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underground rock band Hastur Rising, Alex and Strand are contacted by the band's guitarist, who claims that his suicide was caused by a recording of the
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was re-released with no changes to the audio. However, the episode description of the final episode "Into the Black" was changed to denote that it is the "Season Three Mid-Season finale".
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