Since the turn of the millennium, Sweden's Grand Magus have been flag-waving champions of trad metal. But unlike their tank-loving countrymen in Sabaton or even fellow leatherwear enthusiasts Hammerfall, nobody's ever dared call them power metal.
Spawned very much in the vision of Priest and Sabbath, theirs is a doomy take on heavy metal's blueprint that brings it all back to the source. Now 10 albums in, Hammer caught up with frontman Janne Christofferson - or JB, as he's better known - to talk gangs, giggle grass the disappearance of two years.
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