Raison d'être

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Raison d'être may refer to:

• Raison d'être (band), a Swedish dark-ambient-industrial-drone music project
• Raison D'être (album), an album by Australian jazz fusion guitarist Frank Gambale
• "Raison d'etre", a song by Asriel from the album Abyss
• "raison detre", a song by Japanese rock band Dir En Grey on the album Gauze
• "Raison d'etre", a song by Japanese rock band Nightmare used as opening theme of the anime Claymore
• "Raison d'être", a song used as the ending theme of the Chobits anime by Japanese singer and voice actress Rie Tanaka
• "Raison d'etre", a song by British rock band Buzzcocks from the album A Different Kind of Tension
• "Raison d'être～交差する宿命～", a song by Tomosuke Funaki under the alias Zektbach for a video game
• Raison d'être, an American Ale brewed by Dogfish Head