Ghoul – Noxious Concoctions EP (Tankcrimes)
How may I count the ways I have missed thee Ghoul? In severed heads, rotting limbs, with the howling laments of the undead or diseased and decaying vegetation purloined from freshly laid graves? None of…
How may I count the ways I have missed thee Ghoul? In severed heads, rotting limbs, with the howling laments of the undead or diseased and decaying vegetation purloined from freshly laid graves? None of…
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