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War of Kings (album)

2015 studio album by Europe

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 8, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

War of Kings is the tenth studio album by the Swedish rock band Europe. It was released on 2 March 2015 by UDR Records.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “War of Kings (album)” is 2015 studio album by Europe. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kings, album and studio, not as a finished interpretation.

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—2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Kings, album and studio is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “2015 studio album by Europe” 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

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 Jun 8, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2015.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. 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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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “War of Kings (album)”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow War of Kings (album) primary sources, War of Kings (album) archive and Kings 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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  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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This entry incorporates text from “War of Kings (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.