Author: Aleš Podbrežnik
Photos: Aleš Podbrežnik
Location: Balingen / Messegelände / Germany
Concert date: July 12, 2013
Attendance: 10,000
Ticket price: €95.00
Mornings at Bang Your Head!!! are the shortest of the whole year. After the “warm-up day” – RockLine report HERE – a recovery phase is a must. And having the riff of German thrash metallers Wanted Inc. start pecking away at the attic of your skull fifteen minutes before ten is not exactly a pleasant experience. Unlike my “smoked” head and soured perception of the world around me, though, the guys on stage surely felt nothing of the sort at that hour: guitarist Andy Meier, singer Frank N. Stoner, bassist Lukas Semmelbauer and drummer Hermann Weiss presented their music with great pride. It’s a kind of mash-up of the German Teutonic thrash metal tradition. From Tankard, through Sodom, through Inslumber and Paradox, to Purgatory. Add the freshly released new studio album »Demons We Created«, which came out just this July, and the up-and-coming lads have every right to be proud of a situation that’s developing very nicely for them so far. Sadly, though, Wanted Inc. are above all a generic band, which means they’ve still got plenty of work ahead of them.
The real retro vibe, a tribute to old-school Euro thrash metal, was brought to the stage by Denmark’s Artillery. The veterans, whose core is made up of guitarist brothers Morten and Michael Stützer and their loyal partner on bass Peter Thorslund, started mowing everybody down with machine-gun fire as the prehistoric classic The Challenge, taken from Artillery’s second album »Terror Squad«, came rattling off the stage. That’s when the festival started to take real shape, with the proper noisy drive of concise, authentic songwriting. Artillery took on a new singer, Michael Bastholm Dahl, at the end of last September, and it’s not long since original drummer Carsten Nielsen retired, with Josua Madsen now in his seat. The set list, generously loaded with the band’s first two albums, gave a big reason to celebrate to the already nicely packed area in front of the giant festival stage. Unfortunately, new singer Michael Bastholm Dahl doesn’t have quite the convincing stage presence of his predecessor Søren Adamsen (who used a helmet on stage during his vocal performance) and who fit tastefully among a bunch of seasoned veterans who are surely enjoying a new creative spring. The band is supposed to release a new studio album this year. Artillery kept the vehemence of their uncompromising opening right through to the end, wrapping up their repertoire with one more classic. As expected, they sent one last projectile into the crowd with the song The Almighty.
From the morning thrash racket to gentler sounds. But no less predatory. That’s thanks to Swedish sleaze rockers Crazy Lixx and their three-quarters-of-an-hour set, which ran at full intensity. With a less notorious outfit and less theatrical stage act than their countrymen Hardcore Superstar, the guys turned the festival mood upside down! They drew in a completely different crowd, who reveled in a simple but boldly clipped gallop, dictated by the clip-clopping rhythm of anthemically catchy marches. This blend of potent rock attitude and melodic catchiness naturally conveyed the point of the new album »Riot Avenue« (2012), from the opening Young Blood to the title track and the closing Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. The band slyly kept the performance highly dynamic with a slightly cheap, predictable tactical trick, covering evergreens by Quiet Riot and Twisted Sister, and rounded out the set with the popular singles Heroes Are Forever and Want It. No highlights, but very likeable.
Dream Evil count as a seasoned band, having been around since 1992. Even though their discography is fairly modest, the guys have put out a few very good albums with all the typical hallmarks of Euro power metal. Of course, the days when drummer Snowy Shaw (XXX, ex-Therion, ex-Mercyful Fate, ex-King Diamond) and lead/rhythm guitarist Gus G. (Ozzy Osbourne, Firewind) were part of this quintet are long gone. Still, the band is held together with undiminished intensity by Scandinavian producer veteran Fredrik Nordström, who rubs shoulders with the rest of the crew on rhythm guitar. On stage the band comes across tight, coherent, unbreakable and confident in everything. Power metal, head-on and daft. The Accept – Priest – Primal Fear riff-forging pattern is almost an exotic thing these days, yet Dream Evil still cling to it faithfully and effectively. The band is announcing a new studio album this year. Vocalist Niklas Isfeldt hasn’t lost an ounce of his charge as a convincing performer. The short-haired singer, who has picked up a gray hair or two and a few extra kilos over the years of defiance, grabbed the crowd right away when the band kicked off with Immortal and carried on his metal march through tried-and-true standards In the Night, United, Bang Your Head, In Flames You Burn, Children of the Night, The Chosen Ones, Chasing the Dragon and the closing The Book Of Heavy Metal (March Of The Metallians). Dream Evil’s performance at Bang Your Head!!! was an exclusive one. It was only the band’s fourth show this year. Probably their first and only summer show of the year.
H.E.A.T. – the hot glam revival export from Scandinavia – continued the Swedish invasion of the main stage on the festival’s first day. The band, who released their current studio album »Address the Nation« last year, naturally used their summer shows to promote it, since the up-and-coming lads are already announcing its successor for 2014. RockLine caught them on the stages of the “washed-out” Hi-Rock festival in early June 2013 and was pleasantly surprised by the intensity of their stage dynamics, the coherence and tightness of their performance, all fueled by that innate Swedish drive for perfection. At this show, too, there wasn’t a single execution slip to be felt. The main driving engine of the band on stage remains the untamed vocalist Erik Grönwall, who got deep into his acting role and was the first on the festival to really make use of the stage’s “cat walk”. From the opening Breaking the Silence to the closing It’s All About Tonight, the guys kept up an extremely likeable and infectious energy of stage charisma, rewarding listeners with great sound and a tight performance, topped off especially by wonderfully pulled-off multi-vocal harmonies. Loud ovations and the crowd’s intense response confirmed that the Scandinavian wave of “glam rock revival” is very popular and appreciated right now. A thoroughly sizzling show!
Masterplan are a German power metal band of the younger vintage, led by seasoned music veteran and guitarist Roland Grapow. After it seemed that the irreplaceable voice of Jorn Lande would finally settle in the lineup following the release of the studio album »Time To Be King« (2010), he gave up his spot in Masterplan once again to another vocalist, due to obligations to his own band and other projects. The role was taken over by At Vance singer Rick Altzi. Masterplan are one of the last bands to show up on the “tail end” of the power metal boom (which started with HammerFall in the second half of the nineties) and to survive the flood of bands in the same genre. Probably thanks to the Roland Grapow name alone. After one of Helloween’s most respected releases, »The Dark Ride«, he left the band in 2001 together with drummer Uli Kusch and founded Masterplan. The reason? Helloween’s conservative faction wouldn’t allow any change in the band’s sound and style, which is a real shame, since »The Dark Ride« was a welcome departure from the band’s chewed-over and worn-out figures. Anyway, Masterplan are a lineup of hardened musicians who made excellent use of their Balingen show. They opened it with the two most famous songs of their career. With the singles Enlighten Me followed by Spirit Never Dies. A contagiously predatory opening, no doubt about it! The band was completely overhauled last year. Next to Grapow, the only original member left is Axel Mackenrott on keyboards. Besides new vocalist Altzi – who gave a performance that decently convinced us he’s worth the spot Lande left him – the lineup was filled out last year by Czech drummer Martin Skaroupka, who previously drummed for Cradle of Filth, and Jari Kainulainen, who played bass for many years in the classic “Tolkki era” Stratovarius lineup. So Grapow is leaving nothing to chance. Interestingly, the band picked just two songs from the freshly released album »Novum Initium« (2013) for the show (Keep Your Dream Alive, Betrayal), and built the set around the debut »Masterplan« (2003). For a veteran concertgoer of my caliber, I’d say: the ideal choice. »Masterplan« is the brightest point of Masterplan’s career! Grapow knows Masterplan are in a phase of new calibration and regeneration (the album title itself confirms it), so he went for the tried-and-true move of “carefully feeling out the ground underfoot.” The band’s name will rest on old laurels for a while, and only the next album (the one that follows »Novum Initium«) will tell us whether the band still dares to develop artistically, or will keep staying within generic and tested frameworks of musical composition. A very strong show, which the music veterans of course delivered in Balingen with routine, experience and great know-how!
Legendary pioneering death metallers from Scandinavia who played a decisive role in the development of the distinctive death metal sound of the old continent, a sound that many bands went on to chase, are without a doubt Entombed. After the album “Wolverine Blues”, a longer hiatus made them lose touch with the scene, and of the original members only singer Lars Goran Petrov and guitarist Alex Hellid are still sticking it out. The band’s show was a huge change of pace for the festival’s first day, because up to then, with the exception of Artillery, the crowd had been entertained mostly by younger bands that don’t bring any particular originality or insight to the music. With Entombed it’s a totally different story. This is a band with a strictly recognizable musical form. And the little guy with the disheveled hair, Lars Goran Petrov, is no joke. He still produces an ear-splitting growl whose quality hasn’t wavered one bit. Entombed stared down the biggest afternoon heat! The band hit head-on with a crowbar, opening the show with the classic death metal march Living Dead (album »Clandestine«, 1991). Mosh! For the first time at the festival! The band mostly mixed up the set with classics from the first three albums (Revel In Flesh, Stranger Aeons, Out Of Hand), and didn’t let up in the closing stretch either, when, via Eyemaster, I For An Eye, Left Hand Path and the expected Wolverine Blues, they hinted that we can look forward to a new studio album, cut from the true old-school sprung mattresses of the band’s death metal roots. Entombed’s show is a blend of the outstanding chemistry between the members, which takes care of the very precise execution of the repertoire. The rhythm line was strikingly filigree, while the most prominent figure of the band in 2013 is definitely, front and center, vocalist Lars. By build he’s more of a “goblin on duty” than the God-fearing thunderer you’d expect in the death metal vocalist’s spot. But that’s no yardstick for judging. Lars Goran Petrov remains, despite his funny appearance, an excellent and utterly convincing growler and an essential building block of Entombed’s stature and voice!
Meanwhile the stage in the neighboring Volksbankmesse hall came to life too, where German death metallers Fleshcrawl started thundering mercilessly. Snotty horsemen of the apocalypse, who take after Sweden’s Dismember in sound as well as style, slaughtered everything alive in the hall! The start alone was already intense, as the band spread their wrath without mercy through the songs As Blood Rains From The Sky, the excellent Soulskinner and the older classic Dark Dimension. The crowd’s response was a touch different from the frenzy of last year’s Metal Manie festival on the Komenski Kras, which suggests that Germans are just a slightly more numb audience, since they get gigs in abundance. Still, by mid-afternoon the hall was already filling with the smell of excess alcohol fumes, brewed in the mouths of countless German beer drinkers, which naturally affected the many “stiffened” bodies limping around the hall. The “holes” in front of the stage showed intense moshing, and Fleshcrawl crowned their hall show with excellent tightness. Charismatic vocalist Sven Gross was especially impressive with his presence! The riff chemistry between the two guitars and the flexible, dynamically lively rhythm section are, all told, a proven guarantee of explosiveness for this hardened death metal quintet. Fleshcrawl surprised with the very ending, when they took on a cover of The Day Man Lost, originally by Carnage.
More variety followed with the show by legendary doom metal veterans from Sweden, Lake Of Tears. First Candlemass at the warm-up day, then Lake Of Tears the next day. Nice, huh? This is a band with something to say, having been around since the early nineties. The album »Illwill«, released last year, continues the confessional trend of its predecessor »Moons And Mushrooms« (2007) and delivers, in this new era, a notably wound-up, dark doom metal album for the band, which even contains elements of death metal. So you could say that Lake of Tears are in a way closing their development circle here, having moved closer to the basic starting points of the album »Greater Art« (1994). At the same time the new album carries a convincing degree of artistic maturity, with both progressive and psychedelic elements, on top of the aforementioned “doom/gothic” and “death metal” touches. It’s no longer big news that Lake Of Tears are a band that has developed the point of the metal tradition in various hybrid forms on its albums, and the album »Illwill« keeps this trademark of the band alive for new times in a most convincing way. The band opened with two classically conceived but new Lake Of Tears numbers, Taste Of Hell and Illwill. A predictable continuation of the show, though, compared with the November experience, when we caught the band in Vienna (they were opening for Pain and Moonspell at the time). They spiced up the repertoire by slotting in the song Sweetwater, and The Greymen, Boogie Bubble and Raven Land rang out as well.
After the “heat storm” with Entombed, the main stage was taken over by Danish hard rock veterans Pretty Maids. That Pretty Maids remain a highly regarded and recognized band in Germany is proven by the crowd’s tremendous reactions at their shows. True, the crowd in front of the stage got thoroughly reshuffled after Entombed, but the inner circle of the area was extremely packed. Up to Pretty Maids’ show, definitely the most. The band showed up in the identical lineup as two years ago at the very same festival. Back then the Bang Your Head!!! organizers gave them a smaller hall stage. Pretty Maids arrived in Balingen once again with a new studio album in their pocket! They served it up right away, taking on the more aggressive Mother Of All Lies and, after it, the catchy I See Ghosts. The third song already brought a surprise! Needles in the Dark from the cult album »Future World« – that album kept being seasoned in the rest of the set too, when the band cut loose with Yellow Rain and Rodeo, and in the closing stretch got the crowd on its feet by playing (as expected) the title track too (and of course the expected Back to Back and Red, Hot & Heavy didn’t go missing either). The excellent album “Pandemonium” (2010) didn’t go overlooked either, with the melodically catchy I.N.V.U. and the phenomenal Little Drops Of Heaven. Pretty Maids are made of the right stuff. Ronnie Atkins handled the vocal duties excellently in the middle of the heat. The hard rock singer veteran no longer has that vocal freshness, but with his precious experience and knowing how to “lead” the crowd during a show, he fully won us over and convinced us. Hands in the air. From the front row to the mixing desk. A stretch of nearly 100 meters! It’s incredible how much space the seasoned Ken Hammer covers with just one guitar. Pretty Maids remain a stage attraction that keeps its dedication and bite! After what we enjoyed at Bang Your Head!!!, we can sincerely look forward to catching one of the band’s already confirmed autumn tour dates around Europe!
Finnish power metallers Stratovarius jumped onto this year’s Bang Your Head!!! lineup “from the second tier”! After W.A.S.P. canceled their show. They’re also a crew that has been through quite a lot in their career and survived it. From peaks to breakneck falls. The new album »Nemesis« (2013) is considered the band’s best “post Tolkki era” album. The band brought back some creative songwriting freshness on it, and above all the songs please with their successful anthemic catchiness and infectious choruses. Bolstered by new drummer Rolf Pilve, who last year replaced the retired drumming legend Jörg Michael, Stratovarius slipped their classics Speed Of Light, Kiss Of Judas, the absolute surprise of the show Against The Wind from the album »Forth Dimension« (1995), the must-have Black Diamond among the new songs Abandon, Halcyon Days, Dragons and the single Unbreakable, and finished the show with the »Infinite« (2000) classic Hunting High And Low. The show confirmed that Timo Kotipelto has lost some height over the years, and the band adjusted the tuning accordingly (it was lower – set to suit the singer’s current vocal characteristics). But it’s nice to realize that Tolkki’s successor, guitarist Matias Kupiainen, is an unstoppable machine, a true perpetuum mobile, who thrills with his outstanding stage performance. He’s one of the most (if you will) schooled, “hotshot” guitar virtuosos Finland has produced to date, dazzling with his brilliant combination of exceptional speed, precision and control over the instrument known as the electric guitar. So Stratovarius show no signs of rusting or fading yet! The bravura crossfire of solo escapades between Matias Kupiainen and Jens Johansson was once again one of the biggest attractions of the Stratovarius show.
Speaking of Finns, here come Lordi! Lordi closed the 2011 edition of Bang Your Head!!! They played in the hall on the second day, after the festival headliner played the main stage (Accept). This time Lordi took a main stage slot right before the first day’s headliner, Saxon. Unfortunately, contrary to expectations, Lordi delivered the worst stage sound of the festival’s first day. This band already leans on plenty of sound backing tracks throughout their shows. But this time the bad sound really showed its teeth. The guitar was barely audible during the show. Or it was droning inconspicuously, buried somewhere deep under the layers of the other instruments. Lordi naturally made up for it with their popularity and their famous shock-show theater. It didn’t bring a single standout moment, but the mere sight of the quintet is attraction number one if you’ve never seen Lordi live before. As for the rest of the theater, full of zombie rituals, cannibalism rituals and autopsies, let’s not even waste words. In the style of their famous satire and parody, Lordi presented the songs The Riff, We’re Not Bad for the Kids (We’re Worse) and Sincerely with Love from the new studio effort »To Beast Or Not To Beast« (2013). They also introduced a revamped lineup. Drummer Mana, who replaced the late Otus, and new keyboardist Hella, who replaced her predecessor Awa. Besides all the stage clutter, the other factor that means a band needn’t worry if the sound isn’t good at a show is the number of hits weighing down their repertoire. Lordi handled that with the expected performance of Who’s Your Daddy?, They Only Come Oout At Night, Devil Is A Loser, Eurovision winner Hard Rock Hallelujah and the closing Would You Love A Monsterman. Invigorating fun? No doubt. But not for sound purists!
And what to say about the show by the first day’s main stars? Almost nothing. Saxon are simply our old acquaintances. If you follow the daily news in metal, Saxon quickly become “everyday acquaintances.” It’s incredible that these veterans, formed way back in 1976, have not only stuck around on the scene but are generating exceptional productivity in the studio in their mature years. That goes for their constant visits to European concert stages too (they wrote off the USA long ago). They had barely visited us in the Slovenian capital as part of the first leg of the new European »Sacrifice« tour when they launched an invasion of this summer’s festival stages. The band needs no introduction; it has commanded the biggest and most important stages of European festivals, Wacken included. So Saxon know no unknowns, no hide-and-seek. But the guys used this show to equip it to the max. With pyrotechnic effects including occasional salvos of smoke screens, sparks and fire, a visit from the famous eagle, and by building out the stage with additional stage lighting. Nigel Glockler, drums and all, was lifted high into the air on a movable lift during his drum solo.
In such circumstances the band’s leader and vocalist Biff Byford’s untamed metal heart is playing especially intensely. The man was grinning all through the show. The cheerful commander kept shaking out anecdotes in the breaks and entertaining the crowd at the expense of his subordinates in the crew. That evening his tongue was especially well-oiled. On one occasion he even mockingly stepped over to the festival’s main organizer Horst, who was watching the show from up close, sitting on the far right monitor, and shoved a microphone under his nose so he’d sing the simple chorus combination of »Wheels Of Steel«. The man, who has seen it all, was apparently so thrown that he couldn’t get out even the letter »W«, though it’s clear that the name Horst E. Franz stands for a rocky mountain massif of the German metal scene.
To console Slovenian fans who weren’t at Bang your Head!!!, they got to see the band on June 12, 2013 at Kino Šiška! Saxon played a show of the same length at Bang Your Head!!! No special surprises. They built the set around older classics, really cult numbers, which they slipped back into the set list (To Hell And Back Again, Motorcycle Man, The Eagle Has Landed, And The Bands Played On), while a few newer songs dropped out of it, and (sadly) so did a little sweet treat like the excellent ballad »Forever Free« from the album Iron Wheels (played in Ljubljana a month earlier).
In the position Saxon found themselves in that evening – a band with tremendous mileage, experience and a battle-tested strategy that lets them hold their own on any stage in the world – victory was there for the taking. With a fantastic run through a repertoire that once again delivered some unforgettable elemental old-school riffs born in the time of the N.W.O.B.H.M. movement, Biff Byford’s commanding routine (among other things he used a flag offered to him by fans in the crowd to fire up the scene, and, as ever, the denim jacket full of patches that the elder statesman of metal singers gratefully put on in the last third of the show), all the way to the theater of the show’s stage design! Bombastic! Tailor-made for a potential concert release on an audio-visual format. No more, no less. Magical. Hypnotic. And once again in harmony with the authenticity of the unique heavy metal tradition of the great Saxon!
A person who has seen Saxon in every possible incarnation and stage variety, given the “privilege” of the headliner role on the first day of BYH!!!, would still have expected from Saxon in 2013 a set at least 15 minutes longer and the inclusion of some kind of surprise. And so the bitter realization that there was no standout moment couldn’t be hidden even by all the stage clutter and the resulting bombast of the band’s show at the Balingen festival. Something you don’t even notice at first sight and sound, under the influence of “seduced emotions,” turns into the realization of a bitter truth once the post-concert sobering sets in! If you were watching Saxon for the second or third time in your life and happened upon the Balingen production, you could only applaud. No doubts.
The festival’s first day didn’t end with Saxon, though. In the hall, Die Apokaliptischen Reiter, a successful project of Sodom boss Tom Angelripper, were raising hell. And the hall was “sealed.” It got so packed that they stopped letting people in. So we went for another round of sandwiches at the nearby Subway, and then to bed. British veterans Onslaught were announced in the hall between one and two in the morning, but Morpheus’ dreamy wings never woke us from our sweet sleepy stupor till morning.
Setlist
ARTILLERY:
1. The Challenge
2. In the Trash
3. At War With Science
4. Terror Squad
5. When Death Comes
6. By Inheritance
7. Death Is an Illusion
8. Rise Above It All
9. Khomaniac
10. The Almighty
CRAZY LIXX:
1. Young Blood
2. Lock Up Your Daughter
3. Riot Avenue
4. Cum On Feel The Noize
5. We’re Not Gonna Take It (Twisted Sister)
6. Want It
7. Rock And A Hard Place
8. Road To Babylon
9. 21 Til I Die
10. Heroes Are Forever
11. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot
H.E.A.T.:
1. Breaking the Silence
2. Better Off Alone
3. 1000 Miles
4. Late Night Lady
5. Straight For Your Heart
6. Beg Beg Beg
7. Downtown
8. Falling Down
9. Heartbreaker
10. Danger Road
11. Living on the Run
12. It’s All About Tonight
MASTERPLAN:
1. Enlighten Me
2. Spirit Never Die
3. Lost and Gone
4. Crystal Night
5. Betrayal
6. Crimson Rider
7. Back for My Life
8. Time to Be King
9. Keep Your Dream Alive
10. Heroes
11. Soulburn
12. Kind Hearted Light
13. Crawling From Hell
FLESHCRAWL:
1. As Blood Rains From The Sky
2. Soulskinner
3. Dark Dimension
4. Structures of Death
5. Damned in Fire
6. Into the Fire of Hell
7. Slaughter at Dawn
8. Under the Banner of Death
9. Beneath a Dying Sun
10. Written in Blood
11. From the Dead to the Living
12. Flesh Bloody Flesh
13. Made of Flesh
14. The Day Man Lost
PRETTY MAIDS:
1. Mother of All Lies
2. I See Ghosts
3. Needles in the Dark
4. Rodeo
5. I.N.V.U.
6. Yellow Rain
7. Little Drops of Heaven
8. Future World
9. Back to Back
10. Red, Hot and Heavy
ENTOMBED:
1. Living Dead
2. Like This With the Devil
3. Out of Hand
4. Revel In Flesh
5. To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth
6. Stranger Aeons
7. Damn Deal Done
8. I for an Eye
9. Eyemaster
10. Supposed to Rot
11. Left Hand Path
12. Wolverine Blues
STRATOVARIUS:
1. Abandon
2. Speed of Light
3. Halcyon Days
4. The Kiss of Judas
5. Dragons
6. Against the Wind
7. Black Diamond
8. Unbreakable
9. Hunting High and Low
LORDI:
1. Intro (God Of Thunder)
2. We’re Not Bad for the Kids (We’re Worse)
3. Bringing Back the Balls to Rock
4. The Riff
5. Who’s Your Daddy?
6. Blood Red Sandman
7. It Snows in Hell
8. I’m the Best
9. Hard Rock Hallelujah
10. They Only Come Out at Night
11. Devil Is a Loser
—encore—
12. Sincerely With Love
13. Would You Love a Monsterman?
SAXON:
1. Procession (intro)
2. Sacrifice
3. Wheels of Terror
4. Power and the Glory
5. Heavy Metal Thunder
6. Solid Ball of Rock
7. I’ve Got to Rock (To Stay Alive)
8. To Hell and Back Again
9. Night of the Wolf
10. The Eagle Has Landed
11. Conquistador
12. Drum Solo (Nigel Glockler)
13. Motorcycle Man
14. Stand Up and Fight
15. Dallas 1 PM
16. And the Bands Played On
17. 747 (Strangers in the Night)
18. Wheels of Steel
—encore—
19. Crusader
20. Strong Arm of the Law
21. Denim and Leather
22. Princess of the Night
ONSLAUGHT:
1. Born for War
2. Killing Peace
3. Let There Be Death
4. Angels of Death
5. Destroyer of Worlds
6. Metal Forces
7. Fight With the Beast
8. Planting Seeds of Hate
9. Demoniac
10. Shellshock
11. Burn
—encore—
12. The Sound of Violence
13. Power From Hell
14. Thermonuclear Devastation
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