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Feb 7, 2024 · Taking the “death” part out of it (since there’s also progressive death metal), technical metal typically integrates outside genres, too, but with a heightened focus on relentless and ...
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Vocalist, guitarist, music writerStockholm, SwedenMember of Desolator, Soliloquium and several other projectsPersonally, I have a strange relationship with technical death metal. And it’s just for this reason. Bands like Necrophagist, Obscura and Spawn of Possession don’t really catch my attention, despite the extremely proficient musicianship. I know I will piss of some people with this. It’s not my intention, and if you’re only looking for insane musici...
Before getting into my massive A-Z band list, I’ll give you the option to do a quick dive into the style. These are my 10 essential technical death metal albums: 1. Death – Human (1991) 2. Decapitated – Winds of Creation (2000) 3. Hour of Penance – The Vile Conception (2008) 4. Infinitum – The Sixth Extinction (2012) 5. Insision – Beneath the Folds...
Anata
Anata is a Swedish tech-death band featuring some glorious guitar-work. The band was on the rise in the early 2000’s, before diminishing in what seems to be label and business trouble. It was sad to see the band go when it felt they were just starting out. The last two Anata albums remain some of the best technical death metal out there.
Atheist
Atheist brought jazz to death metal in the early 90’s, creating a whole new aspect of technical death metal. And influence aside, it’s some damn good stuff that didn’t forget about the aggression either. Like many bands on the list, listening to Atheist is a combination of learning tech-death history and just enjoying the killer music.
Cryptopsy
Cryptopsy’s first two albums are absolutely bananas for their time, both in terms of brutality and technicality. Firstly, it’s good background on the style. Secondly, it’s some of the craziest death metal ever created. It’s a band that still raises my eyebrows, even with all the development in the death metal scene after the albums.
I hope this gave you the basics (and more) on technical death metal music. Follow the links below if you want to continue to explore sub-genres. If you enjoyed the guide, and you’re a fan of Swedish death metal, I’d love if you checked out my band Desolator. Brutal death metal -> Melodic death metal -> Old school death metal -> Progressive death me...
progressive metalcore. Technical death metal (also referred to as tech-death) is a musical subgenre of death metal with particular focus on challenging, demanding instrumental skill and complex songwriting. Experimentation in death metal began in the late 1980s and early 1990s by four bands that are often grouped together as "technical death ...
To me, tech death is faster, has more blastbeats, and is more focused on virtuosity. Prog is more experimental and atmospheric, has more clean sections and interludes, and more focused on melody. But the line is so blurred that a lot of the best bands have songs falling into each genre. Beyond Creation, Obscura, Gorod, Fallujah, they all have a ...
Technical/progressive (or tech/prog) death metal is considered a legitimate genre by some (or even two legitimate genres), while others argue that it is a pseudo-genre. . Bands included in this genre take emphasize technicality in their music, in the form of complex riffs and/or complex song structures, while others apply the ethos of progressive music more broadly without straying from their ...
Progressive Technical Death Metal with Thrash and Blackened elements, FFO: Ophidian I, Hellbore, Slugdge Bandcamp/Spotify. Neurotic Machinery - A Loathsome Aberration (Plzeň Region, Czechia) Progressive Death Metal with a lot of Groove influence, FFO: Gojira, Omnivortex, Stoned God Bandcamp/Spotify
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Ljuk_Skajwolkr. • 1 yr. ago • Edited 1 yr. ago. In my opinion, the key difference between tech death and prog death is that prog is more focused on the “atmosphere/vibe” and breaking new musical ground (or thinking outside the box) while incorporating intricate playing styles, whereas tech death is more or less solely focused on the ...
