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Anyone for Doomsday?

2001 studio album by Powerman 5000

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 27, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Anyone for Doomsday? is the third studio album by American rock band Powerman 5000. It was scheduled to be released on August 28, 2001, but was cancelled just weeks before its release. Originally, frontman Spider One claimed he was still writing songs for the album, and that the band's label, DreamWorks, was putting them under pressure to meet the album's deadline. Eventually, the album was scrapped, as Spider claimed it sounded too similar to their previous effort, Tonight the Stars Revolt!.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Anyone for Doomsday?” is 2001 studio album by Powerman 5000. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Anyone, Doomsday and studio, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Anyone, Doomsday and studio is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “2001 studio album by Powerman 5000” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 27, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2001.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Anyone for Doomsday?” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.