Best Technical Death Metal Bands

116 bands

Rank	Band / Formed / Genres	Albums
1	Death 1984, United States Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Symbolic (1995) #27 Human (1991) #46 Leprosy (1988) #79
2	Cryptopsy 1992, Canada Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	None So Vile (1996) #33 Blasphemy Made Flesh (1994) #278 Cryptopsy (2012) #682
3	Nile 1993, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Annihilation of the Wicked (2005) #209 In Their Darkened Shrines (2002) #294 Those Whom the Gods Detest (2009) #866
4	Fleshgod Apocalypse 2007, Italy Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	King (2016) #143 Oracles (2009) #545 Agony (2011) #561
5	Obscura 2002, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Akróasis (2016) #195 Cosmogenesis (2009) #919 Omnivium (2011) #1019
6	Dying Fetus 1991, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Descend into Depravity (2009) #337 Killing on Adrenaline (1998) #1097 War of Attrition (2007) #1256
7	Atheist 1988, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Unquestionable Presence (1991) #387 Piece of Time (1990) #921 Elements (1993) #3354
8	Fallujah 2007, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Deathcore	The Harvest Wombs (2011) #889 Nomadic (2013) [EP] #1034 The Flesh Prevails (2014) #1415
9	Nocturnus 1987, United States Technical Death Metal	The Key (1990) #167 Thresholds (1992) #1935 Nocturnus (1993) [EP]
10	Decapitated 1996, Poland Technical Death Metal	Cancer Culture (2022) #1469 Organic Hallucinosis (2006) #2499 Carnival Is Forever (2011) #2786
11	Cynic 1987, United States Progressive Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Rock	Focus (1993) #324 Traced in Air (2008) #1132 Uroboric Forms - The Complete Demo Recordings (2017) [Compilation]
12	Revocation 2006, United States Technical Thrash Metal, Technical Death Metal	Empire of the Obscene (2008) #1774 Chaos of Forms (2011) #2280 Netherheaven (2022) #2631
13	Origin 1997, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Antithesis (2008) #794 Entity (2011) #874 Unparalleled Universe (2017) #2156
14	Archspire 2009, Canada Technical Death Metal	Bleed the Future (2021) #521 Relentless Mutation (2017) #1315 The Lucid Collective (2014) #2949
15	Rivers of Nihil 2008, United States Technical Death Metal	Where Owls Know My Name (2018) #883 The Work (2021) #2954 Monarchy (2015) #5665
16	Hour of Penance 1999, Italy Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Sedition (2012) #409 The Vile Conception (2008) #1898 Paradogma (2010) #2226
17	Suffocation 1989, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Pierced From Within (1995) #190 Effigy of the Forgotten (1991) #260 Hymns from the Apocrypha (2023) #1487
18	Ikuinen Kaamos 1997, Finland Progressive Death Metal, Black Metal	The Forlorn (2006) #869 Closure (2008) [EP] #1384 Fall of Icons (2010) #1891
19	Allegaeon 2008, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Apoptosis (2019) #1184 Proponent for Sentience (2016) #1242 Damnun (2022) #2085
20	Gorod 2005, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Jazz	Leading Vision (2006) #1550 Kiss the Freak (2017) [EP] Aethra (2018) #1670
21	Beyond Creation 2005, Canada Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	The Aura (2011) #651 Algorythm (2018) #2264 Earthborn Evolution (2014) #5866
22	Gorguts 1989, Canada Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Avant-garde Metal, Dissonant Death Metal	Obscura (1998) #1740 The Erosion of Sanity (1993) #2066 From Wisdom to Hate (2001) #2405
23	Demilich Finland Technical Death Metal	Nespithe (1993) #233 The Four Instructive Tales... of Decomposition (1991) [Demo] Regurgitation of Blood (1991) [Demo]
24	Defeated Sanity 1993, Germany Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Chapters of Repugnance (2010) #1502 Psalms of the Moribund (2007) #2572 Passages Into Deformity (2013) #2851
25	Necrophagist 1992, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Epitaph (2004) #1046 Onset of Putrefaction (1999) #2091 Requiems of Festered Gore (1992) [Demo]
26	Rings of Saturn 2009, United States Technical Deathcore	Lugal Ki En (2014) #891 Dingir (2012) #1741 Ultu Ulla (2017) #3583
27	First Fragment 2007, Canada Technical Death Metal	Dasein (2016) #214 Gloire Éternelle (2021) #963 The Afterthought Ecstasy (2010) [EP]
28	Ulcerate 2000, New Zealand Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Stare into Death and Be Still (2020) #712 Shrines of Paralysis (2016) #2155 Everything Is Fire (2009) #3246
29	Infant Annihilator 2012, United States Slamming Brutal Deathcore, Technical Deathcore	The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch (2016) #1411 The Battle of Yaldabaoth (2019) #4975 The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution (2012) #6623
30	Arsis 2000, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	A Diamond for Disease (2005) [EP] #1978 We Are the Nightmare (2008) #4995 Starve for the Devil (2010) #5155
31	Exocrine 2013, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Maelstrom (2020) #4059 The Hybrid Suns (2022) #4607 Molten Giant (2018)
32	Inferi 2005, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Revenant (2018) #2542 Vile Genesis (2021) #5619 The End of an Era \| Rebirth (2019) #7484
33	The Faceless 2004, United States Technical Deathcore, Technical Death Metal	Planetary Duality (2008) #5236 Autotheism (2012) #5659 Akeldama (2006)
34	Dan Swanö Sweden Technical Death Metal	Moontower (1999) #959
35	Spawn of Possession 2007, Sweden Technical Death Metal	Incurso (2012) #4631 Cabinet (2003) Noctambulant (2006) #7414
36	Psycroptic 1999, Australia Technical Death Metal	As the Kingdom Drowns (2018) (Ob)Servant (2008) #2645 The Scepter of the Ancients (2003) #4740
37	!T.O.O.H.! 1993, Czech Republic Technical Death Metal, Deathgrind	Order and Punishment (2005) #1020 Pod vládou biče (2002) #2406 Democratic Solution (2013)
38	Wormed 1998, Spain Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Krighsu (2016) #1665 Exodromos (2013) #2852 Planisphærium (2003) #4414
39	Quo Vadis 1993, Canada Technical Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal	Day Into Night (2000) #3174 Defiant Imagination (2004) #3363 Defiant Indoctrination (2005) [Video]
40	Cattle Decapitation 1996, United States Deathgrind, Death Metal, Goregrind	Monolith of Inhumanity (2012) #559 The Anthropocene Extinction (2015) #683 Medium Rarities (2018) [Compilation]
41	Deeds of Flesh 1993, United States Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Path of the Weakening (1999) #1016 Portals to Canaan (2013) #2143 Trading Pieces (1996) #2803
42	Tribulation 2004, Sweden Death Metal, Gothic Metal	The Formulas of Death (2013) The Children of the Night (2015) #1870 Down Below (2018) #4236
43	Augury 2002, Canada Technical Death Metal	Illusive Golden Age (2018) #1283 Concealed (2004) #6633 Fragmentary Evidence (2009) #7526
44	Ophidian I 2010, Iceland Technical Death Metal	Desolate (2021) #2298 Solvet Saeclum (2012) Demo (2011) [Demo]
45	Hannes Grossmann Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Wisdom of Echoes (2024) [EP] The Radial Covenant (2014) #4004 The Crypts of Sleep (2016) #4817
46	Lorna Shore 2009, United States Symphonic Deathcore	...And I Return to Nothingness (2021) [EP] #1108 Pain Remains (2022) #2717 Immortal (2020) #3357
47	Sadist 1990, Italy Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Above the Light (1993) Tribe (1996) #5295 Season in Silence (2010)
48	Aborted 1995, Belgium Brutal Death Metal	Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done (2003) #262 Retrogore (2016) #1597 Global Flatline (2012) #3502
49	Cytotoxin 2010, Germany Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Radiophobia (2012) #1505 Gammageddon (2017) #4039 Plutonium Heaven (2011)
50	Job for a Cowboy 2003, United States Deathcore, Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Moon Healer (2024) #4579 Ruination (2009) #4588 Genesis (2007) #5397

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