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Smile Pretty for the Devil

2008 single by Children of Bodom

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ7544643 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Smile Pretty for the Devil" is a single from the album Blooddrunk by Finnish melodic death metal band Children of Bodom. A video was shot for this song.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Smile Pretty for the Devil” as 2008 single by Children of Bodom. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Smile, Pretty and Devil.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 28-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008-11-14. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Smile, Pretty and Devil providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Smile Pretty for the Devil”, the useful work is to connect “2008 single by Children of Bodom” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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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 Mar 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7544643. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Smile Pretty for the Devil” 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.