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strafer

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Since we're listing and all. Some favorites.

Probably missed some. This is not all of them.

Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Children Of Bodom - Hatebreeder
Children Of Bodom - Hate Crew Deathroll
Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst
Cannibal Corpse - Gore Obsessed
Opeth - Still Life
Opeth - Blackwater Park
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
Arch Enemy - Anthems of Rebellion
Overkill - Horrorscope
Overkill - Ironbound
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Black Sabbath - Headless Cross
Amon Amarth - With Oden On Our Side
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the Thunder God
Carcass - Heartwork
In Flames - The Jester Race
In Flames - Lunar Strain
Dark Tranquility - Projector
Dark Tranquility - Damage Done
Dark Tranquility - The Gallery
Exhorder - The Law
AC/DC - Back In Black
AC/DC - The Razors Edge
Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Deep Purple - Fireball
Metal Church - The Dark
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven

I love music. Can't live without it.
 
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Vio-Lence

Banned
I'll stick to 1 album per band:

Winners:
Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time
Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side
Death - Human
Sepultura - Beneath the Remains
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill

honorable mentions:
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Dismember - Like an Ever Flowing Stream
Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade
Slayer - Hell Awaits + Haunting the Chapel EP
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Candlemass - Nightfall
 
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RDreamer

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Making all time favorites lists always reminds me that I get a bit distracted with new releases and there are a ton of old classics I haven't even listened to in a long time.
 
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Kaladin

Member
When we're talking albums, I had the same problem you guys had with bands, it's hard for me to do even just ten.

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
Opeth - Ghost Reveries
Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Blind Guardian - Nightfall In Middle Earth
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Down - NOLA
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Eyehategod - Dopesick

This is the list as of now, in no particular order and it would probably change as often as I change socks.

I'm a big fan of thrash, death, sludge and doom.

Honorable mention because I'm not sure if they count as metal or punk: Black Flag - Damaged.
 
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Lambda Pie

Banned
i'll try 1 per band. i've included samples since there's a handful of not really well known bands there:

Manowar - Into Glory Ride (SAMPLE)
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth (SAMPLE)
Wizard - Odin (SAMPLE)
While Heaven Wept - Vast Oceans Lachrymose (SAMPLE) - also my fav song of all time
Athem - The Extended Mind (SAMPLE) - my 2nd fav of all time
Stratovarius - Elements Pt. 1 (SAMPLE)
Pagan's Mind - Celestial Entrance (SAMPLE)
Rhapsody - Dawn of Victory (SAMPLE)
Sonata Arctica - Winterheart's Guild (SAMPLE)
Power Quest - Wings of Forever (SAMPLE)
Hibria - Defying the Rules (SAMPLE) - this album is a MUST
Highland Glory - From the Cradle to the Brave (SAMPLE) - super catchy PM
Lost Horizon - Flame to the Ground Beneath (SAMPLE)
Falconer - Northwind (SAMPLE)
Mystic Prophecy - Regressus (SAMPLE)
Pathfinder - Beyond the Space, Beyond the Time (SAMPLE) - one of the best PM albums of the last 10 years

and a shitload of others i'm forgetting right now.
 
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Fleet_of_Foot

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Picture was posted on Steven's Facebook yesterday. Pretty excited because I'm seeing Steven Wilson this Thursday, and Opeth (and Katatonia) the following Thursday.
 
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pablito

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Duji said:
Why don't we all just post our fav metal albums? Kinda like how a bunch of people on GAF-Hop posted their fav hip-hop albums.
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Hades Archer - For the Diabolical Ages
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
Demilich - Nespithe
Timeghoul - Tumultous Travelings/Panaramic Twilight (I usually listen to these EPs like it's one album)
Antichrist - Sacrament of Blood
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Sarcofago - INRI
Gorguts - Obscura
Diocletian - Doom Cult
Satan's Satyrs - Wild Beyond Belief! (if it counts)

none of my favorites are really cemented (aside from maybe the first two), but it's something like that
 
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Seanspeed

Banned
Darkest Hour - Undoing Ruin
Machine Head - Through the Ashes of Empires
Pantera - Far Beyond Driven
In Flames - Jester Race
The Black Dahlia Murder - Ritual
Tool - Aenima
August Burns Red - Messengers
Graveworm - Engraved in Black
As I Lay Dying - Awakened
Equilibrium - Sagas
 
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sgjackson

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evlcookie said:
The new The Ocean album. Nom nom nom.
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Oh yeah. Didn't get into Heliocentric and Anthropocentric much, but Pelagial is amazing.

Anyway, favorite albums off the top of my head, in no particular order:

Death - The Sound of Perseverance
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Baroness - Blue Record
Falconer - Falconer
Municipal Waste - Hazardous Mutation
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Acid King - Busse Woods
 
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HammerOfThor

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Okay, top 5 1 from each band, in no real order

Testament - Practice What You Preach
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Anthrax - Among the Living
Blind Guardian - Imaginations from the Other Side

Those are just the first 5 that came to my head. I figured they came to my head first because I really like them.
 
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Blue Calx

Member
In no order:

Dissection - The Somberlain
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Blood Lust
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Orphaned Land - Mabool: The Story of the Three Sons of Seven
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Ne Obliviscaris - Portal of I
Megadeth - Rust in Peace
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
Voivod - Killing Technology

Honorable Mentions:
Alice in Chains - Dirt (Not sure if it's considered a Metal album, if it is it would easily be in my top 10)
Acid Bath - When the Kite String Pops
Dio - Holy Diver
King Diamond - Abigail
Celtic Frost - Monotheist
Metal Church - Metal Church
etc.
 
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blahness

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Neurosis - A Sun That Never Sets
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Bathory - Blood Fire Death
Nasum - Human 2.0
Pig Destroyer - Terrifyer
Vektor - Black Future
 
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Quikies83

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Makes me smile to see so much Between the Buried and Me - Colors

Such a fucking phenomenal album. They played through the entire album masterfully when I saw them live.

I'll give my list later... maybe... pretty difficult to do.
 
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Kaladin

Member
You know, I've always found it pays to pay attention when Southern Lord signs new bands. I'm digging both of their new releases from Hessian and Agrimonia. And their next release is the highly anticipated Power Trip.

Southern Lord are killing it in 2013 with these newly signed bands.
 
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Switch Back 9

a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
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OH MY GOD ALL DAY!!

Album of 2013 for me, at least from what I've listened to on Youtube. Totally scratching an itch I didn't know I had.
 
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Kaladin

Member
Switch Back 9 said:
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OH MY GOD ALL DAY!!

Album of 2013 for me, at least from what I've listened to on Youtube. Totally scratching an itch I didn't know I had.[/QUOTE]

I've been digging this band too, they scratch the Sabbath itch really well.

Also listen to the new Orchid if you haven't.
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Switch Back 9

a lot of my threads involve me fucking up somehow. Perhaps I'm a moron?
Mr. Sandman said:
I've been digging this band too, they scratch the Sabbath itch really well.

Also listen to the new Orchid if you haven't.
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Totally grabbed that the other day. I mostly quit smoking pot last September, barring special occasions. With the weather this good and this stuff cranked on my headphones I think the time is right to get super high and just rock out.
 
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Flynn

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My current top ten albums:

Judas Priest - Stained Class
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Agalloch - In the Marrow of the Spirit
Melvins - Stoner Witch
Weakling - Dead as Dreams
Disfear - Live the Storm
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Venom - Welcome to Hell
 
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AstroZombie

Banned
In no particular order

Judas Priest - Unleashed in The East
Sabbat - History of a Time to Come
Vio-Lence - Eternal Nightmare
Blind Guardian - Tokyo Tales
Dark Angel - Darkness Descends
Helloween - Walls of Jericho
Running Wild - Death or Glory
Entombed - Left Hand Path
Dismember - Indecent & Obscene
Sepultura - Schizophrenia

Honorable Mentions

Jag Panzer - Ample Destruction
Kreator - Pleasure to Kill
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Exodus - Bonded By Blood
Fates Warning - The Spectre Within
 
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FYC

Banned
Hard choice, here goes nothing.

Anthrax - Among The Living
Metallica - ...And Justice For All
Slayer - Seasons In The Abyss
Megadeth - Rust In Peace
Death - Symbolic
Morbid Angel - Blessed Are The Sick
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Mastodon - Blood Mountain
Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
Children of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

Honorable Mentions

Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Death Angel - The Ultraviolence
Sepultura - Beneath The Remains
Dismember - Like An Everflowing Stream
Judas Priest - Painkiller
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Autopsy - Mental Funeral
Anacrusis - Manic Impressions
Dio - Holy Diver
Immolation - Close To A World Below

Kind of wanna make a guilty pleasures list but I reckon I'd be kicked out of MetalGAF :p
 
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OmegaDragon

Member
Might as well list my favourites:
1 Opeth - Blackwater Park
2 Emperor - Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk
3 Immortal - At the Heart of Winter http://youtu.be/7Maw0V6dSLE
4 Deathspell Omega - Si monumentum requires, circumspice http://youtu.be/ijGvXHUI07w
5 Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway http://youtu.be/sPhl1vGRyXQ
6 Shining - V - Halmstad http://youtu.be/Ka3YQdNhRbk
7 Agalloch - The Mantle
8 Nasum - Shift http://youtu.be/UV60o4lzvNY
9 The Monolith Deathcult - Trivmvirate http://youtu.be/0I0vRtuxE64
10 Carcass - Heartwork

Honourable mentions:
Negura Bunget - OM http://youtu.be/CnXcl3tYyDs
Electric Wizard - Dopethrone
!T.O.O.H.! - Order and Punishment http://youtu.be/CCUP8aNgpmo
Enslaved - Below the Lights
Nokturnal Mortum - Голос сталі http://youtu.be/T0FaqLa2Wdk
 
SpartanForce

SpartanForce

Member
1. Cynic - Focus
2. Cynic - Focus
3. Cynic - Focus
4. Cynic - Focus
5. Cynic - Focus
6. Cynic - Focus
7. Cynic - Focus
8. Cynic - Focus
9. Cynic - Focus
10. Cynic - Focus

Honourable mentions:

Cynic - Traced In Air
Cynic - Carbon-Based Anatomy
Cynic - The Portal Tapes
 
Diseased Yak

Diseased Yak

Gold Member
High-five to my Kadaver brothers! They are so bad ass.

Check out what I got in today, import vinyls for the win!

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rose-swirl vinyl

Other one is 180g black:
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If ever there was a band that belongs on vinyl, it's Kadaver.

The final one I got in today is this Cough/Windhand split vinyl, which is probably the best looking vinyl I own (cross posting some of these from the vinyl thread, hope that's ok):

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It also has the best cover art ever, I wish I could get a poster-sized print of it:

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Duji

Member
I made a C++ program that tallies up the results. I'll make picks worth 1 point and HMs worth 0.5. People who posted the same album more than once will only have it counted once obviously. People who couldn't help but post more than 10 different albums will have all of their results counted, why not. You guys can go back and edit your posts if you like. I'll post results when it looks like everyone is done posting here.
 
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Giant Robot

Member
SpartanForce said:
1. Cynic - Focus
2. Cynic - Focus
3. Cynic - Focus
4. Cynic - Focus
5. Cynic - Focus
6. Cynic - Focus
7. Cynic - Focus
8. Cynic - Focus
9. Cynic - Focus
10. Cynic - Focus

Honourable mentions:

Cynic - Traced In Air
Cynic - Carbon-Based Anatomy
Cynic - The Portal Tapes
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Don't forget their 1991 Demo either. Kinda wish they did an entire album in this era.
Cynic - Pleading For Preservation

Supposedly that song got replaced by How Could I? It's got similar song structure and outro.

Their 1990 Demo ain't too bad either, sounded like a more polished Gorguts, hah.
Cynic - Cruel Gentility.
 
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Watevaman

Member
I love the look of colored vinyl. I just wish I bought more records (or more that artists I liked had vinyl releases). I'm going to stop by a local record store sometime soon and see what they have in stock. Last time I was in there they had this limited edition Wyrd album but I ended up not getting it.
 
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Kaladin

Member
Diseased Yak said:
Cool, which? This import Electric Wizard tri-color I have looks nearly as good. Most of the others I have are solid colors.
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These are not metal releases, the one on the left is Ghost Ballads by Lonesome Wyatt and the Holy Spooks (a gothic folk/country act) and the one on the right is Heartsick by the same act. I really like the look of the Ghost Ballads record.

I've also got a really cool splatter color vinyl of Hank3's Straight to Hell album.

This one (not my pic):

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maxxpower

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Cobalt - Gin
Cobalt - Eater of Birds
Dark Tranquility - Character
Lurker of Chalice - Lurker of Chalice
Mercenary - 11 Dreams
Mercenary - Everblack
Dark Lunacy - The Diarist
Dark Lunacy - Forget Me Not
The Chasm - Farseeing the Paranormal Abysm
The Gathering - Home
 
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SoulPlaya

more money than God
I just want to share with you guys my personal album of the year, thus far.

It's Ancient VVisdom's "Deathlike". It's the first whole album that I've been able to listen to in a while. Just hit play and let it go. It's such a smart album that tells a convincing progression from beginning to end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eorXkAF9vMQ
 
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HammerOfThor

Member
Duji said:
I made a C++ program that tallies up the results. I'll make picks worth 1 point and HMs worth 0.5. People who posted the same album more than once will only have it counted once obviously. People who couldn't help but post more than 10 different albums will have all of their results counted, why not. You guys can go back and edit your posts if you like. I'll post results when it looks like everyone is done posting here.
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I'm digging how this thread has been going lately. We have a top band(but I really think we should do a list of bands with the whole point thing, too) and now top albums.

We should do top songs next :)


Also, I always predict stuf in the gaming thread that never comes true. At least I can predict stuff in the metal thread that winds up being true
okay, it wasnt really a 'prediction'
!

http://loudwire.com/newsted-confirmed-megadeth-2013-gigantour-trek/

I might go to this just to see Newsted. And any other band that isn't Device or Megadeth.

Edit: Fuck Hellyeah is there. I'll so go.
 
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Kaladin

Member
I'm listening to the new Howl album, so far it's good stuff.

Have you ever tried to describe a metal album cover to someone and realized how out there it can sound?

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There's a naked seer? holding a bleeding heart which has bled an ocean of blood. A wolf is drowning in the blood ocean while a Skeleton is rowing? his way through it. Oh and ravens vultures fly over a blackened sky with a blood moon.
 
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Secks4Food

Member
Mr. Sandman said:
I'm listening to the new Howl album, so far it's good stuff.

Have you ever tried to describe a metal album cover to someone and realized how out there it can sound?

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There's a naked seer? holding a bleeding heart which has bled an ocean of blood. A wolf is drowning in the blood ocean while a Skeleton is rowing? his way through it. Oh and ravens vultures fly over a blackened sky with a blood moon.
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Haha, that's why (many) metal album covers are awesome! That Howl album has a lot of cool, outlandish, provocative stuff going on with a beautiful aesthetic. Much better than describing your typical indie album cover: "ummm, so it's an intentionally amateurish drawing/excessively filtered photograph of some mundane object(s) that doesn't relate to the music, lyrics, band name, or album name, it's so ironic and hip!".
 
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Kaladin

Member
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A demon wearing a Pope hat watches over a massive (planet-wide?) city while a monster sized newborn with no eyes wearing a gold opera mask plays while wrapped in a golden blanket inside the city center as a blood red sun rises on a new day.
 
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Kaladin

Member
Is 2013 the year of throwback metal releases?

We've had:

Ghost - Infestissumam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQDaWoWwqdM "Ghuleh / Zombie Queen"

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats - Mind Control
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vF3XOVFqOI8 "Poison Apple"

Orchid - The Mouths Of Madness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQqnt67ai0g "The Mouths Of Madness"

Kadavar - Abra Kadavar
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2SdzgPj3_o "Doomsday Machine"

Plus we're getting new Sabbath and Deep Purple albums. It's too bad The Sword released their album last year, they're the masters of this.
 
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Ravager61

Member
Here are my top 10 metal albums. I'm more of a favorite album person than a favorite band person, if that makes sense, so I'm glad to see these lists.

In no order:
Deathspell Omega - Si Monumentum Requiris, Circumspice
Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness
Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
Sleep - Dopesmoker
Baroness - The Red Album
SunnO))) - Black One
Warning - Watching from a Distance
Blut Aus Nord - The Work Which Transforms God
Cobalt - Gin

I'm sure I'm forgetting something...
 
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faridmon

Member
I haven't listend to Metal as much as I would have recently but I will post my top Metal albums. It might be a bit too mainstream for you lot but here it goes: (In No Order)

Scum by Napalm Death
Master of Puppets by Metallica
Phantom AntiChrist by Kreator
Damage Done by Dark Tranquility
Fiction by Dark Tranquility
Projector by Dark Tranquility
Painkiller by Judas Priest
Vulgar by Dir En Grey
Silence of Northen Hell by Blood Stained Child
Aegis by Theatre of Tragedy
Velvet Darkness they Fear by Theatre of Tragedy
 
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