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Viridian (Temperance album)

album by Temperance

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ140733857 ↗
Source-derived summary

Viridian is the fifth studio album by Italian power metal band Temperance. It was released on 24 January 2020 by Napalm Records, the band's first for the label. The digital edition includes a bonus track, "Lost in the Christmas Dream", originally released as a single on 8 December 2019.

Editorial summary

“Viridian (Temperance album)” enters the record as album by Temperance. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Viridian, Temperance and album can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—2020, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2020-01-24. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Viridian, Temperance and album.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Viridian (Temperance album)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Viridian, Temperance 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 Jul 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q140733857. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020 and 2019.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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  • Identifying works and editions
  • Tracing reception history
  • Finding collection records
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Three-step research path

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  2. Expand the search: follow Viridian (Temperance album) primary sources, Viridian (Temperance album) archive and Viridian 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.

Questions for further research

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  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “Viridian (Temperance album)” 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.