M.A.G.S. is the project of Elliott Douglas, a Los Angeles-based musician from Buffalo whose energetic songs live at the fulcrum of ragged garage rock and muscular alt-pop. He came up as a drummer in Buffalo's punk and hardcore scenes before launching his own project in the mid-2010s. A melodic singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist with a D.I.Y. spirit, Douglas issued M.A.G.S.'s eponymous debut in 2017, then signed to East Coast indie Take This to Heart for his 2021 follow-up, Say Things That Matter. By this point, Douglas had relocated to California, and he returned with the visceral 2023 outing Destroyer on Smartpunk Records.