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Bolt Thrower

English death metal band
Organization musical_group Q662463
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Bolt Thrower

Summary

Bolt Thrower is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,851 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Bolt Thrower's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Bolt Thrower's genre is death metal[4].
  • Bolt Thrower's genre is grindcore[5].
  • Bolt Thrower's record label is recorded as Vinyl Solution[6].
  • Bolt Thrower's record label is recorded as Earache Records[7].
  • Bolt Thrower's record label is recorded as Metal Blade Records[8].
  • Bolt Thrower's Commons category is recorded as Bolt Thrower[9].
  • Bolt Thrower's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[10].
  • Bolt Thrower comprises Jo Bench[11].
  • Bolt Thrower comprises Barry Thomson[12].
  • Bolt Thrower comprises Gavin Ward[13].
  • Bolt Thrower comprises Karl Willetts[14].
  • Bolt Thrower comprises Martin Kearns[15].
  • 1986 marks the founding of Bolt Thrower[16].
  • Bolt Thrower's location of formation is recorded as Coventry[17].
  • Bolt Thrower's official website is recorded as http://www.boltthrower.com[18].
  • Bolt Thrower's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Bolt Thrower[19].
  • Bolt Thrower's topic has template is recorded as Template:Bolt Thrower[20].
  • Bolt Thrower's start of work period is recorded as 1986[21].
  • Bolt Thrower's member category is recorded as Category:Bolt Thrower members[22].

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[23]

  • Country: GB[24]

  • Began / founded: 1986[25]

  • Ended / dissolved: 2016[26]

  • Genre(s): death metal, death-doom metal, grindcore, metal, old school death metal[27]

  • Community tags: death metal, death-doom metal, grindcore, metal, old school death metal[28]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 68bd8072-0412-44b1-81dd-807aa6c1918c[29]

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Founding

1986 marks the founding of Bolt Thrower[16]. Its location of formation is recorded as Coventry[17].

Why It Matters

Bolt Thrower ranks in the top 4% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,851 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30]

Related Entities

Coventry Earache Records Metal Blade Records United Kingdom

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] ↑ . Metal Evolution. wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [23] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [26] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [27] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  7. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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