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Kill Devil Hills sounds scarier than it is

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With a label that sounds like a satanic doom metal album, you would expect fire and brimstone. Instead, you get a completely standard coastal strip dotted with mundane chain stores and sunburned vacationers.

Kill Devil Hills sounds scarier than it is
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