Best Technical Death Metal Bands

84 bands

Rank	Band / Formed / Genres	Albums
1	Death 1984, United States Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Symbolic (1995) #36 Human (1991) #56 Leprosy (1988) #75
2	Fleshgod Apocalypse 2007, Italy Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	King (2016) #162 The Fool (2016) [Single] Oracles (2009) #628
3	Cryptopsy 1992, Canada Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	None So Vile (1996) #32 Blasphemy Made Flesh (1994) #311 Cryptopsy (2012) #787
4	Nile 1993, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Annihilation of the Wicked (2005) #143 In Their Darkened Shrines (2002) #312 Black Seeds of Vengeance (2000) #902
5	Suffocation 1989, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Effigy of the Forgotten (1991) #149 Pierced From Within (1995) #223 Human Waste (1991) [EP] #2270
6	Cynic 1987, United States Progressive Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Rock	Focus (1993) #295 Traced in Air (2008) #732 Uroboric Forms - The Complete Demo Recordings (2017) [Compilation]
7	Obscura 2002, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Akróasis (2016) #168 Omnivium (2011) #758 Cosmogenesis (2009) #837
8	Hour of Penance 1999, Italy Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Sedition (2012) #337 The Vile Conception (2008) #1274 Paradogma (2010) #1331
9	Dying Fetus 1991, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Descend into Depravity (2009) #365 Killing on Adrenaline (1998) #1005 War of Attrition (2007) #1185
10	Fallujah 2007, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Deathcore	The Harvest Wombs (2011) #717 Nomadic (2013) [EP] #935 The Flesh Prevails (2014) #1107
11	Atheist 1988, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Unquestionable Presence (1991) #430 Piece of Time (1990) #1252 Jupiter (2010) #3751
12	Pestilence 1986, Netherlands Technical Death Metal, Thrash Metal	Consuming Impulse (1989) #799 Malleus Maleficarum (1988) #1082 Testimony of the Ancients (1991) #1812
13	Decapitated 1996, Poland Technical Death Metal	Carnival Is Forever (2011) #1360 Organic Hallucinosis (2006) #2520 Winds of Creation (2000) #2636
14	Origin 1997, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Antithesis (2008) #1293 Entity (2011) #1742 Echoes of Decimation (2005) #3803
15	Nocturnus 1987, United States Technical Death Metal	The Key (1990) #232 Thresholds (1992) #2033 Nocturnus (1993) [EP]
16	Archspire 2009, Canada Technical Death Metal	Bleed the Future (2021) #805 Relentless Mutation (2017) #898 The Lucid Collective (2014) #3172
17	Allegaeon 2008, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Proponent for Sentience (2016) #1253 Apoptosis (2019) #1614 Elements of the Infinite (2014) #2798
18	Rivers of Nihil 2008, United States Technical Death Metal	Where Owls Know My Name (2018) #1143 The Work (2021) #4643 Monarchy (2015) #5347
19	Gorod 2005, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Jazz	Leading Vision (2006) #991 Kiss the Freak (2017) [EP] Neurotripsicks (2005) #2418
20	Beyond Creation 2005, Canada Technical Death Metal, Progressive Death Metal	The Aura (2011) #904 Algorythm (2018) #2019 Earthborn Evolution (2014) #6556
21	Demilich Finland Technical Death Metal	Nespithe (1993) #197 The Four Instructive Tales... of Decomposition (1991) [Demo] Regurgitation of Blood (1991) [Demo]
22	Revocation 2006, United States Technical Thrash Metal, Technical Death Metal	Chaos of Forms (2011) #2472 Empire of the Obscene (2008) #2492 Revocation (2013) #3144
23	Gorguts 1989, Canada Technical Death Metal, Avant-garde Metal	Obscura (1998) #722 The Erosion of Sanity (1993) #1625 From Wisdom to Hate (2001) #3444
24	Necrophagist 1992, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Epitaph (2004) #968 Onset of Putrefaction (1999) #1845 Requiems of Festered Gore (1992) [Demo]
25	Defeated Sanity 1993, Germany Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Psalms of the Moribund (2007) #1632 Chapters of Repugnance (2010) #2214 Passages Into Deformity (2013) #2896
26	Job for a Cowboy 2003, United States Deathcore, Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Genesis (2007) #3214 Ruination (2009) #3535 Doom (2005) [EP] #4231
27	Bloodshot Dawn 2003, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Bloodshot Dawn (2012) #1502 Demons (2014) #1553 Reanimation (2018) #5575
28	Arsis 2000, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	A Diamond for Disease (2005) [EP] #1896 We Are the Nightmare (2008) #4323 Starve for the Devil (2010) #4472
29	Deeds of Flesh 1993, United States Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Path of the Weakening (1999) #1164 Portals to Canaan (2013) Inbreeding the Anthropophagi (1998) #3427
30	The Faceless 2004, United States Technical Deathcore, Technical Death Metal	Planetary Duality (2008) #4270 Autotheism (2012) #4294 Akeldama (2006)
31	Ulcerate 2000, New Zealand Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Shrines of Paralysis (2016) #1537 Stare into Death and Be Still (2020) #2110 Everything Is Fire (2009) #3887
32	Lykathea Aflame 1999, Czech Republic Technical Death Metal	Elvenefris (2000) #1132
33	Inferi 2005, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Revenant (2018) #1876 Vile Genesis (2021) #4898 The End of an Era \| Rebirth (2019) #5053
34	Fecundation 2014, Korea Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Cadaveric Rigdity + From Grave to Cradle (2015) #1504 Decomposition of Existence (2018) #2509 Morte Cerebral (2019) [EP]
35	Psycroptic 1999, Australia Technical Death Metal	As the Kingdom Drowns (2018) (Ob)Servant (2008) #2211 The Scepter of the Ancients (2003) #3343
36	First Fragment 2007, Canada Technical Death Metal	Dasein (2016) #520 Gloire Éternelle (2021) #4587 Le Serment de Tsion (2017) [Single]
37	Spawn of Possession 2007, Sweden Technical Death Metal	Incurso (2012) #3600 Cabinet (2003) Noctambulant (2006) #6474
38	Wormed 1998, Spain Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Krighsu (2016) Exodromos (2013) #2499 Planisphærium (2003)
39	Quo Vadis 1993, Canada Technical Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal	Defiant Imagination (2004) #2934 Day Into Night (2000) #3971 Defiant Indoctrination (2005) [Video]
40	Decrepit Birth 2001, United States Technical Death Metal	...And Time Begins (2003) #3649 Polarity (2010) #3927 Axis Mundi (2017) #3954

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