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Lord Belial - Enter The Moonlight Gate



8.5 | 126 votes |
Release date: 1997
Style: Black metal

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01. Enter The Moonlight Gate
02. Unholy Spell Of Lilith
03. Path With Endless Horizons
04. Lamia
05. Black Winter Bloodbath
06. Forlorn In Silence
07. Belial - Northern Prince of Evil
08. Realm Of A Thousand Burning Souls (Pt 1)

Top 20 albums of 1997: 16

Additional info
Recorded & Mixed at Studio Fredman April 1996
Produced & Mixed by Niclas Andersson, Thomas Backelin & Fredrik Nordström
Front cover art by: Torbjörn Jörgensen

© No Fashion Rec [Cat.no: NFR020]
Metal Blade [USA] Death Records [Cat.no:3984-14160-2]
Mystic Production [Poland] MC [Cat.no:093]

Guest review by
F3ynman2000
Rating:
9.5
Let me tell you the tale of the Northern Prince of Evil, chosen for a crusade to tear down the very heavens. Listen and cower before the story of Lord Belial.

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published 18.02.2022 | Comments (15)

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18.05.2013 - 17:51
Rating: 10
Copernicus

Absolute perfection...so underrated!
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01.02.2015 - 02:55
Joe Zombie

Without a doubt one of the greatest melodic black metal albums to this day.
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02.04.2018 - 18:11
3rdWorld
China was a neat
^True that. This is really good.

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02.04.2018 - 18:20
Maco
Pvt Funderground
Album is rifftastic. Listen to it at least once.
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Crackhead Megadeth reigns supreme.
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23.07.2019 - 18:18
Rating: 9
nonZero

A fantastic underrated gem that stands up to some of the best in Black Metal.

I prefer this to anything from Immortal, Darkthrone, Mayhem or Behemoth.
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19.11.2019 - 18:26
Rating: 7
scrambles

This album has a lot of good songs on it. That is a fair amount of blasterbation, though...
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Trying to touch the Brilliant Darkness
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21.01.2020 - 19:52
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Tage Westerlund
IMO their best in blasphemous journey trough shades of darkness, if I pic this up and still love it even dislike rest of albums it means a lot.
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Life is to short for LOVE, there is many great things to do online !!!

Stormtroopers of Death - ''Speak English or Die''
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I better die, because I never will learn speek english, so I choose dieing
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18.03.2020 - 04:37
Rating: 8
Boxcar Willy
yr a kook
The last couple bars of the title track are so powerful. A great album start to finish, albeit just a bit corny IMO. I hate the "evil" laughter, but a very small gripe in an otherwise great meloblack album. An obvious inspiration for Frozen Shadows.
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14:22 - Marcel Hubregtse
I do your mum

DESTROY DRUM TRIGGERS
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15.10.2020 - 12:41
Rating: 9
nonZero

Written by scrambles on 19.11.2019 at 18:26

This album has a lot of good songs on it. That is a fair amount of blasterbation, though...

'blasterbation'
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25.08.2021 - 18:49
Rating: 10
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
One of the best black metal albums! The style reminds me of a mix between Storm of the Light's Bane and Nocturnal Silence. All of the songs are great - very evil and atmospheric. Charging riffs, demonic vocals, and relentless drums lead you on a dark crusade from wintry plains, through Hell, and to the Gates of Heaven. An evil masterpiece!
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19.09.2022 - 14:50
Rating: 8
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
First time I've managed listened to this album in full, and it's very impressive. Although this band is one of the lesser known in the 90's Swedish black metal scene, they are still just as important, and this album certainly puts them up there with the best of them. The vocals are truly powerful, and the shrieking really helps create such an eerie and sinister atmosphere, and the riffs are so melodic and yet also hypnotic.

As a whole the album is brilliant eventhough there are a few tracks weaker than others, the one's that stand out most for me are "Unholy Spell of Lilith", "Lamia", "Black Winter Blood-bath", and the epic closer "Realm of a Thousand Burning Souls".
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13.11.2023 - 00:09
Rating: 10
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
Revisiting this. Yep, still one of the best black metal albums of history. Changed my vote from 9 to 10.
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