Technical death metal

Technical death metal

Technical death metal
Stylistic origins Cultural origins Death metal, progressive metal, jazz fusion, experimental metal Late 1980s, United States

Typical instruments Vocals Electric guitar Bass guitar Drums Keyboard Other topics Mathcore - Djent

Technical death metal (sometimes called tech-death or progressive death metal[]Wikipedia:Disputed statement[]Wikipedia:Disputed statement) 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 '80s and early '90s by bands such as Death, Atheist and Cynic.[] In 1990, Nocturnus released their debut album, The Key, which was followed by Sarcfago's third album, The Laws of Scourge, featuring a change in their musical style, 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.[] In 1991, New York's grindcore-influenced Suffocation released the Effigy of the Forgotten debut album, which focused on speed and brutality with "sophisticated" sense of songwriting and subsequently became groundbreaking in the genre.[1] Phil Freeman, ex-editor of Metal Edge, has described the sub-genre of technical death metal as "the hidden side of its genre, having more in common with prog-rock and jazz fusion than with the mechanistic, Satan-obsessed grinding that's the music's dominant public image."[]

List of technical death metal bands

The band Necrophagist performing in Germany in 2010

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Band Aborted Aeon Anata Arsis Atheist Augury Becoming the Archetype Beneath the Massacre

Country Belgium Sweden Sweden USA USA Canada USA Canada

Formed 1995 1999 1993 2000 1984 2001 1999 2004 2000 2005 2003 2005 2005 1992 1991
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Between the Buried and Me USA Blotted Science Born of Osiris Brain Drill Burning the Masses Cephalic Carnage Carcariass Cerebral Bore Coprofago Cryptopsy Cynic Darkthrone Death Decapitated Decrepit Birth Despised Icon Diskreet Dying Fetus Extol The Faceless Gojira Gorguts Gorod USA USA USA USA USA France

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United Kingdom 2006 Chile Canada USA Norway USA Poland USA Canada USA USA Norway USA France Canada France 1993 1992 1987 1986 1983 1996 2001 2002 2003 1991 1994 2004 1996 1989 2005
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In Battle Into the Moat Knights of the Abyss Man Must Die Meshuggah Monstrosity Necrophagist Neuraxis Nile Nocturnus Obscura Odious Mortem Opeth Origin Pavor Pestilence Psycroptic The Red Chord Revocation Sarcfago Spawn of Possession Suffocation Theory in Practice Trigger the Bloodshed Veil of Maya Sweden USA USA 1996 2001 2005

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United Kingdom 2002 Sweden USA Germany Canada USA USA Germany USA Sweden USA Germany Netherlands Australia USA USA Brazil Sweden USA Sweden 1987 1990 1992 1994 1993 1988 2002 1998 1990 1997 1987 1986 1999 1999 2006 1985 1997 1989 1995

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United Kingdom 2006 USA 2004

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[1] Rivadavia, Eduardo. [ Effigy of the Forgotten]. Allmusic. Retrieved 2009-08-15. [2] Chad Bowar, Aborted Slaughtered & Apparatus: A Methodical Overture (http:/ / heavymetal. about. com/ od/ cdreviews/ fr/ abortedslaughte. htm) at About.com [3] Chad Bowar Aeon Rise to Dominate (http:/ / heavymetal. about. com/ od/ cdreviews/ fr/ aeonrisetodomin. htm) at About.com [30] Lissa Brennan, With French death-metal pioneers Gojira, the lyrics matter as much as the blastbeats (http:/ / www. pittsburghcitypaper. ws/ gyrobase/ Content?oid=oid:70138), pittsburghcitypaper.ws, October 15, 2009 [51] Dan Marsicano, "(...) technical death metal ala Suffocation and Nile", Trigger The Bloodshed 'The Great Depression' (http:/ / heavymetal. about. com/ od/ cdreviews/ fr/ triggerthebloodshed-thegreatdepression. htm) at About.com

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