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Infernäl Mäjesty

Canadian thrash metal band

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ1384908
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Infernäl Mäjesty is a Canadian thrash metal band formed in 1986 and based in Vancouver. They are known for their debut album, None Shall Defy, released in 1987. The 1998 re-issue by Displeased Records inspired them to reunite and record a new album, followed by a European tour. They remain active.

In 2018, they announced production and cover art for the forthcoming album Secrets, along with a single from the record due in 2019. It remains unreleased.

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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—1986, 1987, 1998, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986. For this dossier, Infernäl, Mäjesty and Canadian is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1384908. VIAF identifies the subject as 133624478. The Library of Congress control number is no2016134247. 4 of 4 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986, 1987, 1998 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from Infernäl Mäjesty” 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.