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The Spirit of Ukko

2005 studio album by Kiuas

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 23, 2024
Entity authorityQ3989435 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Spirit of Ukko is the debut studio album by the Finnish heavy metal band Kiuas, released on 4 May 2005 by Spinefarm Records. "Ukko" in Finnish mythology is the greatest of the pagan gods and is a Finnish male name. The Japanese version features a bonus song eponymously titled from the Winter in June EP. The third quarter piece of the song "Across the Snows" is sung in Finnish.

Track listing

All music and lyrics by Mikko Salovaara, except "No More Sleep for Me" by Ilja Jalkanen.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “The Spirit of Ukko” as 2005 studio album by Kiuas. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005. The account is most persuasive where Spirit, Ukko and studio can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as 2005 studio album by Kiuas. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Jan 23, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3989435. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005.

Critical limits

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How to read it

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “The Spirit of Ukko”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow The Spirit of Ukko primary sources, The Spirit of Ukko archive and Spirit research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “The Spirit of Ukko” 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.