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I don't believe in, and I am a devout non-believer, in playing new songs live if the subjected and pathetic crowd has not heard them before because I consider it like mass psychosis and genocidal.

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Peter Steele
Age: 48 †
Born: 1962
Born: January 4
Died: 2010
Died: April 14
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