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This album saw a bit of a dramatic change in musical climate as much of the speed-laden intensity of the previous album Formulas Fatal to the Flesh was abandoned for more of a slower, droning style more reminiscent to Blessed are the Sick. This is also the first album in which Steve Tucker contributed lyrics and music to the band. The title Formulas Fatal to the Flesh, the 6th album of Morbid Angel (not counting Abominations of Desolation), refers to the biblical symbol of the Antichrist. ... The second official release from death metal band Morbid Angel, featuring an overall slower musical development, although containing very fast riffs, it reveals other side of the band, with graver drawling voicings and deeper sounding sometimes approaching a doomish sound. ...
Thus, Gateways To Annihilation is, at least in goal, a return to the form of their first three LPs, though their sound had most certainly been modernized at this stage.
Gateways To Annihilation, while not reaching the sublimity of the first three albums, is the closest that Morbid Angel has yet achieved to returning to the brilliance that defined works such as Blessed Are The Sick.
Gateways To Annihilation is a truly brutal and assertive album in an age of compromise.
The first genuine death-metal band to sign to a major label, Morbid Angel could either be seen as pioneers of the flest art, or the men who made the ultimate Faustian pact and sold their souls to the mainstream.
Their seventh studio album provides proof that Florida's vilest have never let the pursuit of the dollar dull the edge of their scythe; Gateways to Annihilation appears on harder-than-thou imprint Earache Records, a sure sign that the Angel are taking no prisoners.
Beyond the caustic grind, Gateways is surprisingly inventive, as evidenced by the Eastern accents in Rutan's solos and classical-influenced passages.
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