Engine

Group · United States · formed 1999

American progressive metal band

progressive metal

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Recording span: 27 years
Release groups: 0
Timeline events: 3
Wiki language versions: 2

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Timeline

3 events◆ Formed 1+ Member joins 1− Member leaves 1

1990s
1. 1999 · Formed
  Formed in 1999
  source: wikidata
2. 1999 · Member joins
  Ray Alder joins the band
  lead vocals,original
  source: musicbrainz
2000s
1. 2002 · Member leaves
  Ray Alder leaves the band
  lead vocals,original
  source: musicbrainz

Discography & profile

Normalised profile

Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.

Normalised profile metrics with percentile rank
Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	2	7th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	0	0th
Studio albums	0	0th
Awards recorded	0	0th
Timeline events	3	73.3th
Recording span (years)	27	60th
Genres	1	56th

Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.

Discography (0 release groups)

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Stats & PK

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Engine metrics with percentile rank among published artists
Metric	Value	Percentile
Wikipedia language versions	2	7th
Spotify monthly listeners	—	no data
Release groups in DB	0	0th
Studio albums	0	0th
Awards recorded	0	0th
Timeline events	3	73.3th
Recording span (years)	27	60th
Genres	1	56th

Awards & honours

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Line-up

Band line-up and band memberships with dates
Name	From	To	Role
Ray Alder	1999	2002	lead vocals,original

Where this record comes from

portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ray_Alder_Headway.jpg
core—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5377665
genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5377665
seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_%28American_band%29
biography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engine_%28American_band%29

Why this artist is in the database

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Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: No machine-readable author provided. AlterVista~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims). · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q5377665 · MusicBrainz: 540822cd-b6f3-45a8-8f7f-c5098d36777d

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