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Neaera (band)

German heavy metal band

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ679550 ↗
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Neaera is a German heavy metal band from Münster, formed in 2003 and disbanded in 2015. The band have released eight studio albums.

Musical style

Tobias Buck started Neaera to change the style he had played before with death metal band Malzan. The band was interested in the Swedish death metal genre, and created their own sound based on similar styles.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2003, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2003. The account is most persuasive where Neaera, band and German can be independently traced.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q679550. VIAF identifies the subject as 143872621. The Library of Congress control number is no2008106061. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2003 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Neaera (band)” 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.