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Bart Smits (born 17 March 1972 in Oss) is a Dutch heavy metal singer. He was the original singer in The Gathering, and he sang on their first album Always... , released in 1992. The following year he left them to form Wish. After one full-length album and four EPs, the band split up in 2003. Smits' latest work is Wish's Ground Zero Heaven , released in 2000.
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This is a timeline documenting the events of heavy metal in the year 1992.
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