List of technical death metal bands explained

This is a list of technical death metal bands. Technical death metal (sometimes called tech-death) is a musical subgenre of death metal music that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures.

BandCountryFormedclass=unsortableNotes
7 Horns 7 EyesUSA2006[1]
AbnormalityUSA2005[2]
AbortedBelgium1995[3]
Abysmal DawnUSA2003
Abysmal TormentMalta2000
AeonSweden1999[4]
AnataSweden1993[5]
ArchspireCanada2009[6]
ArsisUSA2000[7]
As They SleepUSA2003[8]
AtheistUSA1984–1992, 1993–1994, 2006–present
AuguryCanada2001[9]
Becoming the ArchetypeUSA1999[10]
Beneath the MassacreCanada2004[11] [12]
Between the Buried and MeUSA2000–present[13] [14] [15] [16]
Beyond CreationCanada2005–present
The Black Dahlia MurderUSA2001-present
Blood IncantationUSA2011–present
Blotted ScienceUSA2005–present[17]
Born of OsirisUSA2003[18]
Brain DrillUSA2005[19] [20] [21]
Cannibal CorpseUSA1988[22] [23]
CapharnaumUSA1993–1999, 2003–2009[24]
CarcassUK1985–1996, 2007–present
Cephalic CarnageUSA1992[25]
Circle of ContemptFinland2006–present
The ContortionistUSA2007[26]
ContrarianUSA2012–present
CoprofagoChile1993[27]
Cryptic ShiftUK2013[28]
CryptopsyCanada1992[29] [30] [31]
CynicUSA1987–1994, 2006–present
DeadsquadIndonesia2006[32]
DeathUSA1984–1996, 1998–2001[33]
DecapitatedPoland1996[34]
Decrepit BirthUSA2001[35]
Deeds of FleshUSA1993
Defeated SanityGermany1994
DemilichFinland1990–1993, 2006, 2010, 2015–present
DesecravityJapan2007-present
Divine HeresyUSA2006
Dying FetusUSA1991[36]
EntheosUSA2015[37]
ExtolNorway1994[38]
FallujahUSA2007[39]
The FacelessUSA2004[40]
Fleshgod ApocalypseItaly2007
GojiraFrance1996[41]
GorodFrance1997
GorgutsCanada1989[42]
GrimazeBulgaria2013[43]
In BattleSweden1996[44]
Into the MoatUSA2001[45]
Knights of the AbyssUSA2005[46]
Lost SoulPoland1990–1995, 1997–present
MalignancyUSA1992
Man Must DieUK2002
MeshuggahSweden1987[47]
MonstrosityUSA1990
NecrophagistGermany1992[48]
NeuraxisCanada1994[49]
Ne ObliviscarisAustralia2003[50]
NileUSA1993[51]
NocturnusUSA1988[52]
ObscuraGermany2002
OppressorUSA1991
OriginUSA1990[53]
PersefoneAndorra2001[54]
PestilenceNetherlands1986[55]
PsycropticAustralia1999[56] [57] [58]
PyrrhonUSA2008
Quo VadisCanada1992
The Red ChordUSA1999[59]
RevocationUSA2006[60]
Rings of SaturnUSA2009[61]
Rivers of NihilUSA2009[62]
SadistItaly1991
SoreptionSweden2005
Spawn of PossessionSweden1997
SuffocationUSA1989[63]
SylosisUK2000
Through the Eyes of the DeadUSA2003
Trigger the BloodshedUK2006[64]
UlcerateNew Zealand2000
Visceral BleedingSweden1999
WormedSpain1998[65]
The Zenith PassageUSA2012

Notes and References

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