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) #37 Leprosy (1988) #59
2	Cryptopsy 1992, Canada Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	None So Vile (1996) #33 Blasphemy Made Flesh (1994) #274 Cryptopsy (2012) #755
3	Nile 1993, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Annihilation of the Wicked (2005) #299 In Their Darkened Shrines (2002) #359 Those Whom the Gods Detest (2009) #798
4	Fleshgod Apocalypse 2007, Italy Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	King (2016) #155 Oracles (2009) #563 Agony (2011) #564
5	Obscura 2002, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Akróasis (2016) #227 Cosmogenesis (2009) #956 Omnivium (2011) #1061
6	Dying Fetus 1991, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Descend into Depravity (2009) #334 Killing on Adrenaline (1998) #908 War of Attrition (2007) #1270
7	Atheist 1988, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Unquestionable Presence (1991) #375 Piece of Time (1990) #901 Elements (1993) #3361
8	Decapitated 1996, Poland Technical Death Metal	Winds of Creation (2000) #1746 Cancer Culture (2022) #2136 Carnival Is Forever (2011) #2925
9	Fallujah 2007, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Deathcore	The Harvest Wombs (2011) #929 Nomadic (2013) [EP] #1072 The Flesh Prevails (2014) #1541
10	Cynic 1987, United States Progressive Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Rock	Focus (1993) #367 Traced in Air (2008) #1212 Uroboric Forms - The Complete Demo Recordings (2017) [Compilation]
11	Nocturnus 1987, United States Technical Death Metal	The Key (1990) #199 Thresholds (1992) #2182 Nocturnus (1993) [EP]
12	Archspire 2009, Canada Technical Death Metal	Bleed the Future (2021) #479 Relentless Mutation (2017) #853 The Lucid Collective (2014) #3097
13	Revocation 2006, United States Technical Thrash Metal, Technical Death Metal	Empire of the Obscene (2008) #1829 Chaos of Forms (2011) #2357 Revocation (2013) #3367
14	Suffocation 1989, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Pierced From Within (1995) #147 Effigy of the Forgotten (1991) #206 Hymns from the Apocrypha (2023) #1589
15	Origin 1997, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Antithesis (2008) #898 Entity (2011) #1028 Unparalleled Universe (2017) #2240
16	Ulcerate 2000, New Zealand Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Stare into Death and Be Still (2020) #616 Cutting the Throat of God (2024) #895 Everything Is Fire (2009) #2549
17	Hour of Penance 1999, Italy Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Sedition (2012) #457 The Vile Conception (2008) #1607 Paradogma (2010) #2308
18	Rivers of Nihil 2008, United States Technical Death Metal	Where Owls Know My Name (2018) #829 The Work (2021) #3101 Monarchy (2015) #6026
19	Gorguts 1989, Canada Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Avant-garde Metal, Dissonant Death Metal	The Erosion of Sanity (1993) #2107 From Wisdom to Hate (2001) #2181 Obscura (1998) #2691
20	Allegaeon 2008, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Apoptosis (2019) #1220 Proponent for Sentience (2016) #1310 Damnun (2022) #2331
21	Gorod 2005, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Jazz	Leading Vision (2006) #1608 Kiss the Freak (2017) [EP] Process of a New Decline (2009) #2123
22	Beyond Creation 2005, Canada Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	The Aura (2011) #674 Algorythm (2018) #2135 Earthborn Evolution (2014) #6260
23	Necrophagist 1992, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Epitaph (2004) #699 Onset of Putrefaction (1999) #982 Requiems of Festered Gore (1992) [Demo]
24	Defeated Sanity 1993, Germany Technical Brutal Death Metal	Chapters of Repugnance (2010) #1214 Psalms of the Moribund (2007) #2311 Passages Into Deformity (2013) #3005
25	Demilich Finland Technical Death Metal	Nespithe (1993) #241 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) #900 The Afterthought Ecstasy (2010) [EP]
27	Rings of Saturn 2009, United States Technical Deathcore	Lugal Ki En (2014) #930 Dingir (2012) #1800 Ultu Ulla (2017) #3084
28	Ikuinen Kaamos 1997, Finland Progressive Death Metal, Black Metal	The Forlorn (2006) #855 Closure (2008) [EP] #1446 Fall of Icons (2010) #1940
29	Infant Annihilator 2012, United States Slamming Brutal Deathcore, Technical Deathcore	The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch (2016) #1480 The Battle of Yaldabaoth (2019) #3895 The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution (2012) #7048
30	Arsis 2000, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	A Diamond for Disease (2005) [EP] #2035 We Are the Nightmare (2008) #5318 Starve for the Devil (2010) #5493
31	Exocrine 2013, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Maelstrom (2020) #4280 Molten Giant (2018) Legend (2024) #5555
32	Inferi 2005, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Revenant (2018) #1835 Vile Genesis (2021) #4849 The End of an Era \| Rebirth (2019) #8014
33	The Faceless 2004, United States Technical Deathcore, Technical Death Metal	Planetary Duality (2008) #5583 Autotheism (2012) #6019 Akeldama (2006)
34	Dan Swanö Sweden Technical Death Metal	Moontower (1999) #928
35	Spawn of Possession 2007, Sweden Technical Death Metal	Incurso (2012) #4924 Cabinet (2003) Noctambulant (2006) #7932
36	Cattle Decapitation 1996, United States Deathgrind, Death Metal, Goregrind	The Anthropocene Extinction (2015) #631 Monolith of Inhumanity (2012) #740 Medium Rarities (2018) [Compilation]
37	Psycroptic 1999, Australia Technical Death Metal	As the Kingdom Drowns (2018) (Ob)Servant (2008) #2772 The Scepter of the Ancients (2003) #5047
38	Wormed 1998, Spain Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Krighsu (2016) #1719 Exodromos (2013) #3006 Planisphærium (2003) #4689
39	Quo Vadis 1993, Canada Technical Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal	Day Into Night (2000) #3336 Defiant Imagination (2004) #3562 Defiant Indoctrination (2005) [Video]
40	Tribulation 2004, Sweden Death Metal, Gothic Metal	The Formulas of Death (2013) The Children of the Night (2015) #1574 Down Below (2018) #3686
41	Deeds of Flesh 1993, United States Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Path of the Weakening (1999) #1069 Portals to Canaan (2013) #2225 Trading Pieces (1996) #2591
42	!T.O.O.H.! 1993, Czech Republic Technical Death Metal, Deathgrind	Order and Punishment (2005) #1062 Pod vládou biče (2002) #2490 Democratic Solution (2013)
43	Hannes Grossmann Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	The Radial Covenant (2014) #4809 The Crypts of Sleep (2016) #5122 Wisdom of Echoes (2024) [EP] #7019
44	Augury 2002, Canada Technical Death Metal	Illusive Golden Age (2018) #2051 Concealed (2004) #7064 Fragmentary Evidence (2009) #8057
45	Brodequin 1998, United States Brutal Death Metal	Harbinger of Woe (2024) #2344 Instruments of Torture (2000) #3835 Festival of Death (2001) #7717
46	Ophidian I 2010, Iceland Technical Death Metal	Desolate (2021) #2376 Solvet Saeclum (2012) Demo (2011) [Demo]
47	Lorna Shore 2009, United States Symphonic Deathcore	...And I Return to Nothingness (2021) [EP] #1134 Pain Remains (2022) #3046 Immortal (2020) #3555
48	Sadist 1990, Italy Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Above the Light (1993) Tribe (1996) #5646 Season in Silence (2010)
49	Aborted 1995, Belgium Brutal Death Metal	Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done (2003) #244 Retrogore (2016) #1335 Global Flatline (2012) #3695
50	Cytotoxin 2010, Germany Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Radiophobia (2012) #1560 Gammageddon (2017) #4258 Plutonium Heaven (2011)

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