Magma

Magma is a French band formed in Paris in 1969 by Drummer Christian Vander. They are quite possibly one of the strangest bands you'll ever hear. Along with Camel, you'd have to be a huge proghead to know about them. They single-handedly pioneered an entirely new genre, Zeuhl, which is a style of Prog Rock that is described as what an Alien Rock Opera would sound like.
They also have made up a constructed language, Kobaian, for use in their music. The word Zeuhl itself means Celestial. Kobaian is a phonetic language made by elements of the Slavonic and Germanic languages able to express some things musically. The band came about by Christian Vander's vision of humanity's spiritual and ecological future which deeply and profoundly disturbed him. The band's albums tell of a story of people who flee a doomed earth to settle on the planet Kobaia, but conflict later arises when the Kobaians, descendants of the original colonists, encounter other Earth refugees.
As you can tell, this band is not for everyone and will scare off anyone without the taste for such eclectic stuff. The band has gotten into some controversy in the past, like when Christian Vander described the people of Africa and India as Degenerates, or when a bunch of crazies called the band a bunch of nazi sympathizers for embracing fascist aesthetics and ideologies in their album art, which the band has called myths and misinterpretations of their style.
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