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      <section id="0" references="" xml:space="preserve">&lt;b&gt;Candlemass&lt;/b&gt; are a doom metal band from &lt;a href=&quot;/Sweden&quot; title=&quot;Sweden&quot;&gt;Sweden&lt;/a&gt;. One of their studio albums is titled &quot;The Door To Doom&quot;.&lt;sup id=&quot;cite_ref-1&quot; class=&quot;reference&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#cite_note-1&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;br /&gt; ==References== &lt;div class=&quot;references-small&quot;&gt;
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&lt;cite class=&quot;book&quot; style=&quot;font-style:normal&quot;&gt;Dom Lawson&amp;#32;(March 2019). &lt;i&gt;Candlemas The Door To Doom Napalm&lt;/i&gt;.&amp;#32;Metal Hammer.&lt;/cite&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Z3988&quot; title=&quot;ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;amp;rft.genre=book&amp;amp;rft.btitle=Candlemas+The+Door+To+Doom+Napalm&amp;amp;rft.title=Candlemas+The+Door+To+Doom+Napalm&amp;amp;rft.au=Dom+Lawson&amp;amp;rft.date=March+2019&amp;amp;rft.pub=Metal+Hammer&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt; Retrieved March 24, 2020&lt;/span&gt;
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