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Ancient Rites

Belgian black metal band
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Ancient Rites

Summary

Ancient Rites is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 7% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (62 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Ancient Rites's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Ancient Rites's genre is viking metal[4].
  • Ancient Rites's record label is recorded as Season of Mist[5].
  • Ancient Rites's record label is recorded as Wild Rags Records[6].
  • Ancient Rites's country of origin is recorded as Belgium[7].
  • 1989 marks the founding of Ancient Rites[8].
  • Ancient Rites's location of formation is recorded as Belgium[9].
  • Ancient Rites's official website is recorded as http://www.ancientrites.be[10].
  • Ancient Rites's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'Ancient Rites'}[11].
  • Ancient Rites's start of work period is recorded as 1988[12].

Product Details

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MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[13]

  • Country: BE[14]

  • Began / founded: 1988[15]

  • Genre(s): black metal[16]

  • Community tags: black metal[17]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 6492fc47-2ff0-4e1d-b4d0-692b3fa9810f[18]

Body

Founding

1989 marks the founding of Ancient Rites[8]. Its location of formation is recorded as Belgium[9].

Identity

Ancient Rites's official name is recorded as {'lang': 'mul', 'text': 'it'}[11].

Why It Matters

Ancient Rites ranks in the top 7% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (62 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[19] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[20]

Related Entities

Belgium

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . metal-archives.com. Retrieved . metal-archives.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . metal-archives.com. Retrieved . metal-archives.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [17] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [18] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [19] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [20] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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