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- Footnotes
- 1 2 Wagner 2010, p. 152.
- ↑ Wagner 2010, p. 153.
- ↑ "Obliveon Interview". The Metal Crypt. February 5, 2021. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
- ↑ "Obliveon - Considering Working On New Album". Metal Storm. February 10, 2021. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
- Works cited
- Wagner, Jeff (2010). Mean Deviation: Four Decades of Progressive Heavy Metal . Bazillion Points. ISBN 978-0-9796163-3-4.
- Rivadavia, Eduardo. "Obliveon Biography". Allmusic . Retrieved 10 July 2012.
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