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Watchtower

American progressive metal band
Organization musical_group Q91178
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Watchtower

Summary

Watchtower is a musical group[1]. Watchtower ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (350 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Watchtower's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Watchtower's genre is progressive metal[4].
  • Watchtower's genre is thrash metal[5].
  • Watchtower's record label is recorded as Noise Records[6].
  • Watchtower's country of origin is recorded as United States[7].
  • 1983 marks the founding of Watchtower[8].
  • Watchtower's location of formation is recorded as Austin[9].
  • Watchtower's topic has template is recorded as Template:Watchtower[10].
  • Watchtower's start of work period is recorded as 1982[11].

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[12]

  • Country: US[13]

  • Began / founded: 1982-05[14]

  • Genre(s): metal, progressive metal, technical thrash metal, thrash metal[15]

  • Community tags: metal, progressive metal, technical thrash metal, thrash metal[16]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 6d6b617a-f1ab-462a-8bb2-c934eda37668[17]

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Founding

1983 marks the founding of Watchtower[8]. Watchtower's location of formation is recorded as Austin[9].

Why It Matters

Watchtower ranks in the top 6% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (350 views/month).[2] Watchtower has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18]

Related Entities

San Ignacio United States

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.

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

  1. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [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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APA 4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph. (2026). Watchtower. Retrieved April 10, 2026, from https://4ort.xyz/entity/watchtower-q91178
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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 4w ago · ZI Jony · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facebook page id → Watchtower/258144101528
    Record label → —
    Country of origin → —
    Start of work period → +1982-00-00T00:00:00Z
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ [[Property:P4003]]: Watchtower/258144101528, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257116|batch #257116]]"
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