Best Technical Death Metal Bands

117 bands

Rank	Band / Formed / Genres	Albums
1	Death 1984, United States Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Symbolic (1995) #20 Human (1991) #35 Leprosy (1988) #59
2	Cryptopsy 1992, Canada Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	None So Vile (1996) #32 Blasphemy Made Flesh (1994) #283 Cryptopsy (2012) #743
3	Nile 1993, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Annihilation of the Wicked (2005) #246 In Their Darkened Shrines (2002) #347 Those Whom the Gods Detest (2009) #785
4	Fleshgod Apocalypse 2007, Italy Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	King (2016) #151 Agony (2011) #534 Oracles (2009) #569
5	Obscura 2002, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Akróasis (2016) #218 Cosmogenesis (2009) #943 Omnivium (2011) #1052
6	Dying Fetus 1991, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Descend into Depravity (2009) #328 Killing on Adrenaline (1998) #828 Destroy the Opposition (2000) #1223
7	Atheist 1988, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Unquestionable Presence (1991) #391 Piece of Time (1990) #1049 Elements (1993) #3484
8	Decapitated 1996, Poland Technical Death Metal	Cancer Culture (2022) #1517 Winds of Creation (2000) #2122 Carnival Is Forever (2011) #2874
9	Cynic 1987, United States Progressive Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Rock	Focus (1993) #363 Traced in Air (2008) #1169 Uroboric Forms - The Complete Demo Recordings (2017) [Compilation]
10	Fallujah 2007, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Deathcore	The Harvest Wombs (2011) #922 Nomadic (2013) [EP] #1067 The Flesh Prevails (2014) #1471
11	Nocturnus 1987, United States Technical Death Metal	The Key (1990) #193 Thresholds (1992) #1973 Nocturnus (1993) [EP]
12	Archspire 2009, Canada Technical Death Metal	Bleed the Future (2021) #474 Relentless Mutation (2017) #1019 The Lucid Collective (2014) #3045
13	Revocation 2006, United States Technical Thrash Metal, Technical Death Metal	Empire of the Obscene (2008) #1814 Netherheaven (2022) #2102 Chaos of Forms (2011) #2321
14	Origin 1997, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Antithesis (2008) #840 Entity (2011) #1187 Unparalleled Universe (2017) #2208
15	Suffocation 1989, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Pierced From Within (1995) #171 Effigy of the Forgotten (1991) #241 Human Waste (1991) [EP] #1923
16	Hour of Penance 1999, Italy Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Sedition (2012) #434 The Vile Conception (2008) #1592 Paradogma (2010) #2272
17	Rivers of Nihil 2008, United States Technical Death Metal	Where Owls Know My Name (2018) #907 The Work (2021) #3049 Monarchy (2015) #5883
18	Gorguts 1989, Canada Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Avant-garde Metal, Dissonant Death Metal	The Erosion of Sanity (1993) #1908 From Wisdom to Hate (2001) #2151 Obscura (1998) #2615
19	Allegaeon 2008, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Apoptosis (2019) #1230 Proponent for Sentience (2016) #1300 Damnun (2022) #2291
20	Gorod 2005, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Jazz	Leading Vision (2006) #1593 Kiss the Freak (2017) [EP] Process of a New Decline (2009) #2094
21	Beyond Creation 2005, Canada Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	The Aura (2011) #670 Algorythm (2018) #2109 Earthborn Evolution (2014) #6089
22	Ulcerate 2000, New Zealand Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Stare into Death and Be Still (2020) #452 Cutting the Throat of God (2024) #1183 Shrines of Paralysis (2016) #1644
23	Defeated Sanity 1993, Germany Technical Brutal Death Metal	Chapters of Repugnance (2010) #1545 Psalms of the Moribund (2007) #2273 Passages Into Deformity (2013) #2948
24	Demilich Finland Technical Death Metal	Nespithe (1993) #238 The Four Instructive Tales... of Decomposition (1991) [Demo] Regurgitation of Blood (1991) [Demo]
25	Necrophagist 1992, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Epitaph (2004) #790 Onset of Putrefaction (1999) #1394 Requiems of Festered Gore (1992) [Demo]
26	First Fragment 2007, Canada Technical Death Metal	Dasein (2016) #220 Gloire Éternelle (2021) #776 The Afterthought Ecstasy (2010) [EP]
27	Rings of Saturn 2009, United States Technical Deathcore	Lugal Ki En (2014) #923 Dingir (2012) #1782 Ultu Ulla (2017) #3037
28	Ikuinen Kaamos 1997, Finland Progressive Death Metal, Black Metal	The Forlorn (2006) #844 Closure (2008) [EP] #1431 Fall of Icons (2010) #1926
29	Infant Annihilator 2012, United States Slamming Brutal Deathcore, Technical Deathcore	The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch (2016) #1461 The Battle of Yaldabaoth (2019) #5151 The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution (2012) #6865
30	Arsis 2000, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	A Diamond for Disease (2005) [EP] #2012 We Are the Nightmare (2008) #5175 Starve for the Devil (2010) #5353
31	Exocrine 2013, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Maelstrom (2020) #4176 The Hybrid Suns (2022) #4759 Molten Giant (2018)
32	Inferi 2005, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Revenant (2018) #2608 Vile Genesis (2021) #5831 The End of an Era \| Rebirth (2019) #7789
33	The Faceless 2004, United States Technical Deathcore, Technical Death Metal	Planetary Duality (2008) #5430 Autotheism (2012) #5878 Akeldama (2006)
34	Dan Swanö Sweden Technical Death Metal	Moontower (1999) #921
35	Spawn of Possession 2007, Sweden Technical Death Metal	Incurso (2012) #4788 Cabinet (2003) Noctambulant (2006) #7713
36	Psycroptic 1999, Australia Technical Death Metal	As the Kingdom Drowns (2018) (Ob)Servant (2008) #2726 The Scepter of the Ancients (2003) #4912
37	Cattle Decapitation 1996, United States Deathgrind, Death Metal, Goregrind	Monolith of Inhumanity (2012) #537 The Anthropocene Extinction (2015) #629 Medium Rarities (2018) [Compilation]
38	!T.O.O.H.! 1993, Czech Republic Technical Death Metal, Deathgrind	Order and Punishment (2005) #1053 Pod vládou biče (2002) #2460 Democratic Solution (2013)
39	Wormed 1998, Spain Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Krighsu (2016) #1710 Exodromos (2013) #2949 Planisphærium (2003) #4553
40	Quo Vadis 1993, Canada Technical Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal	Day Into Night (2000) #3281 Defiant Imagination (2004) #3493 Defiant Indoctrination (2005) [Video]
41	Tribulation 2004, Sweden Death Metal, Gothic Metal	The Formulas of Death (2013) The Children of the Night (2015) #1558 Down Below (2018) #3618
42	Deeds of Flesh 1993, United States Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Path of the Weakening (1999) #1063 Portals to Canaan (2013) #2193 Trading Pieces (1996) #2554
43	Hannes Grossmann Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Wisdom of Echoes (2024) [EP] #4037 The Radial Covenant (2014) #4683 The Crypts of Sleep (2016) #4987
44	Augury 2002, Canada Technical Death Metal	Illusive Golden Age (2018) #2027 Concealed (2004) #6879 Fragmentary Evidence (2009) #7833
45	Ophidian I 2010, Iceland Technical Death Metal	Desolate (2021) #2339 Solvet Saeclum (2012) Demo (2011) [Demo]
46	Lorna Shore 2009, United States Symphonic Deathcore	...And I Return to Nothingness (2021) [EP] #1188 Pain Remains (2022) #2993 Immortal (2020) #3487
47	Brodequin 1998, United States Brutal Death Metal	Harbinger of Woe (2024) #3308 Instruments of Torture (2000) #3363 Festival of Death (2001) #7286
48	Sadist 1990, Italy Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Above the Light (1993) Tribe (1996) #5493 Season in Silence (2010)
49	Aborted 1995, Belgium Brutal Death Metal	Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done (2003) #254 Retrogore (2016) #1321 Global Flatline (2012) #3626
50	Cytotoxin 2010, Germany Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Radiophobia (2012) #1547 Gammageddon (2017) #4155 Plutonium Heaven (2011)

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