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) #36 Leprosy (1988) #65
2	Cryptopsy 1992, Canada Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	None So Vile (1996) #32 Blasphemy Made Flesh (1994) #277 Cryptopsy (2012) #742
3	Nile 1993, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Annihilation of the Wicked (2005) #199 In Their Darkened Shrines (2002) #348 Those Whom the Gods Detest (2009) #786
4	Fleshgod Apocalypse 2007, Italy Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	King (2016) #151 Agony (2011) #530 Oracles (2009) #565
5	Obscura 2002, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Akróasis (2016) #218 Cosmogenesis (2009) #938 Omnivium (2011) #1046
6	Dying Fetus 1991, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Descend into Depravity (2009) #328 Killing on Adrenaline (1998) #1003 Destroy the Opposition (2000) #1199
7	Atheist 1988, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Unquestionable Presence (1991) #392 Piece of Time (1990) #1044 Elements (1993) #3476
8	Decapitated 1996, Poland Technical Death Metal	Cancer Culture (2022) #1509 Winds of Creation (2000) #2114 Carnival Is Forever (2011) #2868
9	Cynic 1987, United States Progressive Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Rock	Focus (1993) #363 Traced in Air (2008) #1161 Uroboric Forms - The Complete Demo Recordings (2017) [Compilation]
10	Fallujah 2007, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Deathcore	The Harvest Wombs (2011) #916 Nomadic (2013) [EP] #1061 The Flesh Prevails (2014) #1464
11	Nocturnus 1987, United States Technical Death Metal	The Key (1990) #193 Thresholds (1992) #1961 Nocturnus (1993) [EP]
12	Archspire 2009, Canada Technical Death Metal	Bleed the Future (2021) #471 Relentless Mutation (2017) #1015 The Lucid Collective (2014) #3038
13	Revocation 2006, United States Technical Thrash Metal, Technical Death Metal	Empire of the Obscene (2008) #1801 Netherheaven (2022) #2097 Chaos of Forms (2011) #2310
14	Origin 1997, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Antithesis (2008) #839 Entity (2011) #1179 Unparalleled Universe (2017) #2199
15	Suffocation 1989, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Pierced From Within (1995) #170 Effigy of the Forgotten (1991) #272 Human Waste (1991) [EP] #1912
16	Hour of Penance 1999, Italy Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Sedition (2012) #431 The Vile Conception (2008) #1587 Paradogma (2010) #2263
17	Rivers of Nihil 2008, United States Technical Death Metal	Where Owls Know My Name (2018) #902 The Work (2021) #3042 Monarchy (2015) #5856
18	Allegaeon 2008, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Apoptosis (2019) #1225 Proponent for Sentience (2016) #1292 Damnun (2022) #2120
19	Gorod 2005, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Jazz	Leading Vision (2006) #1588 Kiss the Freak (2017) [EP] Process of a New Decline (2009) #2089
20	Beyond Creation 2005, Canada Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	The Aura (2011) #667 Algorythm (2018) #2103 Earthborn Evolution (2014) #6064
21	Gorguts 1989, Canada Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Avant-garde Metal, Dissonant Death Metal	The Erosion of Sanity (1993) #1895 From Wisdom to Hate (2001) #2443 Obscura (1998) #2807
22	Ulcerate 2000, New Zealand Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Stare into Death and Be Still (2020) #449 Shrines of Paralysis (2016) #1634 Cutting the Throat of God (2024) #1679
23	Defeated Sanity 1993, Germany Technical Brutal Death Metal	Chapters of Repugnance (2010) #1541 Psalms of the Moribund (2007) #2264 Passages Into Deformity (2013) #2942
24	Demilich Finland Technical Death Metal	Nespithe (1993) #235 The Four Instructive Tales... of Decomposition (1991) [Demo] Regurgitation of Blood (1991) [Demo]
25	Necrophagist 1992, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Epitaph (2004) #791 Onset of Putrefaction (1999) #1387 Requiems of Festered Gore (1992) [Demo]
26	Rings of Saturn 2009, United States Technical Deathcore	Lugal Ki En (2014) #917 Dingir (2012) #1768 Ultu Ulla (2017) #3029
27	First Fragment 2007, Canada Technical Death Metal	Dasein (2016) #220 Gloire Éternelle (2021) #989 The Afterthought Ecstasy (2010) [EP]
28	Ikuinen Kaamos 1997, Finland Progressive Death Metal, Black Metal	The Forlorn (2006) #843 Closure (2008) [EP] #1424 Fall of Icons (2010) #1915
29	Infant Annihilator 2012, United States Slamming Brutal Deathcore, Technical Deathcore	The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch (2016) #1454 The Battle of Yaldabaoth (2019) #5125 The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution (2012) #6840
30	Arsis 2000, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	A Diamond for Disease (2005) [EP] #2001 We Are the Nightmare (2008) #5148 Starve for the Devil (2010) #5326
31	Exocrine 2013, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Maelstrom (2020) #4165 The Hybrid Suns (2022) #4736 Molten Giant (2018)
32	Inferi 2005, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Revenant (2018) #2597 Vile Genesis (2021) #5803 The End of an Era \| Rebirth (2019) #7760
33	The Faceless 2004, United States Technical Deathcore, Technical Death Metal	Planetary Duality (2008) #5404 Autotheism (2012) #5851 Akeldama (2006)
34	Dan Swanö Sweden Technical Death Metal	Moontower (1999) #915
35	Spawn of Possession 2007, Sweden Technical Death Metal	Incurso (2012) #4762 Cabinet (2003) Noctambulant (2006) #7684
36	Psycroptic 1999, Australia Technical Death Metal	As the Kingdom Drowns (2018) (Ob)Servant (2008) #2717 The Scepter of the Ancients (2003) #4886
37	!T.O.O.H.! 1993, Czech Republic Technical Death Metal, Deathgrind	Order and Punishment (2005) #1047 Pod vládou biče (2002) #2445 Democratic Solution (2013)
38	Wormed 1998, Spain Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Krighsu (2016) #1704 Exodromos (2013) #2943 Planisphærium (2003) #4527
39	Quo Vadis 1993, Canada Technical Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal	Day Into Night (2000) #3272 Defiant Imagination (2004) #3484 Defiant Indoctrination (2005) [Video]
40	Cattle Decapitation 1996, United States Deathgrind, Death Metal, Goregrind	Monolith of Inhumanity (2012) #513 The Anthropocene Extinction (2015) #626 Medium Rarities (2018) [Compilation]
41	Deeds of Flesh 1993, United States Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Path of the Weakening (1999) #1057 Portals to Canaan (2013) #2184 Trading Pieces (1996) #2543
42	Tribulation 2004, Sweden Death Metal, Gothic Metal	The Formulas of Death (2013) The Children of the Night (2015) #1556 Down Below (2018) #3604
43	Hannes Grossmann Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Wisdom of Echoes (2024) [EP] #4026 The Radial Covenant (2014) #4661 The Crypts of Sleep (2016) #4963
44	Augury 2002, Canada Technical Death Metal	Illusive Golden Age (2018) #2017 Concealed (2004) #6853 Fragmentary Evidence (2009) #7804
45	Ophidian I 2010, Iceland Technical Death Metal	Desolate (2021) #2326 Solvet Saeclum (2012) Demo (2011) [Demo]
46	Lorna Shore 2009, United States Symphonic Deathcore	...And I Return to Nothingness (2021) [EP] #1180 Pain Remains (2022) #2985 Immortal (2020) #3478
47	Brodequin 1998, United States Brutal Death Metal	Harbinger of Woe (2024) #3299 Instruments of Torture (2000) #3353 Festival of Death (2001) #7260
48	Sadist 1990, Italy Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Above the Light (1993) Tribe (1996) #5467 Season in Silence (2010)
49	Aborted 1995, Belgium Brutal Death Metal	Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done (2003) #250 Retrogore (2016) #1313 Global Flatline (2012) #3612
50	Cytotoxin 2010, Germany Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Radiophobia (2012) #1543 Gammageddon (2017) #4145 Plutonium Heaven (2011)

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