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) #19 Human (1991) #35 Leprosy (1988) #60
2	Cryptopsy 1992, Canada Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	None So Vile (1996) #33 Blasphemy Made Flesh (1994) #284 Cryptopsy (2012) #744
3	Nile 1993, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Annihilation of the Wicked (2005) #263 In Their Darkened Shrines (2002) #350 Those Whom the Gods Detest (2009) #786
4	Fleshgod Apocalypse 2007, Italy Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	King (2016) #152 Oracles (2009) #558 Agony (2011) #559
5	Obscura 2002, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Akróasis (2016) #219 Cosmogenesis (2009) #944 Omnivium (2011) #1056
6	Dying Fetus 1991, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Descend into Depravity (2009) #330 Killing on Adrenaline (1998) #830 Destroy the Opposition (2000) #1224
7	Atheist 1988, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Unquestionable Presence (1991) #389 Piece of Time (1990) #1053 Elements (1993) #3503
8	Decapitated 1996, Poland Technical Death Metal	Cancer Culture (2022) #1524 Winds of Creation (2000) #2125 Carnival Is Forever (2011) #2884
9	Cynic 1987, United States Progressive Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Rock	Focus (1993) #365 Traced in Air (2008) #1172 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] #1071 The Flesh Prevails (2014) #1477
11	Nocturnus 1987, United States Technical Death Metal	The Key (1990) #196 Thresholds (1992) #1977 Nocturnus (1993) [EP]
12	Archspire 2009, Canada Technical Death Metal	Bleed the Future (2021) #477 Relentless Mutation (2017) #1025 The Lucid Collective (2014) #3055
13	Revocation 2006, United States Technical Thrash Metal, Technical Death Metal	Empire of the Obscene (2008) #1815 Chaos of Forms (2011) #2329 Netherheaven (2022) #2529
14	Origin 1997, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Antithesis (2008) #843 Entity (2011) #1188 Unparalleled Universe (2017) #2216
15	Suffocation 1989, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Pierced From Within (1995) #173 Effigy of the Forgotten (1991) #242 Human Waste (1991) [EP] #1929
16	Ulcerate 2000, New Zealand Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Stare into Death and Be Still (2020) #457 Cutting the Throat of God (2024) #695 Shrines of Paralysis (2016) #1648
17	Hour of Penance 1999, Italy Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Sedition (2012) #437 The Vile Conception (2008) #1598 Paradogma (2010) #2277
18	Rivers of Nihil 2008, United States Technical Death Metal	Where Owls Know My Name (2018) #907 The Work (2021) #3059 Monarchy (2015) #5917
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) #2158 Obscura (1998) #2620
20	Allegaeon 2008, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Apoptosis (2019) #1231 Proponent for Sentience (2016) #1304 Damnun (2022) #2299
21	Gorod 2005, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Jazz	Leading Vision (2006) #1599 Kiss the Freak (2017) [EP] Process of a New Decline (2009) #2097
22	Beyond Creation 2005, Canada Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	The Aura (2011) #671 Algorythm (2018) #2112 Earthborn Evolution (2014) #6126
23	Necrophagist 1992, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Epitaph (2004) #793 Onset of Putrefaction (1999) #1107 Requiems of Festered Gore (1992) [Demo]
24	Defeated Sanity 1993, Germany Technical Brutal Death Metal	Chapters of Repugnance (2010) #1551 Psalms of the Moribund (2007) #2279 Passages Into Deformity (2013) #2959
25	Demilich Finland Technical Death Metal	Nespithe (1993) #239 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) #776 The Afterthought Ecstasy (2010) [EP]
27	Rings of Saturn 2009, United States Technical Deathcore	Lugal Ki En (2014) #923 Dingir (2012) #1784 Ultu Ulla (2017) #3044
28	Ikuinen Kaamos 1997, Finland Progressive Death Metal, Black Metal	The Forlorn (2006) #848 Closure (2008) [EP] #1436 Fall of Icons (2010) #1931
29	Infant Annihilator 2012, United States Slamming Brutal Deathcore, Technical Deathcore	The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch (2016) #1466 The Battle of Yaldabaoth (2019) #5193 The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution (2012) #6910
30	Arsis 2000, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	A Diamond for Disease (2005) [EP] #2018 We Are the Nightmare (2008) #5219 Starve for the Devil (2010) #5393
31	Exocrine 2013, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Maelstrom (2020) #4201 The Hybrid Suns (2022) #4792 Molten Giant (2018)
32	Inferi 2005, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Revenant (2018) #2613 Vile Genesis (2021) #5865 The End of an Era \| Rebirth (2019) #7840
33	The Faceless 2004, United States Technical Deathcore, Technical Death Metal	Planetary Duality (2008) #5471 Autotheism (2012) #5912 Akeldama (2006)
34	Dan Swanö Sweden Technical Death Metal	Moontower (1999) #921
35	Spawn of Possession 2007, Sweden Technical Death Metal	Incurso (2012) #4821 Cabinet (2003) Noctambulant (2006) #7762
36	Psycroptic 1999, Australia Technical Death Metal	As the Kingdom Drowns (2018) (Ob)Servant (2008) #2733 The Scepter of the Ancients (2003) #4945
37	Cattle Decapitation 1996, United States Deathgrind, Death Metal, Goregrind	Monolith of Inhumanity (2012) #537 The Anthropocene Extinction (2015) #631 Medium Rarities (2018) [Compilation]
38	!T.O.O.H.! 1993, Czech Republic Technical Death Metal, Deathgrind	Order and Punishment (2005) #1057 Pod vládou biče (2002) #2465 Democratic Solution (2013)
39	Wormed 1998, Spain Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Krighsu (2016) #1714 Exodromos (2013) #2960 Planisphærium (2003) #4583
40	Quo Vadis 1993, Canada Technical Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal	Day Into Night (2000) #3298 Defiant Imagination (2004) #3513 Defiant Indoctrination (2005) [Video]
41	Tribulation 2004, Sweden Death Metal, Gothic Metal	The Formulas of Death (2013) The Children of the Night (2015) #1565 Down Below (2018) #3643
42	Deeds of Flesh 1993, United States Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Path of the Weakening (1999) #1067 Portals to Canaan (2013) #2201 Trading Pieces (1996) #2559
43	Hannes Grossmann Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	The Radial Covenant (2014) #4715 The Crypts of Sleep (2016) #5024 Wisdom of Echoes (2024) [EP] #6378
44	Augury 2002, Canada Technical Death Metal	Illusive Golden Age (2018) #2033 Concealed (2004) #6924 Fragmentary Evidence (2009) #7883
45	Brodequin 1998, United States Brutal Death Metal	Harbinger of Woe (2024) #2311 Instruments of Torture (2000) #3381 Festival of Death (2001) #7335
46	Ophidian I 2010, Iceland Technical Death Metal	Desolate (2021) #2345 Solvet Saeclum (2012) Demo (2011) [Demo]
47	Lorna Shore 2009, United States Symphonic Deathcore	...And I Return to Nothingness (2021) [EP] #1189 Pain Remains (2022) #3003 Immortal (2020) #3507
48	Sadist 1990, Italy Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Above the Light (1993) Tribe (1996) #5533 Season in Silence (2010)
49	Aborted 1995, Belgium Brutal Death Metal	Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done (2003) #256 Retrogore (2016) #1326 Global Flatline (2012) #3651
50	Cytotoxin 2010, Germany Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Radiophobia (2012) #1553 Gammageddon (2017) #4180 Plutonium Heaven (2011)

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