics are in Conlang to begin with - always a roundabout way to promote any political ideology). The band is often subject to Alternate Character Interpretation, given their apparent interest in the imagery of fascism but also their clear interest in African-American culture (music in particular) - a rather contradictory mix.

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