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- ↑ Billboard.com - Discography - Vola
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- ↑ @TOWER.JP - Vola and the Oriental Machine 1st Full Alum！ (in Japanese)
- ↑ "Vola and the Oriental Machine announce new guitarist". Musicwhore.org. Retrieved 2009-10-28.
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