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Immortal (For Today album)

album by For Today

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ17013267 ↗
Source-derived summary

Immortal is the fourth studio album by American Christian metalcore band For Today, released on May 29, 2012 through Razor & Tie Records.

The album debuted at No. 15 on the Billboard 200, with 14,700 copies sold in the first week, as well as No. 1 on both the Hard Rock Albums and the Top Christian Albums charts. It makes this the best sales and chart performance for the band.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Immortal (For Today album)” is album by For Today. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Immortal, Today and album, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2012-05-29. For this dossier, Immortal, Today and album is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “album by For Today” 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

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17013267. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2012.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. 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 “Immortal (For Today album)” 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.