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    Lumsk's album 'smund Frgdagjevar' recites the medieval ballad of the same name, and made it into an folk-metal album.

    It's not really ancient, but close enough.

    here's a music video:


    Too bad you won't get a word of it. It's about a troll (surprise, surprise).
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    I can think of like, 4 or 5 more Iron Maiden songs that would fit the bill.

    Rime of the Ancient Mariner
    Powerslave
    Flight of Icarus
    Quest for Fire

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    Metallica - Creeping Death
    Haggard - everything!
    Ancient Rites - ditto
    Bathory - the entire "blood fire death" and "hammerheart" albums
    Symphoney X - the entire "odessy" album.
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    Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song


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    I am a Viking - Yngwie Malmsteem



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    Iron Maiden- Genghis Khan



    Iron Maiden- Alexander the Great (Which you already have, But **** it.)

    Those two, As well as Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Maiden's best song) Are all excellent. I won't post rime because you need to hear it in all it's glory not in it's youtube halved glory because we cant post videos more then 10 minutes long.

    Nile has some good stuff too if your into Death metal.
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    Not exactly ancient, but Iron Maiden's "The Nomad" as well. A great song.

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    No band is better than Maiden with taking historical events/figures/stories and turning them into amazing songs hell even more recent Maiden stuff like Paschendale though obviously not ancient times there.

    Cruelty has a human heart. Everyman does play his part
    Terror of the men we kill. The human heart is hungry still

    I stand my ground for the very last time. Gun is ready as I stand in line
    Nervous wait for the whistle to blow. Rush of blood and over we go

    Blood is falling like the rain. It's crimson cloak unveils again
    The sound of guns can't hid their shame. and so we die on Paschendale

    Dodging shrapnel and barbed wire. Running straight at the cannon fire
    Running blind as I hold my breath. Say a prayer symphony of death
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    I've never listened to them but the prog rock band "Spartacus" is supposed to be pretty good and they have a bunch of albums with Roman/Greek themes.
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    Amon Amarth- Runes to my memory

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    Quote Originally Posted by Centurion-Lucius-Vorenus View Post
    Amon Amarth- Runes to my memory
    Yeah but nothing original by them and if anything they are over decade+ too late in both sound and style and intro for that song sounds like it was ripped right out of Morbid Angel's play book.

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    Quote Originally Posted by danzig View Post
    Yeah but nothing original by them and if anything they are over decade+ too late in both sound and style and intro for that song sounds like it was ripped right out of Morbid Angel's play book.
    I dont really like the band just the song.

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    Godsmack's Voodoo and Voodoo Too. Have tribal elements in them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Saxon Huscarl View Post
    You sir, win this topic. +rep

    No band is better than Maiden with taking historical events/figures/stories and turning them into amazing songs hell even more recent Maiden stuff like Paschendale though obviously not ancient times there.
    My cousin has a saying, "I've learned more about history from Iron Maiden than from school.
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    Blind Guardian. Though many are fantasy themed, some are real epics.

    And Then There Was Silence, Troyan War themed, in example.

    http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...arch&plindex=0
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    Tenacious D - Classico

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    The following bands base their entire lyrical content on ancient (battle) themes:

    Adorned Brood
    adorned brood - erdenkraft 2002
    hiltia
    Aes Dana
    2001 - La Chasse Sauvage
    2005 - Formors
    Amon Amarth
    2006 - With Oden On Our Side
    Fate Of Norns
    Once Sent From The Golden Hall
    The Avenger
    The Crusher
    Versus The World
    Versus The World Bonus Disc
    Arkona (Rus)
    2005 - Vo Slavu Velikim
    Vo Slavu Velikim
    Vozrozhsenie
    Bathory
    1984 - Bathory
    1985 - The Return
    1987 - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
    1990 - Hammerheart
    1996 - Blood On Ice
    2002 - Nordland I
    2003 - Nordland II
    Cruachan
    1995 - tuatha na gael
    The Middle Kingdom
    Einherjer
    1994 - Aurora Borealis (demo)
    1996 - Dragons of the North
    1998 - Odin Owns Ye All
    2000 - Native Norwegian Art
    2003 - Blot
    Elfsword
    2002 - Altari Zabitih Bogov
    Ensiferum
    2001 - Ensiferum
    2004 - Iron
    Enslaved
    1993 - Vikingligr Veldi
    1994 - Frost
    1997 - Eld
    1998 - Blodhemn
    2000 - Mardraum - Beyond The Within
    2001 - Monumension
    2003 - Below The Lights
    2004 - Isa
    Falkenbach
    1996 - En Their Medh Riki Fara
    1998 - Magni Blandinn Ok Megintiri
    2003 - Ok Nefna Tysvar Ty
    2005 - Heralding
    Fenris
    Offerings To The Hunger
    Ordeal
    Finntroll
    Nattfodd
    Fluisterwoud
    1998 - Een Sinister Schouwspel (demo)
    2003 - Langs Galg En Rad
    Folkearth
    2006 - By the Sword of My Father
    Forefather
    Ours Is The Kingdom
    Hellebaard
    Strijdkracht
    Heol Telwen
    2003 - Mor Braz (demo)
    2005 - An Deiz Ruz
    Holy Blood
    AEOE_E
    Kraina Bez Wiatru
    Niechaj przemowiq runy
    Lumsk
    2003 - smund Fraegdegjevar
    2005 - Troll
    Manegarm
    Nordstjarnans Tidsalder
    Vredens Tid
    Moonsorrow
    1999 - TEEikuinen talvi
    2001 - Suden Uni
    2001 - Voimasta Ja Kunniasta
    2003 - Kivenkantaja
    2005 - VerisEeet
    2007 - V Havitetty
    Nachtfalke
    2001 - Hail Victory Teutonia
    2002 - Doomed To Die
    2003 - Land of Frost
    2005 - As The Wolves Dies
    Pagan Reign
    2001 - Ancient Warriors
    Perunwit
    Lzy i Krew
    Pogrom
    Mort Au Peuple
    Primordial
    2005 - The Gathering Wilderness
    Riger
    Des Blutes Stimme
    Rivendell
    2000 - The Ancient Glory
    Runic
    2006 - Liar Flags
    Skyclad
    Folkemon
    Skyforger
    thunderforge
    Tarihan
    Hohe Tannen
    Temenozor
    Folkstorm Of The Azure Nights
    Tharaphita
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    Thrudvangar
    2004 - ahnenthron
    Thundra
    Blood of your soul
    Thyrfing
    2002 - Vansinnesvisor
    Tuatha de Danann
    The delirium has just began
    Turisas
    turisas - battle metal
    Twin Obscenity
    Bloodstone
    For Blood, Honour and Soil
    Tyr
    2003 - Eric The Red
    2006 - Ragnarok
    Wapenspraak En Drinkgelag
    2003 - Onder De Banier Van Het Gewei (demo)
    Waylander
    1998 - Reawakening Pride Once Lost
    Windir
    1184
    Arntor
    Likferd
    Wintersun
    Wintersun
    XIV Dark Centuries
    den Ahnen zum Grusse

    Or at least there are the Folk/Viking Metal albums I've heard and they pertain to the theme you want.

    However, as far as epic ancient lyrical themes are concerned, the following bands are unsurpassed:

    Nile - Ancient Egyptian theme
    Manowar - Epic battle theme
    Bal-Sagoth - ancient battles, sword and sorcery
    Amon Amarth - Viking culture and war
    Immortal - The occult, witches, black magic


    Here's one of my favorite Nile songs:

    Unas Slayer Of The Gods

    Poureth Down Water From the Heavens
    Tremble the Stars
    Quake the Bones of Aker
    Those Beneath Take Flight When They See
    Unas Rising

    The Akh of Unas Is Behind Him
    The Conquerer Are Beneath His Feet
    His Gods Are In Him
    His Uraei Are on His Brow
    The Words of Unas Protect Him
    Unas This Bull of The Heavens
    ThatTrusteth With His Will

    Living On Utterances of Fire From
    The Lake Of Flame
    Unas That Devoureth Men and Liveth on The Gods

    Behold Amkebu Hath Snared Them for Unas
    Behold Tecber Tep F Hath Known Them and
    Driven Them Unto Unas
    Behold Her Tbertu Hath Bound Them
    Behold Khensu The Slaughterer of Lords
    Hath Cut Their Throats for Unas
    Behold Shesemu Hath Cut Them Up For Unas

    Unas Hath Ingested Their Spirits
    Hath Feasted On Their Immortality
    He Hath Consumed their Shadows
    Unas The Slayer of the Gods

    Unas The Sekhem Great
    The Sekhem of the Sekhemn
    Unas The Ashem Great
    The Ashem of the Ashemn
    Behold Orion
    Unas Riseth

    Unas Hath Taken Possession
    of the Hearts of the Gods
    Unas Feedeth on their Entrails
    He Hath gorged on their Unuttered Sacred Words
    He Hath Assimilated the Wisdom of the Gods
    His Existence is Everlasting

    Behold The Souls of the Gods are in Unas
    Their Spirits are In Unas
    The Flame of Unas in Their Bones
    Their Shadows are With their Forms
    Unas is Rising
    Hidden Hidden

    Here's a Manowar track and it's as cheesy as they come:


    Hail to England

    Raise sails head for the open sea
    With sails full of wind our hearts overflow with belief

    The quest for the grail to England we sail with our steel
    We bring what was lost if lives are the cost let it be

    Strong she stands
    Reaching her hand
    Brave and grand

    On English ground we were born
    Proudly we return to English shores

    Hail hail to England
    Hail hail hail

    We march from the hills down to London town
    Join raise your hands or hide when we ride for the crown
    The sign of the hammer and the black winds blow through the night
    Long was our wait our meeting with fate is tonight

    Strong she stands
    Reaching her hand
    Brave and grand

    On English ground we were born
    Proudly we return to English shores

    Hail hail to England
    Hail hail hail

    Standing tall
    One and all
    Light the hall

    Years have passed I've dreamed of this day
    As we raise our hands we proudly say

    Hail hail to England
    Hail hail hail



    The following is from a Bal-Sagoth booklet. The song has lyrics of it's own (which are epic on their own) but this is the supporting material:

    he Obsidian Crown Unbound
    (Episode IX: The Legions of the Imperium Storm the Cloud-Capped Palisades of Gul-Kothoth)


    Chapter 11: The Siege Begins

    And so the mighty and resplendent armies of the Imperium assembled before the towering cyclopean walls of ancient Gul-Kothoth. It was some time before the billowing dust cloud raised by the massed arrival of the vast imperial host settled, ultimately dissipating as the shadows of dusk descended. With nightfall, the imperial armys countless torches, braziers and cookfires illuminated the dark plain before the fortress like a coruscating sea, painting the stygian heavens the colour of flame. And the high summers night passed swiftly. At length, the dawn approached tentatively, and with the first signs of the newborn sun etching its promise upon the skies, the martial preparations commenced in earnest. A brief perfunctory exchange between the Imperial Herald and the fortifications Watch Commander held no surprises, and the Emperors banner was duly driven into the seared earth before Gul-Kothoth with a chilling finality.

    Vast siege engines and powerful ballistae were hauled inexorably into position, alongside a battery of katapelte and petrobolos. The one hundred thousand strong Imperial Frontier Army, having planted their regimented blazons into the arid soil, waited with a disciplined patience born of never having met defeat in pitched battle or siege, the dreaded Imperial War-Leopards straining noisily against their iron-link leashes to the rear of the cohorts of conscripts and auxiliaries. The pitiless Iron Phalanx and their Lord Militant Commander had assumed position at the head of the armys Alpha Wing, polished swords, spears and poll-axes reflecting the glow from the myriad torches and braziers which still burned about the Imperial Host. And behind them were drawn of the legendary Legion of the Ebon Tiger, Pride of the Emperor, the infantry and cavalry famed throughout the Great Northern Continent, personal regiment of the feared general Baalthus Vane. True to their martial reputation, the six thousand strong Legion were inscrutable in their jet black armour, their sable banner billowing in the chill breeze which skittered over the plain. And finally, astride his azure-shaffroned warhorse and surrounded by his elite guard, the silvern-armoured Emperor Koord himself studied the precipitous gates with a disdainful scruntiny. At the Emperors right hand was the renowned Swordmaster of Kyrmanku, an eastern bladesman of preternatural skill and the most revered and expensive mercenary in the Imperium. At his left, the infamous Ogre-Mage of the Black Lake brooded silently, swathed in a stygian cloak and fuliginous cowl and exuding an aura of implacable malevolence, which unnerved even the bravest of the Imperial troops. The Emperor had deemed the services of these two nefarious renegades pivotal to the execution of the Final Campaign, for they alone had knowledge of the mysterious arcane rite known as The Words Which Unfetter. And, behind their titanic time-worn palisades, the defenders of Gul-Kothoth beheld this awesome force ranged against them and shuddered, not with fear, but with an awful and night-cold anticipation.


    [The Emperor Koord:]

    General Vane, we begin the final siege of this campaign with the rising of the sun. The war which has raged for decades, shall finally be decided here, before the hoary walls of ageless Gul-Kothoth. The Imperiums last and most glorious victory is at hand. The procrastinating sybarites of the bureaucracy have been threatened and bribed into compliance over this venture. This more than anything else is why I have deigned to grace this final battle with my Imperial presence, even against the advice of the Grand Vizier and the sage counsel of the Seers.


    [Baalthus Vane:]

    You shall enjoy watching the Ebon Tiger bloody its claws, sire. Our victory here is assured.


    [The Emperor Koord:]

    You should not call your falcons before the hunt is done, my loyal servitor. Overconfidence is but one of the many foes a general must face upon the field of war. Today, the precepts and maxims of the Imperium shall be tested, and we shall see whether the velvet glove of diplomacy or the iron gauntlet of conquest has proved the more effective tool.


    [Baalthus Vane:]

    The days of the feudal suzerainties are long gone, my liege. The Imperial Military Council is the only entity fit to govern the dominions. The fall of Vyrgothia shall today render the truth of the Imperial Mandate self evident.


    [The Emperor Koord:]

    And yet I am vexed, for as you well know, the sorcerous emissary I dispatched to the Court of the Over-King has warned that the Vyrgothians may have recovered one of the artifacts comprising the fabled Trinity of Might; the legendary Obsidian Crown itself! In the hands of a skilled thaumaturgist, it is said that the Crown may be used as a weapon of unparalleled destructive potency.


    [Baalthus Vane:]

    The Shadow-Sword! The Obsidian Crown! The Ebon Sceptre! Feh! The power of the Trinity is but a myth! No antiquated trinket wielded by a religious fanatic will prevail against the Legion, sire. Our steel is proof against such diabolism! Behold! Gul-Tryarch has fallen, Gul-Azlaan has been given to the earth, Gul-Nomedes is naught but smouldering rubble, and soon we shall surge over the shattered remnants of Gul-Kothoths renowned walls! The Vyrgothian Alliance shall crumble when these gates are breached, and the Over-King himself shall stand before thee in shackles!


    [The Emperor Koord:]

    Indeed. At any rate, I have been blessed with foresight enough to prepare a contingency should the foe fulfill that fearful potential which has been weighing heavy on my mind. But now, the sun rises! Let it begin! Let the final chapter of our legend be written! Give the word! Raze Gul-Kothoth to the ground!


    [The Imperial War-Skalds:]

    An age of fire, sword and shield,
    The thunder of the battlefield,
    The clarions call, bring down the wall!
    May the Empires glory never fade,
    Righteous fury guide our blades,
    We march to war!


    [The Wizards of Vyrgothia:]

    Darkly bejeweled circlet of night, Crown of the Elder King,
    Unfettered at last the Trinity of Might, the Sceptre, the Sword and the Ring!



    Chapter 12: The Fall of Gul-Kothoth


    And so it was that a terrible and inestimable carnage was unleashed upon the field of battle. Colossal stones, firebrands and howling iron-tipped missiles rained pitilessly down upon the hero-hewn walls of Gul-Kothoth. Vast and serpentine cracks appeared in the ancient cyclopean edifice, and hundreds of warriors, both attackers and defenders, perished in the fray, either crushed beneath the ceaselessly assailed testudo, hammered to crimson pulp by the merciless storm of unforgiving stone, or burned to blackened husks by the nightmare onslaught of flaming quicklime and saltpetre. Scaling ladders raised and repulsed in turn, storms of razor tipped shafts exchanged by the combatants, isolated skirmishes raging upon the ramparts, men blade to blade and clarions bellowing embattled defiance. For seemingly innumerable hours the sanguineous battle raged, with no quarter asked nor given between the bitter ancestral foes. And the gates held firm. At length, the mightiest of the Empires iron-hooked battering rams, dubbed The Bringer of Woe, was brought to bear upon the besieged fortress, and, with the shadows of dusk lengthening upon the field of war, the centuries old Primary Gate of Gul-Kothoth was finally sundered amidst an earsplitting cacophony of shattering oak and iron louder than any storm-born thunderclap. With the rending of the mighty gate, and vast fragments of the ancient walls yielding, buckling and crashing to the blood-sodden earth, the Imperiums forces breached the defenses of Gul-Kothoth and surged into the Vyrgothian Alliances last and most renowned stronghold. And it was at that fate-steeped instant that an army of five score and ten, bearing the Obsidian Crown, arrived upon the field of battle.


    Chapter 13: The Wizards Do Battle


    [The Sorcerer:]

    By Klatrymadon and Zuranthus! They come! They come, wielding the Circlet of Night! The dire warning issued to me as I stood before Vyrgothias Master Wizard has been proved no idle boast! The citadels spells of containment breached the Black Crown is upon us!


    [The Emperor Koord:]

    It is as I have forseen! Be spry, my sorcerous lackey join the Iron Phalanx in entertaining these latecomers while I prepare a reception worthy of their audacity!


    [The Sorcerer:]

    By your command, o luminous Imperial majesty!


    At once, the far-feared and martially renowned Iron Phalanx wheeled to face the newcomers, and at the command of a decurion, a volley of armour-piercing shafts screamed skywards to rain down mercilessly upon the foe. And even as this transpired, the Emperors Prime Sorcerer, emissary of the Imperial Court and master of those arts which speak to man in narcotic dreams from the darkest and most silent places, summoned forth that black potency which lay entwined in stygian tendrils within his mind an ireful power born of they who writhed upon the shores of Pangaea before mans progenitors ever erected their lofty spires to the restless skies. And yet Vyrgothias Master Wizard, unrivalled Arch-Mage and adept of that lost Eastern order who journey beyond the boundaries of time and space upon those nebulous wings born of the sacred Azure Lotus, rose to meet this power which lapped at the periphery of his mind like a midnight tide, and stood firm against its insistent siren call. And upon that arid field of war, the sentinels of light and shadow spoke to each other in tongues dormant since the Third Moon fell burning from the heavens, and not sweet were the words they uttered. Until at last, with the armies poised to clash, and with dusk painting the sky a deep crimson exceeded in its vibrancy only by that bloody rubicund hue which stained the battlefield below it, the Emperors mage fell and the aeons-old might of the Obsidian Crown was finally brought to bear against they who had breached the walls of ancient Gul-Kothoth.


    [The Imperial War-Skalds:]

    Sundered the gate of the ancient fortress,
    Besieged! Now breached stand the walls.
    And lo, there an army of five score and ten,
    Behold! The Obsidian Crown.
    Embattled, the wizards, their weapons arcane,
    Untramelled, the circlet, the Prime-Sorcerer slain,
    The Crowns peerless power, the Emperors bane,
    Dark magicks and havoc, now red carnage reigns!


    Like the prow of a blood-hungry vessel of war rending the waves of a midnight sea, a luminescent blade of shrieking cerulean light lanced from the legendary black circlet locked tight within the gnarled hand of the Master Wizard, and clove mercilessly into the glorious ranks of the Imperium. And all who were touched by this ruinous arc of coruscating radiance knew no more Men and beasts reduced to blackened husks, charred shells of smouldering ash, lifeless effigies which toppled to the seared earth to be dissipated by the whispering breath of the wind. Again and again the ravaging radiance smote the ranks of the Empire, leaving a noisome charnel-pit of nightmare in its crackling wake. The forces of the Imperium were plunged into a howling vortex of disarray, and, faced with the unthinkable prospect of defeat, the unprecedented first routing of the Emperors glorious army began to become a grim reality. Yet for all the unparalleled carnage which had erupted about them, there was one regiment of Imperial troops for whom the taste of fear was bland compared to the sharp tang of rage which sat bitter upon their noble tongues


    [Baalthus Vane:]

    By all the gods of war! Stand fast, hounds of the Imperium! Tis true steel is no use against this ignoble magical trickery! But if our souls are bound for the Pit this day, well damn well take a few of these bastards with us! Onward, my Legion! Alpha formation, banners high! Glory to the Emperor! Into the foe! Show them the Tigers claws!


    [The Legion:]

    Never quarter, never mercy, never retreat! Praise the Emperor!


    [The Emperor Koord:]

    My sorcerous thrall has fallen, but he has bought us time enough to riposte. And general Vanes mettle may yet turn the tide of war back in our favour. Now, let the final act be played out! I call thee forth, Ogre Mage of the Black Lake! I call thee forth, Swordmaster of Kyrmanku! It is time! Now, I charge thee, for the glory of the Imperium Speak the Words Which Unfetter!

    And so, it began the two pivotal players in the Emperors plan, the two key figures in the Imperiums contingency, stepped forth to fill their most vital of roles in that grand theatre of carnage which now ran unchecked on the field of battle. The Ogre-Mage and the Swordmaster began to utter fearsome words in a tongue which was ancient ere the gleaming stars shifted upon the fathomless countenance of the distant heavens, words which in truth were not words, but rather a resonant key which would aspire to unlock a dire power which had reposed shackled since the fall of the legendary Shadow King himself, whose ebon circlets power they even now sought to thwart. The incantation they gave voice to in the midst of that sanguineous turmoil which engulfed them was not so much heard by those within earshot as perceived, sensed as a vague disturbance in the fabric of reality, as fuliginous ripples on the surface of a hitherto still and placid pool, growing ever larger and more far reaching; an unnerving and unnamable sense of change which insinuated itself into the mind of the listener and suggested with a cold and disturbing quasi-certainty that something of preternaturally ineffable magnitude was transpiring, as surely as a festering and gangrenous corpse would split to spill its noisome gore. And as that maddeningly implacable incantation reached its resounding climax, a momentary silence enshrouded the battlefield, swathing the vista of chaos in an aura of noiselessness more pure and untainted than the tranquility of the boundless and stygian void. It was as if time itself had halted for one immemorial moment. And it was in that oddly immeasurable instant that the dark and peerless power unfettered by those grim pseudo-words finally, ultimately, made itself known before the sundered gates of ancient Gul-Kothoth


    (To be continued in Episode X: The Shadow King Reborn)
    Death be not proud, though some have called thee
    Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so.

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    Default Re: Looking for rock/metal songs based on ancient theme

    oh yea, look up Man o War, alot of their songs have what youre looking of. megadeths elysian fields is a good song


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