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label with a wide repertoire of artists that has previously released albums by other metal bands like
Daysend and Henry's Anger. Traditionally, major labels have had little interest in Australian metal acts, although there has been notable exceptions. Allegiance and Mortal Sin, for example, were attached to Polygram (who also handled distribution for Armoured Angel's early releases), and Boss and a Perth band called Black Alice were signed to
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Death and distributing early
Norwegian black metal albums before releasing the first Bestial Warlust album in 1994. Since then the label has maintained its distribution service along with its own roster and now carries acts that include Chalice, Deströyer 666, Long Voyage Back and former Sadistik Exekution guitarist Rev. Kriss Hades, along with a selection of overseas bands and a small number of non-metal bands.
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including doom and sludge bands as well as a few international releases and has been running two all day festivals: Slaughterfest, which showcases a mixed line up of Death, Grindcore and Doom bands and East West Death Grind Fest which focuses mainly on Brutal Death Metal and
Grindcore bands. Another label specialising in grind is Melbourne's No Escape, set up by two members of
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coast touring circuit by immense distances, for this reason Perth band
Epitaph made the relocation to Sydney after being signed to Warhead Records. Nevertheless, Australian metal bands were receiving more media coverage than ever before. As more local releases appeared, more were being added to the playlists of community radio and to
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Front began in 1996, and since 2009 this has been expanded to cover a local awards night for WA heavy metal bands. Other online coverage of
Australian heavy metal was founded by Sydney-based sites Hail Metal and Pyro Music who provided regular reviews and interviews from the local and international scene.
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Australia's most prominent metal groups and both had established credible followings internationally before I Killed the Prom Queen abruptly split up in early 2007. Things did not turn out so well for Sunk Loto, who had switched to an aggressive metalcore style on their second album
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Coffins Slave in Sydney, is mainly a distribution label that deals in vinyl although they do carry CDs and have a small roster of signed bands from Australia and overseas. The label works with exclusive distribution deals from carrying titles ranging from Black metal, Thrash, NWOBHM, Doom, and
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More bands were bolstering the scene's increasingly healthier status and diversifying its fanbase. Brisbane band
Astriaal had formed in 1998 and since then had bucked the trend for black metal bands to remain mysterious and play live rarely or never. The group had released three EPs through Brisbane
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Melbourne groups like Scourge, Damaged and Blood Duster were also becoming established. Scourge formed in 1989, and released the 3/4's Cut C.D/E.P on Girls Toilet Records in 1991, and later released a 7" single Phoenix/Tastechaser on Death Valley records in 1994. Damaged, who had
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magazine, by 2000 Australian heavy metal was thriving like never before. By the end of that year the scene was much different from the one that had existed at the beginning of the previous decade. Many of the bands were beginning to be noticed beyond the underground by other sections of the industry
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band that had formed in 1980. When guitarist John Meyer joined Rose Tattoo in 1983, Saracen replaced him with Jamie Page and changed its name to Trilogy, releasing two albums (the second of which was recorded after Meyer returned, and issued under the Saracen name). Axatak, who adopted a leather and
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In 2006 Animus Industries released a mixed bag of nu-metal, hardcore and hard rock music videos on a DVD called 'Broken' including: The Butterfly Effect, Karnivool, The Mark of Cain, .hinge, Nokturnl, Side Effect X, Greyn, Sick Puppies, No Grace and A Darker Shade. Also included are: Chton, Keep of
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label Neurotic, before touring Europe once more. Blood Duster also toured Europe in June 2005. At one point, the bands found themselves playing at the same venue on concurrent nights, possibly the first time such a thing had happened in Australian metal history. Blood Duster had toured with the Big
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Hotel which had been a key venue for every type of band from hair metal to thrash—the live heavy metal scene in Sydney almost came to a standstill. The Lewisham Hotel has since begun hosting metal gigs once more, although not as frequently. The old Phoenician Club building was eventually demolished
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magazine, a glossy monthly that had first appeared in 1988, was the first Australian publication devoted to heavy metal and gave considerable coverage to local acts. By the early 1990s it had attained widespread mainstream circulation throughout the country and helped to introduce new audiences to
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The Tasmanian scene was non-existent except for one genuine metal act, Tyrant that formed in 1983, releasing a 4-track cassette titled "Never Too Loud" which topped the local metal charts and peaking at No. 7 at Melbourne's Central Station records. Tyrant re-located to Sydney in 1985, quickly
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from teenage thrash group Neophobia. Expanding to a store called the Hammerhouse in Parramatta in Sydney's west, the business traded in metal exclusively while the label released only Australian artists, by far the most successful at the local level being Cryogenic who went on to do a small scale
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In 2008, Metal Obsession entered the market offering extensive news, reviews, interviews and gig guide for all states of Australia and New Zealand. Metal Obsession received an Australian Metal Award in 2009 for best Metal Fan/Web/Magazine. Metal as Fuck also offer updates of Australian metal in a
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in 1984 as a five-piece band before becoming a trio after an early demo recording. Developing a dense and very heavy style, they are often named as Australia's first major death metal band. Staying together until 1996, they came as close as any Australian metal band to attaining widescale success
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were two of the few foreign metal bands to conduct Australian tours in the first half of that decade. In spite of this, metal music had a large underground following, with small independent retailers like Sydney's Utopia Import Records catering for the audience. Utopia was established in 1978 by
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Sydney label Grindhead Records was established in the early 2000s (decade) by the vocalist of grindcore band Ebolie to release not only his own albums but those from other groups, mostly other Sydney grind and brutal death metal acts. The label has since released a wider range of extreme styles
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on 12 February 2000 at Festival Hall before ultimately disbanding without any formal release. Deströyer 666, a thrash band that had been formed by former Bestial Warlust guitarist KK Warslut, was another act developing a foreign profile, touring Europe (and eventually moving there in 2001) and
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was plagued with problems, however, and Addictive faded away before splitting up in 1996. Sydney death metal group Sinus were also experiencing success at this stage, although ultimately they would only put out one release, splitting up just before releasing their highly anticipated sophomore
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Prime Cuts is a Perth label handling a range of metal bands from that city . Started by metal musicians Glen Dyson and Brad Wesson in 2002, the company has since expanded to incorporate the promotions and touring arm Soundworks Entertainment which in the last few years has conducted numerous
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in the inner city, which also hosted regular metal events including shows by international touring acts; the building's history as a live music venue dated back to the early 1970s when groups like AC/DC had played there. On 21 October 1995, however, the club hosted a dance party known as a
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An increasingly popular export, the latter half of the 2000s has seen a marked increase in the number of Black Metal artists achieving high distinction and domestic and international success. In the footsteps of the highly successful Destroyer 666 and Gospel of the Horns, Melbourne bands
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During the early 1990s, the influence of American and Swedish death metal bands was quickly evident. Many of the thrash bands of the 1980s had disbanded and heavier groups were beginning to fill the void, such as Necrotomy, Acheron, Disembowlment, Corpse Molestation, Damnatory, Hecatomb,
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have been a forerunner in the establishment of a regulated and competitive schedule of live events accommodating the more obscure and extreme underground metal artists across Australia, including hosting the annual 'Hellraiser' festival, catering to artists such as Canberra's
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before eventually imploding in 1985. Vice was a glam metal band from Brisbane who had formed in early 1984. They became one of the city's most prominent acts, releasing an EP and two albums, undertaking interstate tours and also supporting international acts such as Sweet and
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Day Out the year before, the first domestic metal band to play at every show since Allegiance ten years previously, and had even attained the rare distinction of having a song featured in a TV commercial. In 2008, Truth Corroded became the first Australian band to tour
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Truth Inc. is an Adelaide-based metal label run by members of long-standing acts Truth Corroded and Double Dragon. The labels current roster includes Double Dragon, Truth Corroded, Black Like Vengeance, Closed Casket, A Red Dawn, Separatist, The Omen and Lynchmada.
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were starting to appear in the always diverse Melbourne. In Perth, isolation was a serious problem. Both Allegiance and iNFeCTeD, a death metal band that had released two albums on Shock, had self-destructed not long after returning from expensive east coast tours.
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festival. Established by Armoured Angel's drummer Joel Green to raise funds for a friend severely brain-damaged after an assault, the first concert in 1991 featured six Canberra bands in the afternoon with a later performance by some punk bands including the
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label Dissident by 2002, headlined Metal for the Brain and toured regularly. One band developing a profile was Psi.Kore, who had formed in 1996. They had been on the "World War Three" tour and, their self-titled EP was a best-seller. By going on to support
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Hotel in the inner western suburbs, which as The Haunted Castle had hosted metal gigs up to four nights a week since the early 1990s, decided to close its doors to metal bands after a series of vandalism incidents. The other premier venue was the
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peaked at No. 2), none of their singles reached higher than No. 21 ("Stand Up", 1982). The Angels were rarely referred to as a heavy metal band in Australia however, and in the modern context would possibly not now be considered one.
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have achieved critical acclaim in recent years in the Americas and Europe respectively, achieving collaborative signings with Misanthropic Spirit Records (Argentina) and Obscure Abhorrence Productions (Ger.) for upcoming full-length releases.
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who died three days later after taking ecstasy there. During the resultant investigation, the Phoenician Club's entertainment license was withdrawn and with the closure of another two venues shortly afterward—including the Cobra Club at the
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news service outside of Canberra carried word of it, even though it had often attracted up to 3000 people and had been running as long as the Big Day Out. In an interview with Australian metal webzine HailMetal.com, festival director
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European tour in 1998. Warhead eventually disappeared in early 2000 and none of the bands attached to it still exist although several have formed the core of other groups currently at the forefront of the scene, including Daysend.
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magazines, not to mention a strong fan base, a record deal never eventuated and the group disbanded in late 1986. Over the next decade Tyrant played only a handful of shows, reforming in 1999 and have released 3 albums to date,
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had attracted attention with a militaristic death metal style and at the end of 2001 were voted Australian Metal Band of the Year by Triple J. The following year they toured Europe and eventually moved to the US in 2005.
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and under his direction the show began featuring more Australian metal than ever before. Soon after his tenure began, however, programming reshuffles at Triple J caused the show to be reduced by an hour and was renamed
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is often cited as being Australia's foremost hard rock band. AC/DC's influence on metal is quite clear however, with a style built around a predominately loud, heavy riffing guitar sound. With regard to heavy metal,
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in 1976, another band often cited as laying a cornerstone for Australian metal. Like Buffalo, Rose Tattoo's music was ignored by Australian radio while building a strong cult following internationally. Conversely,
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establishing themselves and headlining the first Metal Crusade at the Coogee Bay Hotel on a lineup that also included Bengal Tigers, Shy Thunder, Statez and Vice before 1,800 people. Despite good reviews in both
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Heaven formed in Sydney out of an Adelaide band called Fat Lip in 1980 and became a second-tier attraction in the US on the strength of their second album, touring widely and opening for the likes of
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were proving that there was more to the local scene than just death metal. Death metal was the focus of Brisbane's scene, however, headed by Misery who had formed in 1992 and featuring others like
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the following year which was supported by a national tour with Sydney hard rock band The Poor. By 1995, Allegiance had toured nationally with the Big Day Out and supported bands like Slayer,
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scene in the US in the late 1980s had raised the level of interest in heavy metal music in Australia by the early 1990s but for the most part it was still primarily an underground scene.
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band that had evolved out of a 1980s thrash group called Light Force. Having already established some international links from that time, Mortification was signed internationally by
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could well be considered one of the country's first exponents of the style. Originally formed under the name Head in 1967, Buffalo began playing a very similar style to that of
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had begun to filter through the local metal community and a group of newer bands started to appear that adopted similar styles. Arguably the earliest of these was Melbourne's
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was also making inroads beyond Australian shores. The band undertook a European tour in 2004 after the release of their second album and by the middle of 2006 had signed to
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band that formed in the late 1970s playing covers before introducing original material. As one of that city's most prominent heavy bands they supported touring groups like
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label. Earlier in the year, Alchemist, Cryogenic and a Sydney thrash band called Psi.Kore had staged a large-scale tour billed as "World War Three". Backed by Triple J's
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and managed and released music by Dungeon, Pegazus and Vanishing Point among others, however Ravic has been concentrating his efforts on film making in recent years.
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began to win fans away from old guard acts like Metallica and Megadeth who were seen by many to have mellowed since their earlier recordings. The Sydney-based
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had gone through a tumultuous history and by early 1999 was down to only two members. Late in 2000, however, the group had returned with a new vocalist,
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show on 3RRR for a number of years between the mid-1980s and 1990, and was a prominent, influential, and controversial figure in the local metal scene.
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to find themselves attached to Nuclear Blast Records. In 1998 they also became the first Australian act to appear at Germany's prestigious
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2028:Celtic metal
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3011:MTV Classic
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2923:Stereosonic
2919:(2008–2011)
2907:(2006–2015)
2901:(2009–2018)
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2871:WOMADelaide
2836:Good Things
2786:ARIA Charts
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2695:APRA Awards
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2274:Power chord
2269:Palm muting
2264:Guitar solo
2177:Speed metal
2157:Power metal
2132:Pagan metal
2105:Progressive
2085:Latin metal
2008:Drone metal
1959:Death metal
1917:Black metal
1912:Biker metal
1879:Heavy metal
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1482:Metal Blade
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1316:Adamus Exul
1207:Kevin Sharp
1121:Andrew Haug
1028:and become
974:Rebel Razor
954:power metal
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768:larrikinism
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578:black metal
569:recording,
550:Bob Daisley
542:Pity of Man
522:Big Day Out
473:behaviour.
467:death metal
384:Mötley Crüe
346:power metal
329:RCA Records
274:Pain Clinic
231:Iron Maiden
196:Rose Tattoo
192:Peter Wells
147:, American
141:heavy metal
3164:Categories
3123:See also:
3046:Video Hits
3023:Rock Arena
2935:Summadayze
2781:AIR Charts
2690:AIR Awards
2664:APRA AMCOS
2601:Aboriginal
2576:Indigenous
2259:Distortion
2237:Blast beat
2147:Post-metal
2142:Pornogrind
2045:Glam metal
2040:Funk metal
2023:Folk metal
2003:Doom metal
1986:Death-doom
1954:Crust punk
1729:29 January
1724:setlist.fm
1634:15 January
1589:References
1508:and more.
1498:Stuck Mojo
1462:Wollongong
1329:Adam Agius
1271:Psycroptic
1131:, is also
1022:Gold Coast
994:Superheist
946:Segression
921:Lunasphere
899:Parramatta
800:Allegiance
788:Abominator
758:formed in
630:Spinal Tap
576:Death and
558:Uriah Heep
498:hair metal
471:nihilistic
469:style and
433:Mortal Sin
350:doom metal
298:Whitesnake
290:glam metal
201:The Angels
123:Australian
66:newspapers
3096:Melbourne
2988:Countdown
2929:Soundwave
2811:Festivals
2571:Immigrant
2551:Classical
2485:Hard rock
2452:Festivals
2299:Screaming
2225:Fuzz bass
2167:Rap metal
2152:Pop metal
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2060:Grindcore
2050:Goregrind
1981:Deathcore
1969:Technical
1944:Blackgaze
1927:Symphonic
1490:Universum
1451:Alchemist
1304:Nightrage
1288:Universum
1255:hot metal
1227:Byron Bay
1219:metalcore
1191:Sunk Loto
1148:Loudmouth
1047:Loudmouth
1041:2000–2004
1030:Sunk Loto
986:Loudmouth
942:Cryogenic
934:Lord Kaos
912:surf rock
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894:Anna Wood
841:Hot Metal
776:war metal
772:The Magus
745:grindcore
702:Hot Metal
686:Hot Metal
682:Alchemist
598:Hot Metal
594:Sepultura
571:Dead Kids
546:Motörhead
530:Hot Metal
513:Addictive
477:1990–1995
453:in 1988.
421:Metallica
341:BlackJack
337:Melbourne
262:Melbourne
126:hard rock
96:July 2008
3125:Timeline
3091:Canberra
3086:Brisbane
3081:Adelaide
3035:Triple J
2911:Homebake
2730:J Awards
2495:Category
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2127:Nu metal
2090:Mathcore
1794:Archived
1763:Archived
1604:Archived
1542:See also
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1455:Be'lakor
1436:mathcore
1296:Soilwork
1284:Thailand
1174:Devolved
1157:Kerrang!
1137:Contrive
1101:Canadian
1076:Slipknot
990:nu metal
885:Broadway
876:Lewisham
764:hardcore
760:Ballarat
741:ambience
654:Hard Ons
642:Thirteen
634:go to 11
606:Triple J
517:Canberra
505:Megadeth
318:BB Steal
294:Adelaide
134:American
130:pub rock
2819:Current
2581:Hip-hop
2556:Country
2447:Fashion
2429:Culture
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2100:Melodic
1964:Melodic
1932:Unblack
1478:Earache
1474:Relapse
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1170:Daysend
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704:writer
666:Damaged
616:, then
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554:Rainbow
389:Stryper
251:Taramis
194:formed
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177:Buffalo
163:History
138:British
80:scholar
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2880:Former
2774:Charts
2683:Awards
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2591:Reggae
2544:Genres
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2467:Poseur
2286:Lyrics
2254:Guitar
2065:Grunge
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1524:London
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