Technical death metal

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Technical death metal
Stylistic origins Death metal, progressive metal, avant-garde metal
Cultural origins Late 1980s, United States, Canada
Typical instruments Vocals, electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboard
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Technical death metal (sometimes called tech-death or progressive death metal)[1][dubious – discuss][2][dubious – discuss] is a musical subgenre of death metal that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures.

Technical experimentation in death metal began in the late 1980s and early 1990s by bands such as Death, Atheist and Cynic.[3] In 1990, Nocturnus released their debut album, The Key, which was followed by Sarcófago's third album, The Laws of Scourge, featuring a change in their musical style from black metal/thrash metal to technical death metal. Atheist's second album, Unquestionable Presence; Pestilence's third album, Testimony of the Ancients; and Death's fourth album, Human, were all released the very next year. Human and later Death albums have proven especially influential on later '90s technical death metal bands.[3] In 1991, New York's grindcore-influenced Suffocation released their debut album Effigy of the Forgotten, which focused on pairing speed and brutality with a "sophisticated" sense of songwriting. The album subsequently became groundbreaking in the genre.[4]

List of technical death metal bands

The band Necrophagist performing in Germany in 2010
Band Country Formed Notes
Aeon Sweden 1999 [5]
Anata Sweden 1993 [6]
Archspire Canada 2009
Arkaik USA 2004 [7]
Arsis USA 2000 [3][8]
Asylum USA 2012 [3]
Atheist USA 1984 [3]
Augury Canada 2001 [9]
Becoming the Archetype USA 1999 [10]
Beneath the Massacre Canada 2004 [11][12]
Between the Buried and Me USA 2000 [13]
Beyond Creation Canada 2005
Brain Drill USA 2005 [9][14][15][16]
Burning the Masses USA 2005 [17]
Cannibal Corpse USA 1988 [18]
Cephalic Carnage USA 1992 [19]
Coprofago Chile 1993 [20]
Cryptopsy Canada 1992 [3][21][22][23]
Cynic USA 1987 [3]
Death USA 1983 [3][24]
Decapitated Poland 1996 [25]
Decrepit Birth USA 2001 [26]
Despised Icon Canada 2002 [27][28]
Duality Italy 2003 [29][30]
Dying Fetus USA 1991 [31]
Extol Norway 1994 [32]
The Faceless USA 2004 [33]
Fleshgod Apocalypse Italy 2007
Gojira France 1996 [34]
Gorguts Canada 1989 [3][35]
Gorod France 1997
In Battle Sweden 1996 [36]
Into the Moat USA 2001 [37]
Knights of the Abyss USA 2005 [38]
Man Must Die United Kingdom 2002 [39]
Meshuggah Sweden 1987 [40]
Monstrosity USA 1990 [35]
Necrophagist Germany 1992 [3][41]
Neuraxis Canada 1994 [3][42]
Nile USA 1993 [43]
Nocturnus USA 1988 [44]
Obscura Germany 2002 [9]
Odious Mortem USA 1998 [45]
Opeth Sweden 1990 [46]
Origin USA 1997 [47]
Pestilence Netherlands 1986 [48]
Psycroptic Australia 1999 [49][50][51]
The Red Chord USA 1999 [52]
Revocation USA 2006 [53]
Rings of Saturn USA 2009 [54]
Sadist Italy 1991
Spawn of Possession Sweden 1997 [55]
Suffocation USA 1989 [4]
Trigger the Bloodshed United Kingdom 2006 [56]
Within the Ruins USA 2004

Notes

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  56. ↑ Dan Marsicano, "(...) technical death metal ala Suffocation and Nile", Trigger The Bloodshed – 'The Great Depression' at About.com

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