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Shrapnel Records

American record label
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Shrapnel Records

Summary

Shrapnel Records is a record label[1]. It ranks in the top 9% of record_label entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (190 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Shrapnel Records is in the country of United States[3].
  • Shrapnel Records's instance of is recorded as record label[4].
  • Shrapnel Records's founder is recorded as Mike Varney[5].
  • Shrapnel Records's genre is heavy metal music[6].
  • Shrapnel Records's headquarters location is recorded as Novato[7].
  • 1980 marks the founding of Shrapnel Records[8].
  • Shrapnel Records's official website is recorded as http://shrapnelrecords.com/[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.

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  • Type: Original Production[10]

  • Country: US[11]

  • Began / founded: 1980[12]

  • Genre(s): heavy metal, metal, rock[13]

  • Community tags: heavy metal, metal, rock[14]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 873cd407-39a1-4876-a7bf-8a2b4d9e631a[15]

Body

Founding

Shrapnel Records's founder is recorded as Mike Varney[5]. 1980 marks the founding of it[8].

Operations

Shrapnel Records's headquarters location is recorded as Novato[7].

Why It Matters

Shrapnel Records ranks in the top 9% of record_label entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (190 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

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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.

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.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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