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1153:Good Times Bad Times
1097:Straight Out of Line
414:Billboard Rock Songs
297:"Love-Hate-Sex-Pain"
24:"Love-Hate-Sex-Pain"
1195:Something Different
1167:Cryin' Like a Bitch
968:Live & Inspired
930:Lighting Up the Sky
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391:in quite a while."
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1174:Love-Hate-Sex-Pain
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191:Saints and Sinners
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1076:Bad Magick
906:The Oracle
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814:Sully Erna
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377:The Oracle
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52:The Oracle
1244:Surrender
1146:The Enemy
1048:Keep Away
759:April 15,
517:Personnel
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1041:Whatever
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405:, the
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1069:Awake
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