Morbid Angel - Formulas Fatal To The Flesh

Excellent album considering that vincent is missing. tucker is a great replacement!

bad point the awfull instrumentals.

This is the best album of the Steve Tucker Period, and a great Morbid Angel album in its own right, This and Gateways are at least on par with Domination to me.

I really like this album and agree with it being the best of the Steve Tucker era. I like it better than Blessed and Domination personally.

Its overlong and contains many unnecessary deviations. Some of the songs seem like they were thrown together without too much thought behind them. Other than these flaws some of this album is still great to listen to.

This album has more organic production than Domination, akin to that of Covenant, but most of the songs are aimless and just wander around trying for brutality. Don't get me wrong, still a fun album, but it's got its flaws. Most of the instrumentals are kinda crap, too, though "Hymn to a Gas Giant" makes for a good prelude to "Invocation of the Continual One".

"Nothing is Not" has a great opening riff and is overall a great track, though.

Written by deadone on 13.05.2014 at 01:41

Totally agree with the above.

IMO FFttF was the start of Morbid Angel's decline.

Probably, but I still think that Gateways to Annihilation was a step up from FFttF. Sure, it had the overproduced sound of Domination, but it beats out FFttF in being more cohesive, and it beats out Domination by hitting a little harder. After that, Heretic was kinda ass, with only a couple good tracks and a bunch of stupid crap. We all know how IDI turned out, so I won't really talk about that one.

Written by deadone on 13.05.2014 at 02:11


I agree that Gateways was better than FFttF in terms of the music.

I actually love Domination but found FFttF had some really awful "songs".

I'll need to give Gateways another try. My brother swears by that album.

And yes Heretic was ass. From memory it was like a shittier version of FFtF. I think I liked one song on that one.

Domination is great, too, to be sure. I just like Gateways slightly more. And I think the only track I really like on Heretic is the opening track, which is why I've never bothered to buy that album.

Written by @gent_-_orange on 19.05.2012 at 01:10

This is the best album of the Steve Tucker Period

I remember Gateways being better than this. Gonna have to re listen.

It could have been better than Domination but the last minutes are damn worthless.

Wow Nothing Is Not sounds like a Gojira song sooooo much! Morbid Angel must have been a great inspiration for them.

Very poorly recorded... it seems like they went with the first takes.

Written by Ansercanagicus on 21.01.2020 at 00:13

Wow Nothing Is Not sounds like a Gojira song sooooo much! Morbid Angel must have been a great inspiration for them.

I believe I've seen Gojira somewhere talking about how big of an influence Morbid Angel has had on their music.

This is the best MA album, I will die on this hill

Written by Roman Doez on 28.09.2022 at 22:05
This is the best MA album, I will die on this hill

I think my favorite is Domination which shares a lot of sounds with this one. So I see where you're coming from.

It's Gateways To Annihilation for me. Tucker Carlson slays on that album. This one is good too, but not as refined. Amazing cover art though.

Written by Boxcar Willy on 29.09.2022 at 16:58

It's Gateways To Annihilation for me. Tucker Carlson slays on that album. This one is good too, but not as refined. Amazing cover art though.

Tucker Carlson?

Written by Zap on 29.09.2022 at 17:29

Tucker Carlson?

LOL That's gotta be one of my top mis-comments on the site

Written by Boxcar Willy on 29.09.2022 at 17:33

LOL That's gotta be one of my top mis-comments on the site

Can't recall a better one. Fronting a death metal band would probably be a better use of Tucker Carlson's time than whatever the tuck it is he does now.

WTF??? Why is this rated so low?

One year later I like this album even more, Invocation Of The Continual One might be the best death metal song ever written

This album cover is soooooo good.

Would have been a 10 if the album simply ended with Invocation of the Continual One instead of dragging on for another three pointless outro wank tracks.

I found this album to be slightly disappointing tbh, it was far from the standard of their first 3 albums imo. Sure, it had some impressive riffs and a few good moments in general, but it could've easily been cut a few minutes shorter, there was one two many boring parts and I wasn't into the short instrumentals much either.