But it's mixed well and fits snugly in with the songs, making a really nice atmosphere. Brutal yet somehow melodic, tinged with all that heavy bizarre goodness that would eventually seep into Lykathea Aflame.Ī keyboard is a prominent instrument in this band, adding symphonic sounds. This sounds like one of those tech death albums I wouldn't like, but the songwriting is too tight and the riffs too good for me to dislike it.Īnother repeat entry from an older list. This album has some nice shreddy stuff going on, which I'm usually not too keen on, but these guys do it well.Ī fantastic one-man output, especially considering his young age at the time. I don't know what happened with Colonizing the Sun, but that one's not that good. I don't have much to say about it other than the riffs are great.Ī nice meaty guitar tone combined with fantastic vocals makes this an excellent tech death output. Not a fan of the latter, and this album's pretty good. I've only listened to this and A Thin Line Between. This album is free for download on their site, too. I could see the vocals driving people away, but they're pretty good. Hackled in Gore is probably the better album, but from what I heard it's more brutal death than tech death.Ī solid slab of technical death metal mixed with thrash. The main problem is that the keys are mixed WAY TOO LOUD and overshadow some of the brutal riffs below. Instead of constantly being there, it's injected in bursts. These guys went symphonic before Fleshgod did, and they handled it more tastefully. This sounds like the sterile kind of tech death I'd dislike, but this riffs pretty hard. A really interesting mix of sludgy, grindy technical death metal.Īnother band hailing from Japan, that's really brutal and technical. Without all that orchestral flair clogging up the songs, we have some solid technical death metal left behind.Īn obscure band from Japan provides this great album. These guys were better before they went full blown symphonic, because the songs of their recent albums have been incredibly busy and bloated. A nice brutal album that has riffs that kick ass, and a really good female vocalist. Yes, I discovered this band through Rock Band 2 like a lot of people did. For their first two albums they were a pretty good death metal band with some technicality to their riffs. A good starting foray into this list, but they're barely special compared to what's up ahead.Īpparently this band can't decide what to be. Mostly technical riffs but with melodic tinges. Then they decided to make less interesting music. Limit one album per band.Īppearing for the second time on my death metal lists, Arsis' debut was pretty solid stuff. Also the ranking may not be exact because golly that'd be hard. To prevent any duplicated cross entries, something I feel is primarily technical will go on this list, and something that's primarily progressive will go on that list. I'm making a list for progressive death metal as well, and sometimes that overlaps quite a bit with this. It's been a long road listening to several albums to make sure this list had a good base to go off of, so here's my top albums in the genre. Where the songwriting is intense and feels right and where the riffs just slay. There's quite a lot of soulless guitar wanking out there in the front of things that sometimes distracts from the good stuff. Technical death metal is an often misunderstood subgenre of death metal.
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