Best Technical Death Metal Bands

Rank	Band / Formed / Genres	Albums
1	Death 1984, United States Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Symbolic (1995) #33 Human (1991) #57 Leprosy (1988) #82
2	Fleshgod Apocalypse 2007, Italy Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	King (2016) #163 Oracles (2009) #581 The Fool (2016) [Single]
3	Cryptopsy 1992, Canada Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	None So Vile (1996) #27 Blasphemy Made Flesh (1994) #288 Cryptopsy (2012) #636
4	Nile 1993, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Annihilation of the Wicked (2005) #135 In Their Darkened Shrines (2002) #292 Black Seeds of Vengeance (2000) #833
5	Suffocation 1989, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Effigy of the Forgotten (1991) #125 Pierced From Within (1995) #186 ...Of the Dark Light (2017) #2905
6	Cynic 1987, United States Progressive Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Rock	Focus (1993) #227 Traced in Air (2008) #692 Uroboric Forms - The Complete Demo Recordings (2017) [Compilation]
7	Obscura 2002, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Akróasis (2016) #179 Omnivium (2011) #804 Cosmogenesis (2009) #884
8	Hour of Penance 1999, Italy Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Sedition (2012) #355 The Vile Conception (2008) #1053 Paradogma (2010) #1246
9	Dying Fetus 1991, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Descend into Depravity (2009) #408 Killing on Adrenaline (1998) #754 Destroy the Opposition (2000) #1040
10	Fallujah 2007, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Deathcore	The Harvest Wombs (2011) #670 Nomadic (2013) [EP] #874 The Flesh Prevails (2014) #1042
11	Pestilence 1986, Netherlands Technical Death Metal	Consuming Impulse (1989) #618 Malleus Maleficarum (1988) #909 Testimony of the Ancients (1991) #2481
12	Atheist 1988, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Unquestionable Presence (1991) #561 Piece of Time (1990) #1362 Jupiter (2010) #3556
13	Origin 1997, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Entity (2011) #1173 Antithesis (2008) #1209 Echoes of Decimation (2005) #3846
14	Nocturnus 1987, United States Technical Death Metal	The Key (1990) #212 Thresholds (1992) #1915 Nocturnus (1993) [EP]
15	Decapitated 1996, Poland Technical Death Metal	Carnival Is Forever (2011) #1280 Organic Hallucinosis (2006) #3132 Winds of Creation (2000) #4003
16	Beyond Creation 2005, Canada Technical Death Metal, Progressive Death Metal	The Aura (2011) #951 Algorythm (2018) #1746 Earthborn Evolution (2014) #6175
17	Rivers of Nihil 2008, United States Technical Death Metal	Where Owls Know My Name (2018) #955 Monarchy (2015) #5045 Heirarchy (2010) [EP]
18	Demilich Finland Technical Death Metal	Nespithe (1993) #196 The Four Instructive Tales... of Decomposition (1991) [Demo] Regurgitation of Blood (1991) [Demo]
19	Revocation 2006, United States Technical Thrash Metal, Technical Death Metal	Empire of the Obscene (2008) #2345 Chaos of Forms (2011) #2641 Revocation (2013) #2942
20	Gorod 2005, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Jazz	Leading Vision (2006) #1293 Kiss the Freak (2017) [EP] Neurotripsicks (2005) #2280
21	Allegaeon 2008, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Proponent for Sentience (2016) #1457 Elements of the Infinite (2014) #2626 Apoptosis (2019) #3189
22	Gorguts 1989, Canada Technical Death Metal, Avant-garde Metal	Obscura (1998) #679 The Erosion of Sanity (1993) #1539 From Wisdom to Hate (2001) #3241
23	Necrophagist 1992, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Epitaph (2004) #927 Onset of Putrefaction (1999) #1751 Requiems of Festered Gore (1992) [Demo]
24	Bloodshot Dawn 2003, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Bloodshot Dawn (2012) #1407 Demons (2014) #1455 Reanimation (2018) #4252
25	Job for a Cowboy 2003, United States Deathcore, Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Genesis (2007) #3016 Ruination (2009) #3324 Doom (2005) [EP] #4005
26	Defeated Sanity 1993, Germany Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Psalms of the Moribund (2007) #1547 Chapters of Repugnance (2010) #2100 Passages Into Deformity (2013) #2732
27	Arsis 2000, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	A Diamond for Disease (2005) [EP] #1799 We Are the Nightmare (2008) #4083 Starve for the Devil (2010) #4218
28	Archspire 2009, Canada Technical Death Metal	Relentless Mutation (2017) #967 The Lucid Collective (2014) #5719 All Shall Align (2011)
29	Deeds of Flesh 1993, United States Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Path of the Weakening (1999) #1418 Portals to Canaan (2013) Inbreeding the Anthropophagi (1998) #3220
30	Lykathea Aflame 1999, Czech Republic Technical Death Metal	Elvenefris (2000) #1064
31	The Faceless 2004, United States Technical Deathcore, Technical Death Metal	Planetary Duality (2008) #3814 Autotheism (2012) #4058 In Becoming a Ghost (2017) #6684
32	Psycroptic 1999, Australia Technical Death Metal	As the Kingdom Drowns (2018) (Ob)Servant (2008) #2097 The Scepter of the Ancients (2003) #3134
33	Fecundation 2014, Korea Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Cadaveric Rigdity + From Grave to Cradle (2015) #1409 Decomposition of Existence (2018) #2362 Congenital Deformity (2016) [EP]
34	Spawn of Possession 2007, Sweden Technical Death Metal	Incurso (2012) #3036 Cabinet (2003) Noctambulant (2006) #6094
35	Wormed 1998, Spain Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Krighsu (2016) Exodromos (2013) #2353 Planisphærium (2003)
36	Ulcerate 2000, New Zealand Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Shrines of Paralysis (2016) #1440 Everything Is Fire (2009) #3664 Stare into Death and Be Still (2020)
37	Quo Vadis 1993, Canada Technical Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal	Defiant Imagination (2004) #2769 Day Into Night (2000) #3746 Defiant Indoctrination (2005) [Video]
38	Decrepit Birth 2001, United States Technical Death Metal	...And Time Begins (2003) #3437 Polarity (2010) #3701 Axis Mundi (2017) #3728
39	Internal Suffering 1996, Colombia Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Supreme Knowledge Domain (1999) Chaotic Matrix (2002) #4421 Choronzonic Force Domination (2004) #5012
40	Anomalous United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Ohmnivalent (2011) #1926 Cognitive Dissonance (2006) [EP] #7149

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