Oh fuck, this is great. I’ve always avoided later Morbid Angel because I wrongly assumed it would be total rubbish. I had this in mp3 format when I was a teenager and it had all the “lavas” with it (like a bonus disc of guitar solos or something), and that along with the multiple ambient/intermission tracks here really distracted me away from the meat of the project.
Thankfully, all these years later I decided to return to Formulas Fatal To The Flesh as its an absolute monster of an album. Steve Tucker seems to be a shot in the arm for the band after Dave Vincent’s departure. There seems to have been an informed decision made to ramp everything up to hyperspeed. This is my favourite Pete Sandoval performance on a record. You can really hear the intensity of his playing here. No triggers, no masters.