Description

2024 press on green vinyl with gatefold cover and lyric insert

Although the band hasn’t actually changed its modus operandi, Morbid Angel has been able to strengthen and deepen their death metal over the years. One listen to Formulas Fatal to the Flesh makes that clear. At its core, it’s death metal, but the group demonstrates more imagination and pure force than almost any of its contemporaries. Not only is Trey Azagthoth’s guitar monstrously powerful, but the rhythm section of drummer Pete Sandoval and new bassist/vocalist Stephen 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.

Track listing:
1. Heaving Earth
2. Prayer Of Hatred
3. Bil Ur-Sag
4. Nothing Is Not
5. Chambers Of Dis
6. Disturbance In The Great Slumber
7. Umulamahri
8. Hellspawn: The Rebirth
9. Covenant Of Death
10. Hymn To A Gas Giant
11. Invocation Of The Continual One
12. Ascent Through The Spheres
13. Hymnos Rituales De Guerra
14. Trooper