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Vulcain (band)

heavy metal band

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 13, 2023
Entity authorityQ3563803 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vulcain is a French hard rock and heavy metal band formed in 1981.

Comeback

At the end of 2009, the band gave hopes of reviving through an announcement on its Myspace page. The trio also announced a grand tour in 2010. It also opened for Motörhead for a number of shows in 2010. On 22 April 2013, Vulcain released a new album, V8, their first in 15 years since Stoppe La Machine.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Vulcain (band)” is heavy metal band. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Vulcain, band and heavy, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 2009, 2010, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1981. For this dossier, Vulcain, band and heavy is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “heavy metal band” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 13, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q3563803. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1981, 2009, 2010 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vulcain (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.