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The Raven and the Reaping

album by The Famine

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 16, 2023
Entity authorityQ7759508 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Raven and the Reaping is the first album by the death metal band The Famine. It was released on May 27, 2008 on Solid State Records. The song "Killing for Sport" was written in 10 minutes before being recorded.

Editorial summary

“The Raven and the Reaping” enters the record as album by The Famine. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Raven, Reaping and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Raven, Reaping and album.
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Why this record matters

“The Raven and the Reaping” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Raven, Reaping and album provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 May 16, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q7759508. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Raven and the Reaping” 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.