Kingdoms Disdained is the ninth studio album by American death metal band Morbid Angel, which was released on December 1, 2017 by Silver Lining Music.

[8] On August 3, 2016, Morbid Angel originally signed to UDR Music and was at work on a new studio album, which would be released in 2017 and a tour to take place that year.

"[21] Trey Stated in an interview "“Bro, I didn’t have much of a clue as to what to do for solos so I just got in there and jammed to it and recorded things...I was just exploring the place and tapping into the magic of the moment.

"[22] Kingdoms Disdained received generally positive reception, with critics praising the album as a return to form after the band's controversial past affair Illud Divinum Insanus.

Critics have noted that it represents a pivot away from the industrial-influenced style of their previous album, and a return to the more traditional death metal approach of Formulas Fatal to the Flesh and Heretic.

“Paradigms Warped” has the sort of brutal heft that lifts you out of your skin which I crave from Morbid Angel, whether they are blasting you with speed or crushing you to dust.

They argued that the "problem songs all tend to be the longest and most repetitive, full of forays into slow, chuggy passages (suspiciously deathcore like at times even) and often lacking Azagthoth’s legendary solos.

Conversely the best songs (see the opening handful and a few highlights in the back half like “For No Master”) are usually sharp, concise, and high tempo riff fests", while also suggesting that the album lacked the distinctive personality of the band's previous records.

Decibel wrote that "beneath the horns is a no-compromise sound that works hard to reinvent the halcyon moments on Formulas Fatal to the Flesh and Heretic", though they criticized the album for a lack of diversity amongst the songs, concluding that "minds won't be blown, but merely sated."