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The Oxidising Angel

album by Blutengel

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 5, 2025
Entity authorityQ19894998 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Oxidising Angel is the first EP from German futurepop band Blutengel. It was released as a single CD. It featured a cover of Cry Little Sister the theme from the film The Lost Boys originally by Gerard McMann. On the original CD release, tracks 12 & 13 were hidden as part of track 11, The Oxidising Angel (Single Edit) which put the track time at 11:56. A music video was released for the title track, The Oxidising Angel.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “The Oxidising Angel” as album by Blutengel. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Oxidising, Angel and album.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current 79-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Oxidising, Angel and album providing the first useful test.
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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 Nov 5, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q19894998. 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 “The Oxidising Angel” 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.