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No Grave but the Sea

album by Alestorm

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ29587126 ↗
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No Grave But the Sea is the fifth studio album by Scottish heavy metal band Alestorm, released on 26 May 2017. It is the band's first album to feature guitarist Máté Bodor since the departure of Dani Evans in 2015.

Track listing

A bonus disc in limited and digital deluxe edition versions of the album consist of remixes of each track "for Dogs", replacing the vocals with autotuned barking.

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The public source identifies “No Grave but the Sea” as album by Alestorm. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Grave, album and Alestorm.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2017-05-26. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Grave, album and Alestorm providing the first useful test.
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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 Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q29587126. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2017 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “No Grave but the Sea” 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.