Lacuna Coil Singer Records Duet w/ Italian Popstar

According to a posting on the LACUNA COIL fan site Emptyspiral.net, LACUNA COIL frontwoman Cristina Scabbia has recorded a duet with the Italian pop superstar Franco Battiato on a song entitled "I'm That". A short clip of the track, which appears on Battiato's new album, "Dieci Stratagemmi" (Sony Records), can be downloaded at this location. The lyrics to the song can be viewed by clicking here.

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Stereomud Guitarist In New Band, Five Year Stare

Former STEREOMUD guitarist John Fattoruso is currently in the process of writing material for a brand new project called FIVE YEAR STARE. Joining Fattoruso in the new band is former OUT OF BODY drummer Chris Hermmans. Fattoruso and Hermmans are currently seeking a bass player and singer while they continue to write and record new songs. The group's musical direction is being described as "a lot heavier than STEREOMUD" but without sacrificing the melodic edge.

STEREOMUD, which featured in its ranks former members of LIFE OF AGONY and STUCK MOJO, split up in June 2003 following the disappointing sales performance of the band's sophomore effort, "Every Given Moment". The group's debut album, "Perfect Self", was released in 2001.

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Atreyu UK Fall Tour Dates

Atreyu are to tour the UK at the end of the year. The dates are: London Mean Fiddler December 12, Cardiff Clwb Ifor Bach 13, Manchester University 14, Newcastle Northumbria University 16, Oxford Zodiac 18, Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms 19, Birmingham Carling Academy II 20.

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Therion's Christofer Johnsson To Make Public Chat

Taken from official Therion website:

It's been a long time since people could talk to one of the band members on a scheduled chat in public chatroom. Thus, Christofer Johnsson will make a public chat on www.megatherion.com the 9-th of October at 17.00 CET (16.00 GMT). If you are using Mozilla, opera, or any kind of a browser that doesn't support java by default, please visit www.sun.com and install Java 2, that will allow you to use the java applet in our chatroom. If you, however, prefer to chat via some IRC program like mIRC for example, download it, and connect to main.megatherion.com, channel name #Therion_Chat. Whatever you decide to use, BE THERE!

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Papa Roach Announces US Tour Dates

Papa Roach has announced US tour dates. Most dates will be with Trustcompany and Chronic Future. Dates are as follows:

Oct. 21 Estero, FL @ Germain Arena
Oct. 22 Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
Oct. 23 Miami, FL @ Bayfront Park
Oct. 24 Jacksonville, FL @ Metropolitan Park
Oct. 25 Tallahassee, FL @ Floyd's Music Store
Oct. 27 Jackson, MS @ Headliners
Oct. 29 Kansas City @ Kansas City Internation Raceway
Oct. 30 Houston, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
Nov. 1 Odessa, TX @ Dos Amigos
Nov. 3 Austin, TX @ Stubb's Bar-B-Q
Nov. 4 Wichita, KS @ The Cotillion
Nov. 5 Saint Louis, MO @ Mississippi Nights
Nov. 6 Columbia, MO @ The Blue Note
Nov. 8 Urbana, IL @ The Canopy Club
Nov. 9 Grand Rapids, MI @ The Intersection
Nov. 11 Chigaco, IL @ Metro
Nov. 12 Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
Nov. 13 Madison, WI @ The Annex
Nov. 14 Flint, MI @ The Machine Shop
Nov. 16 Cleveland, OH @ The Odeon (VIP tickets on sale 10/06)
Nov. 17 Columbus. OH @ Newport Music Hall (pre-show party tickets)
Nov. 18 Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart's
Nov. 21 Knoxville, TN @ Blue Cats
Nov. 23 Charleston, SC @ The Music Farm
Nov. 24 Myrtle Beach, SC @ House of Blues
Nov. 25 Hartford, CT @ Webster Theatre

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Tony Hawk's Underground 2 Tracklisting

The track listing for Tony Hawk's Underground 2 (out Tuesday October 5, if you're into that sort of thing) has quite a number of metal bands on it.

Frank Sinatra - "That's Life"
The Doors - "Break On Through (To The Other Side)"
Johnny Cash - "Ring of Fire"
Ramones - "Rock ‘N Roll High School"
Sugarhill Gang - "Rappers Delight"
Metallica - "Whiplash"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "The Power of Equality"
The Stooges - "1970"
X - "Los Angeles"
Violent Femmes - "Add It Up"
The D.O.C. - "Whirlwind Pyramid"
Jimmy Eat World - "Pain"
Rancid - "Fall Back Down"
The Explosion - "Here I Am"
Melvins - "Sweet Willy Rollbar"
Distillers - "Beat Your Heart Out"
Less Than Jake - "That's Why They Call It A Union"
Faith No More - "Mid Life Crisis"
Ween - "It's Gonna Be A Long Night"
Joy Division - "Warsaw"
Dead Boys - "Sonic Reducer"
Brand Nubian - "Punks Jump Up To Get Beat Down"
Cut Chemist - "Drums of Fire"
The Germs - "Lexicon Devil"
Disturbed - "Liberate"
The Living End - "End of the World"
Fear - "I Love Livin In The City"
Audio Two - "Top Billin"
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth - "Soul Brother #1"
Das Oath - "Awesome R***"
Libretto - "Volume"
Handsome Boy Modeling School - "Holy Calamity"
Zeke - "Long Train Running"
Lamb of God - "Black Label"
3 Inches of Blood - "Deadly Sinners"
The Hiss - "Back On The Radio"
25 Ta Life - "Over the Years"
Nebula - "So It Goes"
Aesop Rock - "No Jumper Cables"
Living Legends - "Night Prowler"
Atmosphere - "Trying To Find A Balance"
Suicide Machines - "High Anxiety"
The Casualties - "Unknown Soldier"
Diverse - "Certified"
Ultramagnetic MC's - "Ego Trippin"
Camaros - "Cheesecake"
Steele Pulse - "Born Fe Rebel"
Ministry - "No W"
Grand Puba - "I Like It"
Operatic - "Interested In Madness"
Mike V & the Rats - "Never Give Up"
Dead End Road - "Sin City"
Melbeatz feat. Kool Savas - "Grind On"

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New White Willow Album

The Norwegian progressive/folk rock band White Willow released on September the 21st the forth album, entitled "Storm Season," through The Laser's Edge record label.

According to Musical Discoveries, the record is "a moody, magnificent masterpiece," and scores 5/5 points. Tarkus Magazine says "it features their best songwriting to date, and an absolutely flawless production. 'Storm Season' is one of the best records produced in this country - regardless of genre. The record of the year."

The whole review is posted at this link.

More info on the band official site.

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Get Guitar Lessons From Adagio Guitarist

Stephan Forte from Adagio is available for guitar lessons in the Parisian region. If you are interested, send an e-mail to stephanforte@hotmail.com.

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Within Temptation To Do Unique Concert In Paris

This is now officially confirmed. Previewing the release of their new album, Within Temptation will give a unique concert in Europe, on Monday November 8, in Paris, to the Bataclan.

This exceptional concert will be filmed and broadcasted live in several cinemas throughout Europe. For the occasion, the band will present a new and exclusive show, with grandiose production….

You can buy the tickets in all the habitual sell points (Fnac, Virgin, Carrefour, France Billet. ..).

Because of the special aspect of this concert, a number of tickets will be allocated to the French and international media and for sure, a lot of fans from all over Europe will come too. Don’t forget that the capacity of the Bataclan will be reduced because of the installations of the movie cameras and equipment for the retransmission. You must understand that this concert will be quickly sold out.

For their upcoming tour, the band will play live in France (more than 10 shows for the country are already programmed…) and Europe only in February and March 2005…

Entitled "Silent Force," the new album of Within Temptation will be out on Tuesday 16 November, in three different formats: a limited edition luxury digibook with a DVD in bonus, a “normal” version, and a version without booklet at a really cool price.

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Shadows Fall Contest, Final Dates With Damageplan

There is no other title more appropriate for this venture than The Ultimate Shadows Fall Contest. You could win all of the instruments and clothing needed to start your own metal band in style:

A guitar from Ibanez
A guitar from Washburn
A bass from Ibanez
A snare drum from TAMA
A set of cymbals & a carrying case from Meinl
A set of drum sticks from Pro-Mark
Four $50 gift cards from our friends at Hot Topic
Four pairs of shoes from Vision Street Wear
Four shirts, four hoodies and four trucker hats from Strhess Clothing
Four watches from Vestal
Four shirts from Shadows Fall & Century Media
Shadows Fall's entire CD catalog on Century Media

All of the details can be found at the entry form on cmdistro.com so enter now and keep your fingers crossed - the winner will be announced in early December.

Shadows Fall have just announced all of the dates on the Devastation Across the Nation Tour. Register here to take get tickets. More...

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Meet Lamb Of God

Lamb of God will be signing copies of their new CD, "Ashes of The Wake," at the following Independent Retail Accounts before their tour dates with Fear Factory:

October 8th Pittsburgh, PA Eide's Entertainment 4pm to 6pm
1121 Penn Ave
Pittsburgh PA 15222
(412)261-0900

October 9th Detroit, MI Rock A Billy's 3pm to 5pm
8411 Hall Rd
Utica MI 48317
(586)731-0188

October 10th Cleveland, OH The Exchange 3pm to 5pm
6271 Pearl Road
Parma Heights OH 44130
(440)845-0828

They'll also be making these in-store appearances in Canada:

October 26th Scrape Records 6pm to 7pm
17 West Broadway
Vancouver, BC
V5Y 1P1
Phone: 604-877-1676

November 12th HMV Superstore 5pm to 6pm
333 Yonge St.
Toronto, On
M5B 1R7
416-596-0333

Come on out, meet the band and get them to sign your new CD! More...

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Metal Blade Signs Distro Deal With Two Labels

Metal Blade Records has recently signed on to handle distribution for Blackmarket Activities, Guy Kozowyk from The Red Chord's label, and Iron Clad Recordings, Trevor Phipps from Unearth's label. This means that fans that have been having a hard time locating releases from either of these labels will now be able to find them in all the stores that Metal Blade Records and it's distributor Red works with. Both labels will be re-releasing certain CD's, some which will have revamped packaging and bonus material. For more information on what the re-releases will contain you can check any of the labels' or bands' websites. Release schedule is as follows:

10/19/04 - PsyOpus - Ideas of Reference - B.M.A.
10/19/04 - From A Second Story Window - Not One Word Has Been Omitted - B.M.A.
11/02/04 - Paria - Misanthropos - B.M.A.
11/02/04 - Born From Pain - Sands of Time - B.M.A.
11/02/04 - If Hope Dies - The Ground Is Rushing Up To Meet Us - Iron Clad Recordings
02/22/05 - Since The Flood - Valor And Vengeance - Iron Clad Recordings

"We are very excited to welcome both Blackmarket Activities and Iron Clad to the Metal Blade family. We will be distributing releases for each of the labels and are excited to work with their great artists." - Brian Slagel Owner/CEO Metal Blade Records

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Motorhead Record Song For Spongebob Squarepants

Motorhead are among the artists who will be featured on the soundtrack to the upcoming "SpongeBob Squarepants" movie, reports ABC ePrep. The Flaming Lips will provide the disc's first single, a track called "SpongeBob and Patrick Confront the Psychic Wall of Energy," while Lemmy and the boys have re-recorded their song "You Better Run" under the new title "You Better Swim." The album will be released November 9, ten days before the film opens in theaters.

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Sonata Arctica #1 In Japan

After entering the Finnish single charts at # 1 with "Don't Say A Word" in August, Sonata Arctica have done it again - "Don't Say A Word" has shot to the #1 position on the Japanese foreign artist charts.

Sonata Arctica's brand new full-length album, "Reckoning Night," is slated for release in Japan on October 6 and throughout Europe on October 11 through Nuclear Blast.

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Kamelot Reveals New Album Title

Kamelot have posted this update on their official website:

Kamelot is in the finishing stages of their newest follow up to the successful album, "Epica." The new release working title "The Black Halo" is due out in early 2005 on Steamhammer/SPV Records. Songs include "March Of Mephisto," "When The Lights Are Down," "Moonlight Falling," "The Black Halo," "Abandoned," "Master Of The Game" and more. Produced by Sascha Paeth and Miro and recorded at Gate Studio/Germany. Special guests include Jens Johansson(keyboards/Stratovarius) and Simone Simons (vocals/Epica). The band will follow the release with Black Halo Over Europe Tour 2005 in March/April.

In addition, new Kamelot avatars are available for download on their website here.

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Wintersun Launch Official Website

Wintersun, the new Finnish band founded by former Ensiferum vocalist/guitarist, Jari Mäenpää, have launched their official website here.

Wintersun's debut album, "Wintersun," was released on September 13 through Nuclear Blast Records. The music is described as being "powerful and majestic with a lot of energy", and "mainly flows with great melodies influenced by folk and Scandinavian traditional music."

Here is the track listing:

01. Beyond The Dark Sun
02. Winter Madness
03. Sleeping Stars
04. Battle Against Time
05. Death And The Healing
06. Starchild
07. Beautiful Death
08. Sadness And Hate

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Cattle Decapitation Album Wins Best of 2004

Cattle Decapitation's latest album, "Humanure," has won the "Best Hard Rock Album" of 2004 in the San Diego Music Awards. Last year, the band's album "To Serve Man" won in the same category. Vocalist Travis Ryan said "The band thanks the City Beat Staff and our friend Gabe Serbian for accepting the award for us."

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Ask Obituary Anything

Roadrunner's Ask the Artist this month features John Tardy of the legendary Obituary. Ask your questions here.

Obituary are currently recording their long awaited follow-up to 1998's "Dead." The album is expected to see the light of day sometime in 2005.

Recently, Tardy opened a site where he posts updates about the recording process. You can access that site at www.obituary.cc.

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Watch A New Episode Of Metal Injection Online

The brutal people over at Metal Injection have posted a new episode of their TV show online, which features a hilarious interview with Howard of Killswitch Engage.

Also, you can finally check out Trivium's video "Like Light To The Flies" Videos from Shadows Fall, Candiria and the End are also featured on this episode. The episode is streaming online here.

Metal Injection also airs on TV in Brooklyn on Tuesday Nights at 12:30AM on Ch. 67 Cablevision, 34 Time Warner.

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The Mighty Nimbus Debut Album This Month

The Mighty Nimbus, featuring members of Sixty Watt Shaman and Alabama Thunderpussy, will release their self-titled debut album on October 25 in Scandinavia, November 1 in the rest of Europe, and February 8 in USA, Canada and Mexico. The CD will be issued through Threeman Recordings (the Swedish label owned by the members of Entombed) in Europe and Candlelight Records USA in North America. The complete track listing for the CD is as follows:

01. Everything I See
02. I'll Never Weep
03. Broken Hoof
04. Drinkin On A Pile Of Skulls
05. Fenrir
06. Raising The Mammoth
07. Impose My Will
08. Sacrament Of The Sick
09. Eclipse
10. Born Too Late (Bonus Track)

The Mighty Nimbus is:

Andy Campbell (ex-Chaos Witch) - Drums
Dinis deCarvalho (ex-Electric Chair Horror) - Bass
Erik Larson (Alabama Thunderpussy, ex-Avail) - Guitar
Minnesota Pete Campbell (Sixty Watt Shaman) - Lead Guitar
Dan Soren (Sixty Watt Shaman) - Vocals

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3 Ways To See Nightwish's New Video

All right, there are three ways to see the Nightwish "Wish I Had An Angel" video:

1. Right now: you can see the video here.

2. October 5th: Nightwish's "Once CD" hits the streets. The video will be on the disc.

3. October 9th: the Nightwish video will make its premier on MTV2's Headbangers Ball.

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Neaera To Defy Categorization On Upcoming CD

Münster, Germany-based metalcore act Neaera will enter Stage One Studios in Bühne, Germany in November with producer Andy Classen to record their debut album, tentatively due in early 2005 through Metal Blade Records. "We have taken some time to once more go over one or two passages in the lyrics and over some riffs in the songs, and we think at this point, after some long days inside the rehearsing room and endless discussions, it is safe to say that we have now agreed on 11 tracks which we are going to record in November," the band write on their web site. "The songs will consist mostly of (Swedish) death metal riffs, but they will also contain mosh parts and even some melodic black metal passages, but hey, you'll see (and hear) the result when it comes out! All we can say is that we can't wait to present our stuff to you people out there and that we hope you're gonna be into it! We really don't care what you call our sound, metalcore, melodic death metal, whatever, we just want to play concerts in front of people who like our music and can draw something from it for themselves, hopefully something positive!"

A demo recording of a new Neaera track, entitled "Broken Spine", can currently be downloaded from the group's web site at this location.

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Brainstorm Announce Album Title And Release Date

Germany's Brainstorm have set "Liquid Monster" as the tentative title for the successor of their highly acclaimed 2003 "Soul Temptation" album.

As guitarist Torsten Ihlenfeld comments: "We are right before finishing the main songwriting and pre-production process and I must say that the new material simply sounds amazing!“ and vocalist Andy B. Franck adds:” Yes,… I think now we have created a REAL Monster!”

The album release date is set for the 28th of February. An advance single, feat. new album tracks as well as some non-album tracks and a new enhanced video-clip in support of the new album will be released on January 31st.

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Kreator, Dark Tranquillity To Team Up For Euro Tou

Long-running German thrashers Kreator will be teaming up with Sweden's Dark Tranquillity for the "Enemy of God Tour 2005" beginning in February 2005. Two as-yet-announced opening acts will be added to the bill. Confirmed dates are as follows:

Feb. 02 - Salzburg (A) Rockhouse
Feb. 03 - Zagreb (HR) Tvornica
Feb. 04 - Budapest (HU) Petöfi Hall
Feb. 05 - Wien (A) Planet Music
Feb. 06 - Graz (A) Orpheum
Feb. 07 - Llubljana (SLO) VtK
Feb. 08 - Treviso (I) New Age
Feb. 09 - Mailand (I) Rolling Stone
Feb. 10 - Montpellier (F) Rockstore
Feb. 11 - Bergara (E) Jam
Feb. 12 - Madrid (E) Arena
Feb. 13 - Barcelona (E) Razzmatazz 1
Feb. 14 - Lyon (F) Transbordeur
Feb. 15 - Paris (F) Elysee Montmatre
Feb. 16 - London (GB) Electric Ballroom
Feb. 17 - Antwerpen (B) Hof ter Lo
Feb. 18 - Tilburg (NL) O13
Feb. 19 - Osnabrück (D) Dütehalle/Georgsmarinenhütte
Feb. 20 - Oberhausen (D) T-Club Turbinenhalle
Feb. 21 - Langen (D) Stadthalle
Feb. 23 - Stuttgart (D) Longhorn
Feb. 24 - Nürnberg (D) Hirsch
Feb. 25 - Pratteln (CH) Z7
Feb. 26 - Kaufbeuren (D) Zeppelinhalle
Feb. 27 - Glauchau (D) Alte Spinnerei
Feb. 28 - Berlin (D) Columbiaclub
Mar. 01 - Hannover (D) Faust
Mar. 02 - Hamburg (D) Markthalle
Mar. 03 - Göteborg (S) Musikens Hus
Mar. 04 - Oslo (NO) Betong
Mar. 05 - Stockholm (S) Klubben

As previously reported, Kreator have set "Enemy of God" as the title of their new album, due in Europe and South America on January 10 and North America on January 11 via SPV Records. A limited-edition version of the CD will come with a bonus DVD containing a "making of" documentary and video clips. Artwork duties will be handled by Austrian artist Jochim Luetke (www.luetke.com). Arch Enemy guitarist Michael Amott makes a guest appearaonce on lead guitar on the track "Murder Fantasies".

The follow-up to 2001's "Violent Revolution" was recorded and mixed at Backstage Studios in Derbyshire, England with producer Andy Sneap (Machine Head, Skinlab, Nevermore), and was previously described by Kreator mainman Mille Petrozza as "pure brutal thrash! Tons of fast shit, sick solos, aggro riffing... I am really psyched about the new shit. Can't wait to hear what [the fans] think about it..."

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Hypocrisy To Enter Studio Next Month

Swedish extreme metallers Hypocrisy will be entering the studio early next month to start working on the follow-up to "The Arrival". "We have no title or release date yet but we will keep you updated during the recording process," the band write on their web site. An early 2005 release through Nuclear Blast Records is expected.

"The Arrival" was released last February through Nuclear Blast. The follow-up to 2002's "Catch-22" was recorded at frontman Peter Tägtgren's Abyss studios.

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Within Temptation Set Release Date For New Single

Holland's Within Temptation have set an October 25 release date for their new single, "Stand My Ground".

"Stand My Ground" is the first single off their upcoming album, "The Silent Force", due later in the year. A video for "Stand My Ground" was shot on the roof of an old brewery in Berlin, Germany last week. "The band performed their song for a whole (very cold) night," reads a posting on the group's web site. "By the sunrise of the next morning everybody went tired but happy back to the hotel in order to catch some sleep."

As previously reported, "The Silent Force" will be released in three formats: a limited digibook version with a DVD bonus, a regular jewel case version, and a version without the booklet, at a special price.

Within Temptation will introduce their new album with a special performace at Le Batlaclan in Paris, France on November 8, 2004. This show will be filmed and will be broadcast live in several theaters around Europe.

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Antiproduct Singer Speaks To Skiddle

Chay from Skiddle interviewed Antiproduct singer, Alex Kane, when they were backstage at the Wickerman Festival. Here are some excerpts from the interview:

C: Dream festival bill (pick 5 bands):

A: Us, Kiss, Abba, Slayer, and Boyzone, so we could all beat them up. Get rid of them once and for all.

C: With Kiss, is it all about the glam?

A: Not really I just think that we’re a combo of Kiss and Abba with bits of and Slayer thrown in there. But I don’t like to point it out, where I steal all the tunes from. Kiss. Slayer. Abba. Throw them in a big flesh-grinder thing and you get us.

C: Favourite festival memory.

A: When we started the riot at ‘The Gods of Milan’ I liked that. We played this metal festival with a bunch of bands; I don’t wanna be weird but….

C: Describe the Wickerman Festival in 10 words.

A: Friendly, wasted, fire, toilet, (walking up to a surprisingly beautiful security guard), blue, hair, gorgeous, fingernails, walkie-talkie.

Read the full article at Skiddle.

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