Gates Of Doom - The Galenus Plague (OFFICIAL VIDEO) - Epic Death/Black Metal

Watch Gates Of Doom video for “The Galenus Plague“ from the upcoming album “AQUILEIA MATER AETERNA“ out on 6th January 2021. CD, Merch and Digital Album available here: In these uncertain times we publish our first self-produced videoclip, filmed by Kilian Agath. When we finished filming in 2019 we certainly did not expect that a somewhat ironic twist of fate would make the themes of the clip so fitting these days. The song takes us back to the II century AD, at the end of the military campaign against the Parthians. The Romans, while victorious, brought back home a terrible illness that would ravage the Empire for twenty years. Historians call this the Antonian plague, or Galenus plague, from the greek medic that first studied the illness at the Emperors’ request. Aquileia too would be struck by it between 168 and 169 AD, but not even a plague and several sieges by some germanic tribes could subdu