Gates of Fire (album)

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Gates of Fire

Studio album by

Manilla Road

Released

October 12, 2005

Recorded

Midgard Sounds Labs, Wichita, Kansas

Genre

Heavy metal

Length

72:12

Label

Battle Cry

Producer

Mark Shelton

Manilla Road chronology

Mark of the Beast
(2002)

Gates of Fire
(2005)

Voyager
(2008)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
The Metal Observer	(9/10)

Gates of Fire is an album released by American heavy metal band Manilla Road on October 12, 2005.^[1] It is divided into a trilogy: "The Frost's Giant Daughter", inspired by the story of the same name written by Robert E. Howard; "Out of the Ashes", based on Virgil's Aeneid; and "Gates of Fire", inspired by the stand of King Leonidas and his Spartans at the battle of Thermopylae.

Track listing

All songs written by Mark Shelton.

The Frost Giant's Daughter

"Riddle of Steel" – 7:08
"Behind the Veil" – 3:43
"When Giants Fall" – 5:28

Out of the Ashes

"The Fall of Iliam" – 14:47
"Imperious Rise" – 6:08
"Rome" – 11:02

Gates of Fire

"Stand of the Spartans" – 5:36
"Betrayal" – 8:26
"Epitaph to the King" – 9:54

Credits

Mark Shelton – acoustic and electric guitars, vocals
Cory Christner – drums
Harvey Patrick – bass guitar
Bryan Patrick – vocals

References

^ ^a ^b Manilla Road - Gates of Fire Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic, retrieved August 14, 2022

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Studio albums	Invasion (1980) Metal (1982) Crystal Logic (1983) Open the Gates (1985) The Deluge (1986) Mystification (1987) Out of the Abyss (1988) The Courts of Chaos (1990) Atlantis Rising (2001) Spiral Castle (2002) Mark of the Beast (2002) Gates of Fire (2005) Voyager (2008) Playground of the Damned (2011) Mysterium (2013) The Blessed Curse (2015)
Compilations	Dreams of Eschaton (2016)
Related albums	The Circus Maximus (1992)

Virgil's Aeneid (19 BC)

Characters

Deities	Alecto Crinisus Cupid Hecate Hymen Juno Jupiter Mars Mercury Saturn Tiberinus Venus
Trojans	Achates Aeneads Aeneas Aeolus Aletes Anchises Andromache Antiphates Ascanius Caieta Capys Cassandra Clonius Corynaeus Creusa Dardanus Dares Phrygius Deiphobus Elymus Entellus Euryalus Gyas Helenus Hippocoon Ilioneus Laocoön Mimas Misenus Mnestheus Nisus Ornytus Palinurus Pandarus Panthous Paris Polites Priam Ripheus Sergestus Theano Thymoetes Ucalegon
Phoenicians	Acerbas Anna Perenna Belus Dido Mattan I Pygmalion of Tyre
Others	Acestes Achaemenides Actor Ajax the Lesser Amata Androgeus Automedon Aventinus Butes Camilla Catillus Clytius Cydon Cydonians Diomedes Erulus Evander of Pallene Halaesus Iarbas Juturna Latinus Lausus Lavinia Macar Messapus Metabus Mezentius Neoptolemus Pallas Picus Rutuli Salius Sinon Turnus Ufens Umbro Venulus

Film and TV

The Avenger (1962)
Eneide (1971–2)
Eneyida (1991)

Literature

Historia Brittonum (c. 828 history of Britain)
Roman d'Enéas (1160 poem)
Eneas romance (ca. 1170-1188)
Dido, Queen of Carthage (c. 1593 play)
Virgile travesti (1648)
Amelia (1751 novel)
The Dunciad (1729 poem)
Eneida (1798 mock epic)
Lavinia (2008 novel)

Opera

Didone (1641 Cavalli)
Achille et Polyxène (1687 Lully/Collasse)
Dido and Aeneas (1688 Purcell)
Didon (1693 Desmarets)
Didone abbandonata (1724 libretto Metastasio)
Didone abbandonata (1724 Sarro)
Didone abbandonata (1724 Albinoni)
Didone abbandonata (1726 Vinci)
Didone abbandonata (1762 Sarti)
Didon (1783 Piccinni)
Dido, Queen of Carthage (1792 Storace)
Les Troyens (1858 Berlioz)

Manuscripts

Phrases

Art

Laocoön and His Sons (25 BC)
Aeneas, Anchises, and Ascanius (1619)
The Dream of Aeneas (1660–65)
Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia (1689)
Dido building Carthage (1815)
The Golden Bough (1834)

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