A record by death metal band Morbid Angel. Released in 1998, it is, at its core, death metal. However, the group demonstrates more imagination and pure force than almost any of its contemporaries. Not only is guitarist Trey Azagthoth's guitar monstrously powerful, but the rhythm section of drummer Pete Sandoval and new bassist/vocalist Steve Tucker manages to be simultaneously nimble and pummeling.
Also, the group has written some of their strongest songs to date — nothing here relies on pure riffage alone. The end result of the musical and writing vision is one hell of an album and possibly their best record to date.

Formulas Fatal to the Flesh by Morbid Angel was my first introduction to death metal back in 1998 when a friend gifted me the album after he found out the "satanic element" of the music.

Just for reference, here's a track listing

  • Heaving Earth
  • Prayer of Hatred
  • Bil Ur-Sag
  • Nothing Is Not
  • Chambers of Dis
  • Disturbance in the Great Slumber
  • Umulamahri
  • Hellspawn: The Rebirth
  • Covenant of Death
  • Hymn to a Gas Giant
  • Invocation of the Continual One
  • Ascent Through the Spheres
  • Hymnos Rituales de Guerra
  • Trooper

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