{{Use mdy dates|date=June 2025}} {{Infobox album| | name = Anatomy Is Destiny | type = studio | artist = Exhumed | cover = Anatomyisdestiny.jpg | alt = | released = {{Start date|2003|7|29}} | recorded = | venue = | studio = | genre = {{hlist|Death metal|deathgrind}} | length = {{Duration|m=45|s=23}} | label = Relapse | producer = Neil Kernon | prev_title = Slaughtercult | prev_year = 2000 | next_title = Platters of Splatter | next_year = 2004 }} {{Music ratings | rev1 = Allmusic | rev1score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}<ref name="Allmusic Review">{{AllMusic|class=album|id=r651078}}</ref> |rev2 = ''Aversion Online'' |rev2score = 8/10<ref name=Aversion>{{cite web|title=Exhumed ''Anatomy is Destiny'' CD|url=http://www.aversionline.com/reviews/581/|publisher=Aversion Online|accessdate=May 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304112824/http://www.aversionline.com/reviews/581/|archive-date=March 4, 2016|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}}</ref> |rev3 = MetalStorm |rev3score = 9/10<ref>{{cite web|author=Herzebeth|title=Exhumed - ''Anatomy Is Destiny'' review|url=http://www.metalstorm.net/pub/review.php?review_id=199|publisher=MetalStorm|accessdate=May 5, 2013|date=August 17, 2005}}</ref> }}
'''''Anatomy Is Destiny''''' is the third full-length album by American death metal band Exhumed. The album is regarded as Exhumed's "most critically acclaimed" album.<ref name="Allmusic Bio">{{cite web|last=York|first=William|title=Biography: Exhumed|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/exhumed-mn0000792374|publisher=Allmusic|accessdate=May 5, 2013}}</ref> The title of the album is taken from a well-known quote by Sigmund Freud.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anatomy is destiny |url=https://www.psychology-lexicon.com/cms/glossary/34-glossary-a/1784-anatomy-is-destiny.html |access-date=2023-09-05 |website=www.psychology-lexicon.com}}</ref> The only album to feature Bud Burke on bass before switching to guitar on ''Necrocracy''. The last album to feature guitarist Mike Beams and drummer Col Jones.
==Track listing== All songs written by Matt Harvey, except where noted. {{Track listing |title1 = Anatomy Is Destiny |length1 = 1:09 |title2 = Waxwork |length2 = 4:34 |title3 = The Matter of Splatter |length3 = 3:41 |writer3 = Harvey, Mike Beams |title4 = Under the Knife |length4 = 5:00 |title5 = Consuming Impulse |length5 = 4:21 |title6 = Grotesqueries |length6 = 3:59 |writer6 = Harvey, Beams |title7 = In the Name of Gore |length7 = 4:48 |title8 = Arclight |length8 = 3:18 |writer8 = Harvey, Beams |title9 = Nativity Obscene (A Nursery Chyme) |length9 = 3:43 |title10 = Death Walks Behind You |length10 = 3:31 |title11 = A Song for the Dead |length11 = 6:59 }}
==Personnel== *Matt Harvey – guitars, vocals *Mike Beams – guitars, vocals *Bud Burke – bass *Col Jones – drums *Sakara Birdong – additional vocals
===Production=== *Neil Kernon – production, engineering, mixing *Scott Hull – mastering
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Category:Exhumed (band) albums Category:2003 albums Category:Relapse Records albums Category:Albums produced by Neil Kernon