
Artist
Magma
Magma is a progressive rock artist from Paris, France formed in 1969. 53 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Progressive Rock · Paris, France · Best progressive rock albums
- 53
- Releases
- 1970–2026
- Active years
- 1969
- Formed

Artist
Magma is a progressive rock artist from Paris, France formed in 1969. 53 releases are catalogued on Riffiter.
Progressive Rock · Paris, France · Best progressive rock albums

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Üdü Ẁüdü
1976

Köhntarkösz
1974

Ëmëhntëhtt-Ré
2009

K.A
2004

Félicité Thösz
2012

Attahk
1978

Kobaïa
1970

Merci
1984

Mekanïk Kommandöh
1989
Rehearsals for "KA"
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Live
2026

1001° centigrades
2023

Kãrtëhl
2022

Eskähl 2020 Bordeaux-Toulouse-Perpignan
2021

Zess (Le jour du néant)
2019

Magma marquee 1974
2019

Alhambra 2009 (Live)
2015

Slag tanz
2015

Triton Zünd Zëlëkt, Vol. 2 (Live triton 2011)
2015

Triton Zünd Zëlëkt, Vol. 1 (Live triton 2005)
2015

Zühn Wol Ünsai
2014

Rïah sahïltaahk
2014

Live in Tokyo 2005 (The Complete Set)
2013

Trilogy
2012

Bourges 1979 (Live) (Restored and remastered)
2009

Über Kommandoh, Vol. 2
2009

Über Kommandoh, Vol. 1
2009
Archiw I & II
2008

Trilogie au trianon / mdk
2006

Trilogie au Trianon / Theusz hamtaahk
2006

Magma kompila
2006

Mythes et légendes
2006

1001 degrés centigrades
2006

Magma 1975 théâtre du taur
2006

Magma les voix
2006

Inédits
2006

Magma reims 1976
2006

Retrospektiw iii
2006

Mekanik destruktiw kommandoh (2017 Remastered Version)
2006

Trilogie au trianon / wurdah itah
2000

BBC 1974 Londres (Live) (2020 Remastered Version)
1999

Concert 1971 Bruxelles Théâtre 140 (Live) (Remastered)
1996

Concert Bobino 1981 (Live) (Remastered)
1995

Retrospektïw 1-2-3 (2021 remastered)
1981

Üdü wüdü (2020 Remastered Version)
1976
Ẁurdah Ïtah
1974

Wurdah itah (2020 Remastered)
1974
Mëkanïk Dëstruktïẁ Kömmandöh
1973
1.001° Centigrades
1971
Magma is a French progressive rock band founded in Paris in 1969 by classically trained drummer Christian Vander, who claimed as his inspiration a "vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future" that profoundly disturbed him. In the course of their first album, the band tells the story of a group of people fleeing a doomed Earth to settle on the planet Kobaïa. Later, conflict arises when the Kobaïans — descendants of the original colonists — encounter other Earth refugees Vander invented a constructed language, Kobaïan, in which most lyrics are sung. In a 1977 interview with Vander and long-time Magma vocalist Klaus Blasquiz, Blasquiz said that Kobaïan is a "phonetic language made by elements of the Slavonic and Germanic languages to be able to express some things musically. The language has of course a content, but not word by word." Vander himself has said that, "When I wrote, the sounds [of Kobaïan] came naturally with it – I didn’t intellectualise the process by saying "Ok, now I’m going to write some words in a particular language", it was really sounds that were coming at the same time as the music." Later albums tell different stories set in more ancient times; howeve…