REVIEW OF THE WEEK

Dread Majesty are fucking awesome and anyone who tells you otherwise is a dirty, rotten liar who needs 100 lashes from the idiot whip, and secondly, this is opera of the highest goddamn order and is the kind of music I expect Beethoven would’ve made he’d access to electric guitars.
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