Gateways to Annihilation

Infobox Album | Name = Gateways To Annihilation
Type = studio
Artist = Morbid Angel


Released = October 17, 2000
Recorded =
Genre = Death metal
Length = 44:25
Label = Earache
Producer = Morbid Angel and Jim Morris
Reviews = *AllmusicRating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:fifuxql0ldke link]
Last album = "Formulas Fatal to the Flesh"
(1998)
This album = "Gateways To Annihilation"
(2000)
Next album = "Heretic"
(2003)

"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.

Track listing

#"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
#"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

Credits

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