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Forefather

band that plays black metal
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Forefather

Summary

Forefather is a musical group[1]. Forefather ranks in the top 7% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (33 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Forefather's instance of is recorded as musical group[3].
  • Forefather's genre is black metal[4].
  • Forefather's record label is recorded as Hammerheart Records[5].
  • Forefather's country of origin is recorded as United Kingdom[6].
  • 1997 marks the founding of Forefather[7].
  • Forefather's location of formation is recorded as Surrey[8].
  • Forefather's official website is recorded as http://www.forefather.net/[9].
  • Forefather's start of work period is recorded as 1997[10].

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[11]

  • Country: GB[12]

  • Began / founded: 1997[13]

  • Genre(s): folk metal, melodic black metal, viking metal[14]

  • Community tags: folk metal, melodic black metal, viking metal[15]

  • MusicBrainz ID: cb1f212a-a876-4e66-8e5d-7345f7262eac[16]

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Founding

1997 marks the founding of Forefather[7]. Forefather's location of formation is recorded as Surrey[8].

Why It Matters

Forefather ranks in the top 7% of musical_group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (33 views/month).[2] Forefather has Wikipedia articles in 7 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17]

Related Entities

United Kingdom

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.

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

  1. [11] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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