Best Technical Death Metal Bands

118 bands

Rank	Band / Formed / Genres	Albums
1	Death 1984, United States Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Symbolic (1995) #19 Human (1991) #36 The Sound of Perseverance (1998) #62
2	Cryptopsy 1992, Canada Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	None So Vile (1996) #33 Blasphemy Made Flesh (1994) #300 Cryptopsy (2012) #742
3	Nile 1993, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Annihilation of the Wicked (2005) #264 In Their Darkened Shrines (2002) #350 Those Whom the Gods Detest (2009) #783
4	Fleshgod Apocalypse 2007, Italy Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	King (2016) #151 Oracles (2009) #556 Agony (2011) #557
5	Obscura 2002, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Akróasis (2016) #218 Cosmogenesis (2009) #942 Omnivium (2011) #1051
6	Dying Fetus 1991, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Descend into Depravity (2009) #331 Killing on Adrenaline (1998) #830 Destroy the Opposition (2000) #1216
7	Atheist 1988, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Unquestionable Presence (1991) #390 Piece of Time (1990) #1048 Elements (1993) #3511
8	Decapitated 1996, Poland Technical Death Metal	Cancer Culture (2022) #1523 Winds of Creation (2000) #2134 Carnival Is Forever (2011) #2895
9	Cynic 1987, United States Progressive Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Rock	Focus (1993) #378 Traced in Air (2008) #1168 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] #1066 The Flesh Prevails (2014) #1476
11	Nocturnus 1987, United States Technical Death Metal	The Key (1990) #197 Thresholds (1992) #1978 Nocturnus (1993) [EP]
12	Archspire 2009, Canada Technical Death Metal	Bleed the Future (2021) #475 Relentless Mutation (2017) #1024 The Lucid Collective (2014) #3062
13	Revocation 2006, United States Technical Thrash Metal, Technical Death Metal	Empire of the Obscene (2008) #1813 Chaos of Forms (2011) #2338 Netherheaven (2022) #2536
14	Origin 1997, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Antithesis (2008) #842 Entity (2011) #1184 Unparalleled Universe (2017) #2225
15	Suffocation 1989, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Pierced From Within (1995) #175 Effigy of the Forgotten (1991) #243 Human Waste (1991) [EP] #1927
16	Ulcerate 2000, New Zealand Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Stare into Death and Be Still (2020) #456 Cutting the Throat of God (2024) #893 Shrines of Paralysis (2016) #1648
17	Hour of Penance 1999, Italy Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Sedition (2012) #439 The Vile Conception (2008) #1599 Paradogma (2010) #2289
18	Rivers of Nihil 2008, United States Technical Death Metal	Where Owls Know My Name (2018) #817 The Work (2021) #3066 Monarchy (2015) #5938
19	Gorguts 1989, Canada Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Avant-garde Metal, Dissonant Death Metal	The Erosion of Sanity (1993) #1911 From Wisdom to Hate (2001) #2169 Obscura (1998) #2629
20	Allegaeon 2008, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Apoptosis (2019) #1224 Proponent for Sentience (2016) #1302 Damnun (2022) #2309
21	Gorod 2005, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Jazz	Leading Vision (2006) #1600 Kiss the Freak (2017) [EP] Process of a New Decline (2009) #2106
22	Beyond Creation 2005, Canada Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	The Aura (2011) #674 Algorythm (2018) #2120 Earthborn Evolution (2014) #6154
23	Necrophagist 1992, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Epitaph (2004) #790 Onset of Putrefaction (1999) #1104 Requiems of Festered Gore (1992) [Demo]
24	Defeated Sanity 1993, Germany Technical Brutal Death Metal	Chapters of Repugnance (2010) #1218 Psalms of the Moribund (2007) #2291 Passages Into Deformity (2013) #2968
25	Demilich Finland Technical Death Metal	Nespithe (1993) #240 The Four Instructive Tales... of Decomposition (1991) [Demo] Regurgitation of Blood (1991) [Demo]
26	First Fragment 2007, Canada Technical Death Metal	Dasein (2016) #221 Gloire Éternelle (2021) #773 The Afterthought Ecstasy (2010) [EP]
27	Rings of Saturn 2009, United States Technical Deathcore	Lugal Ki En (2014) #923 Dingir (2012) #1783 Ultu Ulla (2017) #3050
28	Ikuinen Kaamos 1997, Finland Progressive Death Metal, Black Metal	The Forlorn (2006) #847 Closure (2008) [EP] #1436 Fall of Icons (2010) #1930
29	Infant Annihilator 2012, United States Slamming Brutal Deathcore, Technical Deathcore	The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch (2016) #1465 The Battle of Yaldabaoth (2019) #5206 The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution (2012) #6937
30	Arsis 2000, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	A Diamond for Disease (2005) [EP] #2021 We Are the Nightmare (2008) #5231 Starve for the Devil (2010) #5409
31	Exocrine 2013, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Maelstrom (2020) #4210 The Hybrid Suns (2022) #4805 Molten Giant (2018)
32	Inferi 2005, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Revenant (2018) #2622 Vile Genesis (2021) #5885 The End of an Era \| Rebirth (2019) #7881
33	The Faceless 2004, United States Technical Deathcore, Technical Death Metal	Planetary Duality (2008) #5488 Autotheism (2012) #5933 Akeldama (2006)
34	Dan Swanö Sweden Technical Death Metal	Moontower (1999) #921
35	Spawn of Possession 2007, Sweden Technical Death Metal	Incurso (2012) #4835 Cabinet (2003) Noctambulant (2006) #7800
36	Psycroptic 1999, Australia Technical Death Metal	As the Kingdom Drowns (2018) (Ob)Servant (2008) #2747 The Scepter of the Ancients (2003) #4958
37	Cattle Decapitation 1996, United States Deathgrind, Death Metal, Goregrind	The Anthropocene Extinction (2015) #632 Monolith of Inhumanity (2012) #728 Medium Rarities (2018) [Compilation]
38	Wormed 1998, Spain Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Krighsu (2016) #1713 Exodromos (2013) #2969 Planisphærium (2003) #4598
39	Quo Vadis 1993, Canada Technical Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal	Day Into Night (2000) #3303 Defiant Imagination (2004) #3522 Defiant Indoctrination (2005) [Video]
40	Tribulation 2004, Sweden Death Metal, Gothic Metal	The Formulas of Death (2013) The Children of the Night (2015) #1566 Down Below (2018) #3650
41	Deeds of Flesh 1993, United States Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Path of the Weakening (1999) #1062 Portals to Canaan (2013) #2212 Trading Pieces (1996) #2568
42	!T.O.O.H.! 1993, Czech Republic Technical Death Metal, Deathgrind	Order and Punishment (2005) #1052 Pod vládou biče (2002) #2469 Democratic Solution (2013)
43	Hannes Grossmann Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	The Radial Covenant (2014) #4728 The Crypts of Sleep (2016) #5035 Wisdom of Echoes (2024) [EP] #6911
44	Augury 2002, Canada Technical Death Metal	Illusive Golden Age (2018) #2037 Concealed (2004) #6952 Fragmentary Evidence (2009) #7925
45	Brodequin 1998, United States Brutal Death Metal	Harbinger of Woe (2024) #2320 Instruments of Torture (2000) #3386 Festival of Death (2001) #7364
46	Ophidian I 2010, Iceland Technical Death Metal	Desolate (2021) #2353 Solvet Saeclum (2012) Demo (2011) [Demo]
47	Lorna Shore 2009, United States Symphonic Deathcore	...And I Return to Nothingness (2021) [EP] #1138 Pain Remains (2022) #3011 Immortal (2020) #3516
48	Sadist 1990, Italy Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Above the Light (1993) Tribe (1996) #5552 Season in Silence (2010)
49	Aborted 1995, Belgium Brutal Death Metal	Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done (2003) #259 Retrogore (2016) #1326 Global Flatline (2012) #3658
50	Cytotoxin 2010, Germany Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Radiophobia (2012) #1553 Gammageddon (2017) #4187 Plutonium Heaven (2011)

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