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248:Aaron Lewis
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161:Bittersweet
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117:Independent
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630:References
599:"This Way"
511:"Innocent"
413:Stone Sour
305:electronic
240:Ultraspank
141:chronology
60:2011-08-20
611:Personnel
566:"Goodbye"
500:"Waiting"
419:Reception
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270:Chapter V
246:frontman
199:hard rock
195:pseudonym
71:2007–2011
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805:"INT4"
789:20 May
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