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Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Canadian post-rock band
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Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Summary

Godspeed You! Black Emperor is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,686 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor's genre is post-rock[4].
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor's record label is recorded as Constellation[5].
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor's discography is recorded as Godspeed You! Black Emperor discography[6].
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Commons category is recorded as Godspeed You! Black Emperor[7].
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor's country of origin is recorded as Canada[8].
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor comprises Efrim Menuck[9].
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor comprises Mauro Pezzente[10].
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor comprises Mike Moya[11].
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor comprises Sophie Trudeau[12].
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor comprises Thierry Amar[13].
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor comprises David Bryant[14].
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor comprises Karl Lemieux[15].
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor comprises Aidan Girt[16].
  • 1994 marks the founding of Godspeed You! Black Emperor[17].
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor's location of formation is recorded as Montreal[18].
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor's official website is recorded as https://brainwashed.com/godspeed/[19].
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Godspeed You! Black Emperor albums[20].
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor's topic has template is recorded as Template:Godspeed You! Black Emperor[21].
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor's start of work period is recorded as 1994[22].
  • Godspeed You! Black Emperor's social media followers is recorded as {'amount': '+33300'}[23].

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[24]

  • Country: CA[25]

  • Began / founded: 1994[26]

  • Genre(s): ambient, drone, experimental rock, instrumental, post-rock[27]

  • Community tags: ambient, canadian, chamber music, drone, experimental rock, instrumental, post-rock[28]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 3648db01-b29d-4ab9-835c-83f6a5068fe4[29]

Body

Founding

1994 marks the founding of Godspeed You! Black Emperor[17]. Its location of formation is recorded as Montreal[18].

Why It Matters

Godspeed You! Black Emperor ranks in the top 2% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,686 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

Related Entities

Canada

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

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

  1. [24] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [26] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [27] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [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.
  3. [31] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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