Formulas Fatal to the Flesh

Formulas Fatal to the Flesh
Studio album by Morbid Angel
Released	February 24, 1998
Recorded	1997, Morrisound Recording
Genre	Death metal
Length	51:38
Label	Earache
Producer	Trey Azagthoth, Mark Prator
Morbid Angel chronology
Entangled in Chaos (1996) Formulas Fatal to the Flesh (1998) Gateways to Annihilation (2000)

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Formulas Fatal to the Flesh is the fifth full-length studio album by death metal band Morbid Angel. The title of this album is a biblical reference: it contains the letter "F" - the 6th letter of the alphabet - capitalized three times, which refers to the Number of the Beast, 666.^{[citation needed]} The Satanic themed lyrics of previous albums had been replaced with lyrics about the Ancient Ones, which would become the primary source of Morbid Angel's lyrical content from this point on. This is the first album to introduce singer/bassist Steve Tucker, replacing David Vincent, and has some lyrical content written in Sumerian.

The tunings for this record as on Covenant and Domination remained E♭ on six string guitar songs, and B♭ on seven stringed guitar songs.^{[citation needed]}

Track listing

• All songs written and arranged by Trey Azagthoth except "Ascent Through the Spheres" and "Hymnos Rituales De Guerra", written by Pete Sandoval.

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Heaving Earth"	3:54
2.	"Prayer of Hatred"	4:28
3.	"Bil Ur-Sag"	2:30
4.	"Nothing is Not"	4:44
5.	"Chambers of Dis"	3:30
6.	"Disturbance in the Great Slumber"	2:32
7.	"Umulamahri"	4:34
8.	"Hellspawn: The Rebirth"	2:43
9.	"Covenant of Death"	6:08
10.	"Hymn to a Gas Giant"	1:04
11.	"Invocation of the Continual One"	9:47
12.	"Ascent through the Spheres"	2:02
13.	"Hymnos Rituales de Guerra"	2:43
14.	"Trooper"	0:55
Total length:		51:38

• "Invocation of the Continual One" is made of unused music the band had composed in its early days in 1984, which they put together and rerecorded for this album.^{[citation needed]}

Personnel

• Steve Tucker – bass, vocals
• Trey Azagthoth – guitar, keyboard, vocals on "Invocation of the Continual One"
• Pete Sandoval – drums, percussion