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- ↑ "Swedish Charts Portal". Swedishcharts.com. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
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- 1 2 3 4 Colin Larkin, ed. (1995). The Guinness Who's Who of Heavy Metal (Second ed.). Guinness Publishing. p. 255. ISBN 0-85112-656-1.
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