Artist: MORBID ANGEL
Album: GATEWAYS TO ANNIHILATION VINYL (LP BLACK)

Release date: 2000/ 2016
EAN/UPS: 5055006523522
Media type: LP

Gateways To Annihilation is the sixth studio album by the death metal band Morbid Angel (excluding the release of Abominations of Desolation and Entangled in Chaos) .

This album saw a some what of a dramatic change in musical style as the speed-laden intensity of the previous album Formulas Fatal to the Flesh was abandoned for a slower, more droning style, reminiscent of Blessed are the Sick. This is also the first album in which Steve Tucker contributed lyrics and music to the band.

Dan Seagrave is the painter of the album cover. He has also painted album covers for Suffocation, and similarities can be found between the album cover of this album and Suffocation's Souls to Deny cover. Whereas the picture shown for this cover is the upper right section of the full picture, the Suffocation cover is a picture of the lower left section.

SIDE ONE:

"Kawazu" (Azagthoth) – 0:35
"Summoning Redemption" (Azagthoth, Tucker) – 7:16
"Ageless, Still I Am" (Azagthoth, Tucker) – 5:18
"He Who Sleeps" (Tucker) – 4:04
"To the Victor the Spoils" (Tucker, Azagthoth) – 3:43
"At One with Nothing" (Azagthoth, Tucker) – 4:33

SIDE TWO:

"Opening of the Gates" (Tucker, Azagthoth) – 5:15
"Secured Limitations" (Azagthoth) – 4:39
"Awakening" (Rutan) – 1:21
"I" (Azagthoth, Tucker) – 3:50
"God of the Forsaken" (Rutan, Tucker) – 3:49

LINE-UP:

Trey Azagthoth - guitar, vocals
Erik Rutan - guitar, keyboards
Pete Sandoval - drums
Steve Tucker - bass guitar, vocals