My favourite albums from 2002

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... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
1. It Was There That I Saw You
2. Another Morning Stoner ●
3. Baudelaire
4. Homage
5. How Near How Far
6. Heart in the Hand of the Matter
7. Monsoon
8. Days of Being Wild
9. Relative Ways
10. After the Laughter
11. Source Tags & Codes
- Noise rock
- Post-hardcore
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Critical Mass

Threshold
1. Phenomenon
2. Choices
3. Falling Away ●
4. Fragmentation
5. Echoes of Life
6. Round and Round
7. Avalon
8. Critical Mass (Part 1-3)
- Progressive metal
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On Fire

Spiritual Beggars
1. Street Fighting Saviours
2. Young Man, Old Soul
3. Killing Time
4. Fools Gold
5. Black Feathers
6. Beneath the Skin ●
7. Fejee Mermaid
8. Dance of the Dragon King
9. Tell Tales
10. The Lunatic Fringe
11. Look Back
- Stoner metal
- Hard rock
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Within the Depths of a Darkened Forest

Autumn's Grey Solace
1. Resonant Dusk
2. Forgotten, Fossilised, Archaic ●
3. Shadows of Moonlit Nights
4. Cast to the Seas in Storms
5. Eve
6. Reflections of Falling Leaves
7. Lost
8. Within the Depths of a Darkened Forest
- Ethereal wave
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The Creek Drank the Cradle

Iron & Wine
1. Lion's Mane
2. Bird Stealing Bread
3. Faded from the Winter ●
4. Promising Light
5. The Rooster Moans
6. Upward Over the Mountain
7. Southern Anthem
8. An Angry Blade
9. Weary Memory
10. Promise What You Will
11. Myddu Hymnal
- Folk
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Resound the Horn

Doomsword
1. Shores of Vinland ●
2. Onward into Battle
3. The DoomSword
4. MCXIX
5. For Those Who Died with Sword in Hand
6. The Youth of Fin MacCool
7. Resound the Horn: Odin's Hail
- Epic doom metal
- Heavy metal
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In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend

Reverend Bizarre
1. Burn in Hell!
2. In the Rectory
3. The Hour of Death
4. Sodoma Sunrise
5. Doomsower ●
6. Cirith Ungol
- Doom metal
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Surrounded by Thieves

High on Fire
1. Eyes & Teeth
2. Hung, Drawn and Quartered
3. Speedwolf
4. The Yeti ●
5. Nemesis
6. Thraft of Canaan
7. Surrounded by Thieves
8. Razor Hoof
- Stoner metal
- Sludge metal
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Let Go

Nada Surf
1. Blizzard of '77
2. Happy Kid
3. Inside of Love
4. Fruit Fly
5. Blonde on Blonde
6. Hi-Speed Soul ●
7. Killian's Red
8. The Way You Wear Your Head
9. Neither Heaven nor Space
10. Là pour ça
11. Treading Water
12. Paper Boats
- Power pop
- Alternative rock
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The Cold White Light

Sentenced
1. Konevitsan kirkonkellot
2. Cross My Heart and Hope to Die
3. Brief Is the Light
4. Neverlasting ●
5. Aika multaa muistot
6. Excuse Me While I Kill Myself
7. Blood & Tears
8. You Are the One
9. Guilt and Regret
10. The Luxury of a Grave
11. No One There
- Gothic metal
- Alternative metal
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Symbol of Life

Paradise Lost
1. Isolate
2. Erased ●
3. Two Worlds
4. Pray Nightfall
5. Primal
6. Mystify
7. Perfect Mask
8. No Celebration
9. Self Obsessed
10. Symbol of Life
11. Channel for the Pain
- Gothic metal
- Industrial metal
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Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild

CKY
1. Escape from Hellview
2. Flesh into Gear ●
3. Sink into the Underground
4. Attached at the Hip
5. The Frenetic Amnesic
6. Shock & Terror
7. Plastic Plan
8. Inhuman Creation Station
9. Sporadic Movement
10. Close Yet Far
- Alternative rock
- Stoner rock
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Woven Hand

Wovenhand
1. The Good Hand
2. My Russia ●
3. Blue Pail Fever
4. Glass Eye
5. Wooden Brother
6. Ain't No Sunshine
7. Story and Pictures
8. Arrowhead
9. Your Russia
10. Last Fist
- Gothic Americana
- Bluegrass
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Ritual

Shaman
1. Ancient Winds
2. Here I Am
3. Distant Thunder ●
4. For Tomorrow
5. Time Will Come
6. Over Your Head
7. Fairy Tale
8. Blind Spell
9. Ritual
10. Pride
- Power metal
- Progressive metal
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In Their Darkened Shrines

Nile
1. The Blessed Dead
2. Execration Text ●
3. Sarcophagus
4. Kheftiu Asar Butchiu
5. Unas Slayer of the Gods
6. Churning the Maelstrom
7. I Whisper in the Ear of the Dead
8. Wind of Horus
9. In Their Darkened Shrines
- Technical death metal
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Heavy Rocks (2002)

Boris
1. Heavy Friends
2. Korosu
3. Dyna-Soar
4. Wareruraido
5. Soft Edge
6. Death Valley
7. Koei
8. Kane - The Bell Tower of a Sign-
9. 1970 ●
10. Rattlesnake
- Stoner metal
- Doom metal
- Heavy psych
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Caution

Hot Water Music
1. Remedy
2. Trusty Chords
3. I Was on a Mountain ●
4. One Step to Slip
5. It's All Related
6. The Sense
7. Not for Anyone
8. Sweet Disasters
9. Alright for Now
10. We'll Say Anything We Want
11. Wayfarer
12. The End
- Punk rock
- Post-hardcore
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Remedy Lane

Pain of Salvation
1. Of Two Beginnings
2. Ending Theme
3. Fandango
4. A Trace of Blood
5. This Heart of Mine (I Pledge)
6. Undertow
7. Rope Ends
8. Chain Sling ●
9. Dryad of the Woods
10. Remedy Lane
11. Waking Every God
12. Second Love
13. Beyond the Pale
- Progressive metal
- Progressive rock
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Nordland I

Bathory
1. Prelude
2. Nordland ●
3. Winterblot
4. Dragons Breath
5. Ring of Gold
6. Foreverdark Woods
7. Broken Sword
8. Great Hall Awaits a Fallen Brother
9. Mother Earth Father Thunder
10. Heimfard
- Folk metal
- Viking metal
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Nothing

Meshuggah
1. Stengah
2. Rational Gaze ●
3. Perpetual Black Second
4. Closed Eye Visuals
5. Glints Collide
6. Organic Shadows
7. Straws Pulled at Random
8. Spasm
9. Nebulous
10. Obsidian
- Progressive metal
- Avant-garde metal
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Resurrection Through Carnage

Bloodbath
1. Ways to the Grave
2. So You Die
3. Mass Strangulation
4. Death Delirium ●
5. Buried by the Dead
6. The Soulcollector
7. Bathe in Blood
8. Trail of Insects
9. Like Fire
10. Cry My Name
- Death metal
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The Process of Belief

Bad Religion
1. Supersonic
2. Prove It
3. Can't Stop It
4. Broken
5. Destined for Nothing
6. Materialist
7. Kyoto Now!
8. Sorrow ●
9. Epiphany
10. Evangeline
11. The Defense
12. The Lie
13. You Don't Belong
14. Bored and Extremely Dangerous
- Melodic hardcore
- Punk rock
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Sons of Northern Darkness

Immortal
1. One by One
2. Sons of Northern Darkness ●
3. Tyrants
4. Demonium
5. Within the Dark Mind
6. In My Kingdom Cold
7. Antarctica
8. Beyond the North Waves
- Blackened thrash metal
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Warriors of the World

Manowar
1. Call to Arms
2. The Fight for Freedom
3. Nessun Dorma
4. Valhalla
5. Swords in the Wind
6. An American Trilogy
7. The March
8. Warriors of the World United ●
9. Hand of Doom
10. House of Death
11. Fight Until We Die
- Heavy metal
- Power metal
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Unholy Cult

Immolation
1. Of Martyrs and Men
2. Sinful Nature
3. Unholy Cult ●
4. Wolf Among the Flock
5. Reluctant Messiah
6. A Kingdom Divided
7. Rival the Eminent
8. Bring Them Down
- Death metal
- Technical death metal
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Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow

Down
1. Lysergik Funeral Procession ●
2. There's Something on My Side
3. The Man That Follows Hell
4. Stained Glass Cross
5. Ghosts Along the Mississippi
6. Learn From This Mistake
7. Beautifully Depressed
8. Where I'm Going
9. Doobinterlude
10. New Orleans Is a Dying Whore
11. The Seed
12. Lies, I Don't Know What They Say But ...
13. Flambeaux's Jamming with St. Aug
14. Dog Tired
15. Landing on the Mountains of Meggido
- Sludge metal
- Stoner metal
- Southern metal
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Soulfly
1. Downstroy
2. Seek 'n' Strike
3. Enterfaith
4. One
5. L.O.T.M.
6. Brasil
7. Tree of Pain ●
8. One Nation
9. 9-11-01
10. Call to Arms
11. Four Elements
12. Soulfly III
13. Sangue de bairro
14. Zumbi
- Groove metal
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Blacklisted

Neko Case
1. Things That Scare Me ●
2. Deep Red Bells
3. Outro with Bees
4. Lady Pilot
5. Tightly
6. Look for Me (I'll Be Around)
7. Stinging Velvet
8. Pretty Girls
9. I Missed the Point
10. Blacklisted
11. I Wish I Was the Moon
12. Runnin' out of Fools
13. Ghost Writing
- Alt-country
- Gothic Americana
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One by One

Foo Fighters
1. All My Life ●
2. Low
3. Have It All
4. Times Like These
5. Disenchanted Lullaby
6. Tired of You
7. Halo
8. Lonely as You
9. Overdrive
10. Burn Away
11. Come Back
- Alternative rock
- Hard rock
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Castaways & Cutouts

The Decemberists
1. Leslie Anne Levine
2. Here I Dreamt I Was an Architect
3. July, July!
4. A Cautionary Song
5. Odalisque ●
6. Cocoon
7. Grace Cathedral Hill
8. The Legionnaire's Lament
9. Clementine
10. California One / Youth and Beeauty Brigade
- Folk rock
- Chamber folk
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Scarlet's Walk

Tori Amos
1. Amber Waves
2. A Sorta Fairytale ●
3. Wednesday
4. Strange
5. Carbon
6. Crazy
7. Wampum Prayer
8. Don't Make Me Come to Vegas
9. Sweet Sangria
10. Your Cloud
11. Pancake
12. I Can't See New York
13. Mrs. Jesus
14. Taxi Ride
15. Another Girl's Paradise
16. Scarlet's Walk
17. Virginia
18. Gold Dust
- Art pop
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Degradation Trip

Jerry Cantrell
1. Psychotic Break
2. Bargain Basement Howard Hughes
3. Anger Rising ●
4. Angel Eyes
5. Solitude
6. Mother's Spinning in Her Grave (Glass Dick Jones)
7. Hellbound
8. Give It a Name
9. Castaway
10. She Was My Girl
11. Chemical Tribe
12. Spiderbite
13. Locked on
14. Gone
- Alternative metal
- Doom metal
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1919 Eternal

Black Label Society
1. Bleed for Me ●
2. Lords of Destruction
3. Demise of Sanity
4. Life, Birth, Blood, Doom
5. Bridge to Cross
6. Battering Ram
7. Speedball
8. Graveyard Disciples
9. Genocide Junkies
10. Lost Heaven
11. Refuse to Bow Down
12. Mass Murder Machine
13. Berserkers
14. America the Beautiful
- Heavy metal
- Southern metal
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Murray Street

Sonic Youth
1. The Empty Page
2. Disconnection Notice
3. Rain on Tin ●
4. Karen Revisited
5. Radical Adults Lick Godhead Style
6. Plastic Sun
7. Sympathy for the Strawberry
- Noise rock
- Post-rock
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Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

Wilco
1. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
2. Kamera
3. Radio Cure
4. War on War
5. Jesus, Etc.
6. Ashes of American Flags
7. Heavy Metal Drummer ●
8. I'm the Man Who Loves You
9. Pot Kettle Luck
10. Poor Places
11. Reservations
- Art rock
- Indie rock
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Oceanic

ISIS
1. The Beginning and the End ●
2. The Other
3. False Light
4. Carry
5. -
6. Maritime
7. Weight
8. From Sinking
9. Hym
- Post-metal
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A Night at the Opera

Blind Guardian
1. Precious Jerusalem
2. Battlefield
3. Under the Ice
4. Sadly Sings Destiny
5. The Maiden and the Minstrel Knight
6. Wait for an Answer
7. The Soulforged
8. Age of False Innocence
9. Punishment Divine
10. And Then There Was Silence ●
- Power metal
- Progressive metal
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Spend the Night

The Donnas
1. It's on the Rocks
2. Take It off ●
3. Who invited You
4. All Messed up
5. Dirty Denim
6. You Wanna Get High
7. I Don't Care (So There)
8. Pass It Around
9. Too Bad About Your Girl
10. Not the One
11. Please Don't Tease
12. Take Me to the Backseat
13. 5 o'clock in the Morning
- Hard rock
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Reroute to Remain

In Flames
1. Reroute to Remain
2. System
3. Drifter
4. Trigger ●
5. Cloud Connected
6. Transparent
7. Dawn on a New Day
8. Egonomic
9. Minus
10. Dismiss the Cynics
11. Free Fall
12. Dark Signs
13. Metaphor
14. Black & White
- Malodic death metal
- Alternative metal
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Remission

Mastodon
1. Crusher Destroyer
2. March of the Fire Ants ●
3. Where Strides the Behemoth
4. Workhorse
5. Ol'e Nessie
6. Burning Man
7. Trainwreck
8. Trampled Under Hoof
9. Trilobite
10. Mother Puncher
11. Elephant Man
- Sludge metal
- Progressive metal
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In Absentia

Porcupine Tree
1. Blackest Eyes ●
2. Trains
3. Lips of Ashes
4. The Sound of Muzak
5. Gravity Eyelids
6. Wedding Nails
7. Prodigal
8. .3
9. The Creator Has a Masterpiece
10. Heartattack in a Layby
11. Strip the Soul
12. Collapse the Light into Earth
- Progressive rock
- Progressive metal
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Damage Done

Dark Tranquility
1. Final Resistance
2. Hours Passed in Exile
3. Monochromatic Stains ●
4. Single Part of Two
5. The Treason Wall
6. Format C: For Cortex
7. Damage Done
8. Cathode Ray Sunshine
9. The Enemy
10. I, Deception
11. White Noise / Black Silence
12. Ex Nihilo
- Melodic death metal
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Audioslave

Audioslave
1. Cochise ●
2. Show Me How to Live
3. Gasoline
4. What You Are
5. Like a Stone
6. Set It off
7. Shadow on the Sun
8. I Am the Highway
9. Exploder
10. Hypnotize
11. Bring 'em Back Alive
12. Light My Way
13. Getaway Car
14. The Last Remaining Light
- Alternative rock
- Hard rock
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Songs for the Deaf

Queens of the Stone Age
1. You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire
2. No One Knows ●
3. First It Giveth
4. Song for the Dead
5. The Sky Is Fallin'
6. Six Shooter
7. Hangin' Tree
8. Go with the Flow
9. Gonna Leave You
10. Do It Again
11. God Is in the Radio
12. Another Love Song
13. Song for the Deaf
14. Mosquito Song
- Stoner rock
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The Mantle

Agalloch
1. A Celebration for the Death of Man
2. In the Shadow of Our Pale Companion ●
3. Odal
4. I Am the Wooden Doors
5. The Lodge
6. You Were But a Ghost in My Arms
7. The Hawthorn Passage
8. ... And the Great Cold Death of the Earth
9. A Desolation Song
- Atmospheric black metal
- Post-metal
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By the Way

Red Hot Chili Peppers
1. By the Way
2. Universally Speaking
3. This Is the Place
4. Dosed
5. Don't Forget Me
6. The Zephyr Song
7. Can't Stop
8. I Could Die for you
9. Midnight
10. Throw Away Your Television
11. Cabron ●
12. Tear
13. On Mercury
14. Minor Thing
15. Warm Tape
16. Venice Queen
- Funk rock
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Deliverance

Opeth
1. Wreath
2. Deliverance ●
3. A Fair Judgement
4. For Absent Friends
5. Master's Apprentices
6. By the Pain I See in Others
- Progressive death metal
- Progressive metal
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Riot Act

Pearl Jam
1. Can't Keep
2. Save You
3. Love Boat Captain
4. Cropduster
5. Ghost
6. I Am Mine ●
7. Thumbing My Way
8. You Are
9. Ger Right
10. Green Disease
11. Help Help
12. Bu$Hleaguer
13. 1/2 Full
14. Arc
15. All or None
- Alternative rock
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Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence

Dream Theater
1. The Glass Prison ●
2. Blind Faith
3. Misunderstood
4. The Great Debate
5. Disappear
6. Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence
- Progressive metal
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Century Child

Nightwish
1. Bless the Child
2. End of All Hope
3. Dead to the World
4. Ever Dream
5. Slaying the Dreamer
6. Forever Yours
7. Ocean Soul
8. Feel for You
9. The Phantom of the Opera
10. Beauty of the Beast ●
11. Lagoon
12. The Wayfarer
- Symphonic metal
- Power metal

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Critical Mass

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On Fire

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Within the Depths of a Darkened Forest

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The Creek Drank the Cradle

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Resound the Horn

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In the Rectory of the Bizarre Reverend

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Surrounded by Thieves

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Let Go

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The Cold White Light

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Symbol of Life

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Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild

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Woven Hand

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Ritual

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In Their Darkened Shrines

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Heavy Rocks (2002)

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Caution

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Remedy Lane

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Nordland I

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Nothing

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Resurrection Through Carnage

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The Process of Belief

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Sons of Northern Darkness

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Warriors of the World

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Unholy Cult

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Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow

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