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Orphanage (band)

Dutch metal band

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ2328801 ↗
Source-derived summary

Orphanage were a death metal/gothic metal band from the Netherlands.

History

The band was formed in 1993 and released their first demos Morph (1993) and Druid (1994). Orphanage then recorded their first full album Oblivion, and one year later released their second album, By Time Alone. In 1997, the band released the EP At the Mountains of Madness, and worked three years on the album Inside, which was released in 2000. The last album Driven was released in 2004. On 18 October 2005 the band announced that they had disbanded.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Orphanage (band)” as dutch metal band. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1993, 1994, 1997, 2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993. The account is most persuasive where Orphanage, band and Dutch can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as dutch metal band. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Aug 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2328801. VIAF identifies the subject as 135659520. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993, 1994, 1997 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Orphanage (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.