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Ancient

Norwegian black metal band
Organization musical_group Q489320
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Ancient

Summary

Ancient is a musical group[1]. Ancient ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (141 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Ancient's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Ancient's genre is black metal[4].
  • Ancient's record label is recorded as Metal Blade Records[5].
  • Ancient's Commons category is recorded as Ancient (band)[6].
  • Ancient's country of origin is recorded as Norway[7].
  • 1992 marks the founding of Ancient[8].
  • Ancient's start of work period is recorded as 1992[9].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[10]

  • Country: NO[11]

  • Began / founded: 1992[12]

  • Genre(s): black metal[13]

  • Community tags: black metal, norwegian[14]

  • MusicBrainz ID: e6ea52d9-cdc0-475c-b029-0d13dc0f64d6[15]

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Founding

1992 marks the founding of Ancient[8].

Why It Matters

Ancient ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (141 views/month).[2] Ancient has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16]

Related Entities

Metal Blade Records Norway

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [10] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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