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TIL that Waldo, the vocalist of the US death metal band "Hatebeak", is a gray parrot, who learned to make grim, deathly squawks to accompany the music of his human bandmates. Waldo does not travel to play concerts. His most recent full record was "The Number of the Beak".

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