Legendary. Innovative. Vital. Eternal.

 Words that are meaningless without the structured weight of action
 behind them. From their inception over a decade ago, Morbid Angel
 have truly embodied those words, both in spiritual and earthly
 manifestations, becoming death metal ground-breakers in the process.

With the recording of their fifth studio album, Formulas Fatal To The
Flesh, Morbid Angel have forged a testament to their conviction, once
again proving that their power is generated solely from within and
 unable to be swayed by outside influence or opposing ideology. In the
noble process of giving the highest of praise to the Ancient Ones and
celebrating the Triumvirate of the Living Continuum (the ultimate
purpose behind this creation), Morbid Angel have made an album that
reaches heights and depths previously unfathomed within the death
metalworld. As with any genre of music, the cream will always rise to
the top. With the demise of so many bands bound and defined solely by
imitation, Morbid Angel, the true innovators, remain alone, on top.

The world at-large was introduced to the furious intensity of Morbid
 ngel in 1989 with Earache's release of Altars Of Madness. The album
 as a revolutionary and unprecedented statement in extreme metal at
the time, its strong song writing, finely tuned musical firewinds and
uncontrollable lyrical rage catching so many ears that it catapulted to
#1 on the UK Independent chart. Their global debut has gone on to be
unequivocally acknowledged as one of the most influential death metal
albums ever recorded, a whirling vortex of searing anger and
unstoppable energy. 1991's Blessed Are The Sick cemented Morbid
Angel's (song writer/guitarist Trey Azagthoth in particular) reputation
as truly innovative composers, infusing prevalent classical
undercurrents within their exceedingly powerful material. Blessed...
retained the devastating windstorm sound that had become their
trademark and took it to yet another dimension. With two acclaimed
albums behind them and a maniacal touring schedule, the band had now
become a force that demanded to be recognized even further outside of
the growing death metal community. In 1993, they broke a major
barrier within that community by becoming the first death metal band
to be signed to a major label. Covenant proved to be a milestone,
signifying that a band as uncompromisingly brutal as Morbid Angel
could not only release an album inside of the major label system, but
thrive in that world. That was further proven with their next release.
The slime-ridden guitar mastery of 1995's Domination was a
statement of what the band had become: an ever-expanding organic
machine, fueled by an unquenchable thirst and driven by an unstoppable
will.

The first two classics, coupled with two major label triumphs that have
sold nearly a half million albums worldwide, and a live album
(Entangled In Chaos) which marked the emergence of Trey Azagthoth
as a producer to be reckoned with, have set the stage for the radiating
future of Azagthoth, drummer extrordinaire and emerging songwriter
Pete Sandoval and newly recruited vocalist/bassist Steve Tucker. As
the new album's producer and conceptual mastermind, Azagthoth
describes Formulas Fatal To The Flesh as "a collection of Cutha Hymns
that lift up and give praise to the Most Ancient of Days." A true concept
album from beginning to end, its aim is to lift up and ignite the soul,
awakening and inspiring those bound by the shackles of the falsifiers.
The music within Formulas... will undoubtedly cast it as a milestone of
metal extremity. Encompassing all aspects of the complete Morbid
Angel sound, the album is as fast and furious one minute and as slimy
and torturous the next as any of its predecessors. The sheer strength
and diversity of the musical material, along with its strong and
uplifting ideology, is destined to set it leagues apart from any death
metal album in the past.

Ensconced in praise of the Ancient Ones and in celebration of the
thunderous Me-Gal-Gal, the Most High Triumvirate of the Living
Continuum (the composite of all things, positive and negative), Morbid
Angel have created a work with a timeless message. "Good and evil,
right and wrong -- they are inherently interconnected and a part of
everything," says Azagthoth. The anger contained within Formulas
Fatal To The Flesh, while often seeming all-encompassing if viewed
strictly at the surface, is tightly focused. "They say knowing is half the
battle," continues Azagthoth. "And in this case, it's identifying the
problem of mankind: the treachery, the deception, the enslavement,
the falsifying, the ill-natured intentions... we must know what it is and
drive it away from ourselves and have it push us towards our goals."
Coming just two years from the dawn of a new millennium, Formulas
Fatal To The Flesh is ultimately destined to become the band's most
glorious work, something which death metal music, and more
importantly, individuals, will consistently turn towards for its
innovative brutality and inspiring message for as long as music
remains.

Morbid Angel have done what they do best by once again re-defining an
entire genre of music and creating the new standard for death metal
bands. Formulas Fatal To The Flesh is nothing less than a musical,
lyrical and conceptual masterpiece.