Once Upon An Atrocity

Album: Cruelty And The Beast (1998)
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Songfacts®:

  • Running to 1 minute 43 seconds, this group composition is the grandiose opening track to Cruelty And The Beast. Beginning with what might just pass for a choir of monks in Gregorian chant, it soon explodes, segueing into "Thirteen Autumns And A Widow."

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