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Emo-old school-hardcore now has begun. Take Chain of Strength and make them listen to a lot of Epitaph stuff and they may have decided to call themselves Voice of Reason. Well you know, Chain of Strength was pretty emo. They were. You want to fight about how emo they were?
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