Best Technical Death Metal Bands

116 bands

Rank	Band / Formed / Genres	Albums
1	Death 1984, United States Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Symbolic (1995) #27 Human (1991) #46 Leprosy (1988) #79
2	Cryptopsy 1992, Canada Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	None So Vile (1996) #31 Blasphemy Made Flesh (1994) #278 Cryptopsy (2012) #684
3	Nile 1993, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Annihilation of the Wicked (2005) #208 In Their Darkened Shrines (2002) #294 Those Whom the Gods Detest (2009) #862
4	Fleshgod Apocalypse 2007, Italy Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	King (2016) #142 Oracles (2009) #545 Agony (2011) #561
5	Obscura 2002, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Akróasis (2016) #194 Cosmogenesis (2009) #916 Omnivium (2011) #1018
6	Dying Fetus 1991, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Descend into Depravity (2009) #338 Killing on Adrenaline (1998) #1098 War of Attrition (2007) #1255
7	Atheist 1988, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Unquestionable Presence (1991) #385 Piece of Time (1990) #918 Elements (1993) #3346
8	Fallujah 2007, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Deathcore	The Harvest Wombs (2011) #886 Nomadic (2013) [EP] #1033 The Flesh Prevails (2014) #1412
9	Decapitated 1996, Poland Technical Death Metal	Cancer Culture (2022) #1465 Organic Hallucinosis (2006) #2494 Carnival Is Forever (2011) #2576
10	Cynic 1987, United States Progressive Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Rock	Focus (1993) #324 Traced in Air (2008) #1130 Uroboric Forms - The Complete Demo Recordings (2017) [Compilation]
11	Nocturnus 1987, United States Technical Death Metal	The Key (1990) #184 Thresholds (1992) #1939 Nocturnus (1993) [EP]
12	Revocation 2006, United States Technical Thrash Metal, Technical Death Metal	Empire of the Obscene (2008) #1768 Chaos of Forms (2011) #2278 Netherheaven (2022) #2627
13	Origin 1997, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Antithesis (2008) #795 Entity (2011) #870 Unparalleled Universe (2017) #2153
14	Archspire 2009, Canada Technical Death Metal	Bleed the Future (2021) #520 Relentless Mutation (2017) #1314 The Lucid Collective (2014) #2942
15	Rivers of Nihil 2008, United States Technical Death Metal	Where Owls Know My Name (2018) #879 The Work (2021) #2947 Monarchy (2015) #5653
16	Hour of Penance 1999, Italy Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Sedition (2012) #409 The Vile Conception (2008) #1893 Paradogma (2010) #2223
17	Suffocation 1989, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Pierced From Within (1995) #173 Effigy of the Forgotten (1991) #266 Hymns from the Apocrypha (2023) #1483
18	Ikuinen Kaamos 1997, Finland Progressive Death Metal, Black Metal	The Forlorn (2006) #865 Closure (2008) [EP] #1383 Fall of Icons (2010) #1886
19	Allegaeon 2008, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Apoptosis (2019) #1183 Proponent for Sentience (2016) #1241 Damnun (2022) #2082
20	Gorod 2005, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Jazz	Leading Vision (2006) #1544 Kiss the Freak (2017) [EP] Aethra (2018) #1665
21	Beyond Creation 2005, Canada Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	The Aura (2011) #651 Algorythm (2018) #2262 Earthborn Evolution (2014) #5855
22	Gorguts 1989, Canada Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Avant-garde Metal, Dissonant Death Metal	Obscura (1998) #1735 The Erosion of Sanity (1993) #2063 From Wisdom to Hate (2001) #2401
23	Demilich Finland Technical Death Metal	Nespithe (1993) #233 The Four Instructive Tales... of Decomposition (1991) [Demo] Regurgitation of Blood (1991) [Demo]
24	Defeated Sanity 1993, Germany Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Chapters of Repugnance (2010) #1497 Psalms of the Moribund (2007) #2567 Passages Into Deformity (2013) #2843
25	Necrophagist 1992, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Epitaph (2004) #1045 Onset of Putrefaction (1999) #2088 Requiems of Festered Gore (1992) [Demo]
26	Rings of Saturn 2009, United States Technical Deathcore	Lugal Ki En (2014) #888 Dingir (2012) #1736 Ultu Ulla (2017) #3574
27	First Fragment 2007, Canada Technical Death Metal	Dasein (2016) #213 Gloire Éternelle (2021) #960 The Afterthought Ecstasy (2010) [EP]
28	Ulcerate 2000, New Zealand Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Stare into Death and Be Still (2020) #713 Shrines of Paralysis (2016) #2152 Everything Is Fire (2009) #3236
29	Infant Annihilator 2012, United States Slamming Brutal Deathcore, Technical Deathcore	The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch (2016) #1408 The Battle of Yaldabaoth (2019) #4959 The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution (2012) #6611
30	Arsis 2000, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	A Diamond for Disease (2005) [EP] #1972 We Are the Nightmare (2008) #4979 Starve for the Devil (2010) #5141
31	Exocrine 2013, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Maelstrom (2020) #4049 The Hybrid Suns (2022) #4597 Molten Giant (2018)
32	Inferi 2005, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Revenant (2018) #2537 Vile Genesis (2021) #5607 The End of an Era \| Rebirth (2019) #7476
33	The Faceless 2004, United States Technical Deathcore, Technical Death Metal	Planetary Duality (2008) #5225 Autotheism (2012) #5647 Akeldama (2006)
34	Dan Swanö Sweden Technical Death Metal	Moontower (1999) #957
35	Spawn of Possession 2007, Sweden Technical Death Metal	Incurso (2012) #4619 Cabinet (2003) Noctambulant (2006) #7407
36	Psycroptic 1999, Australia Technical Death Metal	As the Kingdom Drowns (2018) (Ob)Servant (2008) #2641 The Scepter of the Ancients (2003) #4727
37	!T.O.O.H.! 1993, Czech Republic Technical Death Metal, Deathgrind	Order and Punishment (2005) #1019 Pod vládou biče (2002) #2402 Democratic Solution (2013)
38	Wormed 1998, Spain Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Krighsu (2016) #1660 Exodromos (2013) #2844 Planisphærium (2003) #4405
39	Quo Vadis 1993, Canada Technical Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal	Day Into Night (2000) #3165 Defiant Imagination (2004) #3356 Defiant Indoctrination (2005) [Video]
40	Cattle Decapitation 1996, United States Deathgrind, Death Metal, Goregrind	Monolith of Inhumanity (2012) #559 The Anthropocene Extinction (2015) #604 Medium Rarities (2018) [Compilation]
41	Deeds of Flesh 1993, United States Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Path of the Weakening (1999) #1015 Portals to Canaan (2013) #2140 Trading Pieces (1996) #2796
42	Tribulation 2004, Sweden Death Metal, Gothic Metal	The Formulas of Death (2013) The Children of the Night (2015) #1864 Down Below (2018) #4226
43	Augury 2002, Canada Technical Death Metal	Illusive Golden Age (2018) #1282 Concealed (2004) #6621 Fragmentary Evidence (2009) #7518
44	Ophidian I 2010, Iceland Technical Death Metal	Desolate (2021) #2296 Solvet Saeclum (2012) Demo (2011) [Demo]
45	Hannes Grossmann Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Wisdom of Echoes (2024) [EP] The Radial Covenant (2014) #3994 The Crypts of Sleep (2016) #4804
46	Lorna Shore 2009, United States Symphonic Deathcore	...And I Return to Nothingness (2021) [EP] #1109 Pain Remains (2022) #2710 Immortal (2020) #3349
47	Sadist 1990, Italy Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Above the Light (1993) Tribe (1996) #5285 Season in Silence (2010)
48	Aborted 1995, Belgium Brutal Death Metal	Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done (2003) #263 Retrogore (2016) #1590 Global Flatline (2012) #3493
49	Cytotoxin 2010, Germany Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Radiophobia (2012) #1500 Gammageddon (2017) #4029 Plutonium Heaven (2011)
50	Job for a Cowboy 2003, United States Deathcore, Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Moon Healer (2024) #4569 Ruination (2009) #4578 Genesis (2007) #5385

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