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Ruin (American band)

American metal band

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ30603779 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ruin (often stylized as RUIN) is an American thrash metal band from Portland, Maine, formed in 2005. Ruin's latest album Rite of Passage debuted in October 2014.

Editorial summary

“Ruin (American band)” enters the record as american metal band. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ruin, American and band can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ruin, American and band.
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“Ruin (American band)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ruin, American and band provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Nov 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q30603779. VIAF identifies the subject as 287219277. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ruin (American 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.