Review by Morpheus Kitami for Grand Magus - Grand Magus (2001)

Grand Magus is basically what you'd get if you took Gene Simmons led KISS and they tried to be a stoner metal band. Unfortunately, this resulted in quite the musically unadventureous album. It's not a bad idea, just done badly.
When I say badly, I really mean boring. Each song feels like it was made with a template. A bit below mid-paced, a series of riffs that often feel indistinguishable, and adhering to a strict song format. Yet, somehow songs vary in length by as much as 1 and a half minute. Songs are not very distinguishable from one another.
Ultimately, I found this album hard to describe with any adjective except boring. It's boring, so boring it defies belief. There's nothing about it that's incompetent on the surface, every aspect of it is technically proficient. It's just that no part of this seems to have produced an interesting song.