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Rasputina

Rasputina is a "" ensemble composed of singer/cellist Melora Creager, and various, frequently changing band members. The current lineup includes Creager (cello), Daniel Dejesus (cello), and Dawn Miceli (drums). Founded by Creager in 1992, they have long held true to their mission of enlightening the common man as to the power and versatility of the mighty cello. Historically influenced, and constantly costumed, Rasputina keeps a small legion of incredibly passionate admirers enthralled with their earnest musicianship.

Read more about Rasputina on Last.fm.

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Sleepless

There has been more than one artist to use the name Sleepless. 1.Sleepless is a Dark Progressive Metal band from Israel, they released Winds Blow Higher in 2001 and now they are split-up. 2.Sleepless is from Tucson, Arizona, formed in 2009. 3.A hungarian deathcore band from Székesfehérvár. 4.Sleepless were originally known under the German name Die Schlaflosen. Formed in 1982 when guitarist Arch Stanton met up with Singers Cloudia Wintermute & Lucretia, and bassist Roland Hammerl. They immediatly found they had an amazing chemistry together and improvasation was the key to their sound.

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Ghoul

There are multiple artists with this name: 1) Ghoul is a thrash metal band formed in United States of America (Oakland, California) in 2001. Official Website
Official Myspace 2) Ghoul was a legendary punk/hardcore band from Japan. Please change your tags to GHOUL for this specific band. Ghoul formed in the mid 80's and were active until their front man Masami formed another band called Sqwad in early 90s, and soon after that he died.

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Militia

Militia is the name of at least 7 artists.
1) Militia is a Belgian industrial percussion band. It was founded in 1989 by the multi-instrumentalist Frank Gorissen and wind instrument player Jo Billen and now 6 musicians are involved. The band is known for its use of self made percussion and wind instruments and the scrap material they transform into musical instruments. The band's music is often inspired by the anarchic and atheist social views and their concirn about our natural environment, themes that can be found in most of their lyrics and statements.

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HIM

There are multiple artists with this name 1) HIM, a love metal band from Finland.
2) HiM, a solo project put together in 1995 by Doug Scharin (drummer for June of 44, Rex, and Codeine).
3) HIM, acronym for "Hiromasa Ijichi Melodies," a Japanese group. 1) Formed in 1991 by vocalist Ville Valo, guitarist Mikko Lindström (Linde), and bassist Mikko Paananen(Mige). Today the band consists of the previously named as well as a drummer Mika Karppinen(Gas) and a keyboardist Janne Puurtinen(Burton).

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Abigail's Mercy

Gothic band from UK. Released only album 2005 - Salvation .
Official site: http://www.abigailsmercy.co.uk/ They were a few releases on download and on their website in 2009 it was announced the New Album available as Download would be released to cd! However this hasn't happened and their hasn't been any recent news or information on the bands future. The band are certainly on a hiatus if not disbanded!

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Suspiria

Suspiria may refer to:
1) A darkwave/gothic rock band from United Kingdom (1993-1998).
2) A post-hardcore band from Japan.
3) A trash metal/death metal band from France (Split-up).
4) A death metal/doom metal band from Germany (Split-up).
5) A death metal band from Illinois, United States (Split-up).
6) An alternative metal band from Vicenza, Italy (2003-present).
7) Mistagged Susperia.
8) A psytrance project from Lemesos, Cyprus.

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The Dead Poets

The Dead poets were originally born in 2003 under the name “the Dead Poets Society” by the hands of Chaves
and Zé Santos. During that same year, the band played several concerts in Music stores and art centres.
In 2004, and despite great reviews, the band decides to stop due to personal incompatibilities, giving birth to several other side projects.
However, in the beginning of 2005, Zé Santos and Chaves decide to bring the band back to life,

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Elements

There are at least four different artists using the name Elements: (1) ELEMENTS is a Finnish metal band formed somewhere around 2001. However, Jarmo and Joni began playing together already back in 1996, when they just were about 9-10 years old. The boys' inspiration for music started in the legendary manner of listening to Metallica. In 2008 Elements released single, "One in the dark" and shooted a music video for the song in late 2008. The video has seen in Voice TV Finland and it's currently competiting in Voice TV's Garage Countdown competition.

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