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Headless Cross

1989 studio album by Black Sabbath
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Headless Cross

Summary

Headless Cross is an album[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,263 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Headless Cross's instance of is recorded as album[3].
  • Headless Cross's genre is heavy metal music[4].
  • Headless Cross was produced by Tony Iommi[5].
  • Among the performers on Headless Cross was Black Sabbath[6].
  • Headless Cross's record label is recorded as I.R.S. Records[7].
  • Headless Cross is part of Black Sabbath's albums in chronological order[8].
  • Headless Cross's language of work or name is recorded as English[9].
  • Headless Cross was released on April 1, 1989[10].
  • Headless Cross's duration is recorded as {'unit': 'Q11574', 'amount': '+2424'}[11].
  • Headless Cross's form of creative work is recorded as studio album[12].

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

  • Release type: Album[13]

  • First release date: 1989-06-07[14]

  • Genre(s): blues rock, classic rock, epic doom metal, hard rock, heavy metal, metal, rock[15]

  • Community tags: blues rock, classic rock, epic doom metal, hard rock, heavy metal, metal, rock[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 230fa643-0fdf-34a4-b6e4-3cf8563dcf11[17]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Among the performers on Headless Cross was Black Sabbath[6]. It was produced by Tony Iommi[5].

Publication

Headless Cross was released on April 1, 1989[10]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[9]. Its genre is heavy metal music[4]. It is part of Black Sabbath's albums in chronological order[8].

Why It Matters

Headless Cross ranks in the top 1% of album entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,263 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18]

Related Entities

Tony Iommi

References

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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.
  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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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