Formulas Fatal to the Flesh is the fifth full-length studio album

Album

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 by death metal

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 band Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel

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. The title of this album is a biblical

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 reference: it contains the letter "F" - the 6th letter of the alphabet - capitalized three times, which refers to the Number of the Beast

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, 666

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. The Satanic

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 themed lyrics of previous albums had been replaced with lyrics about the Ancient Ones, which would become the primary source of Morbid Angel

Morbid Angel

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's lyrical content from this point on. This is the first album to introduce singer/bassist Steve Tucker, replacing David Vincent

David Vincent

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, and has some lyrical content written in Sumerian

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.

The tunings for this record as on Covenant

Covenant (Morbid Angel album)

Covenant is the third official full-length album by Florida based death metal band Morbid Angel. It was released on June 22, 1993. This album represented Morbid Angel's first foray into mainstream metal, through their contract with Giant Records. The music video for "God of Emptiness" was featured...

and Domination remained E♭ on six string guitar songs, and B♭ on seven stringed guitar songs.

Track listing

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

• "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.

Personnel

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