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) #24 Human (1991) #43 Leprosy (1988) #70
2	Cryptopsy 1992, Canada Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	None So Vile (1996) #31 Blasphemy Made Flesh (1994) #281 Cryptopsy (2012) #765
3	Nile 1993, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Annihilation of the Wicked (2005) #209 In Their Darkened Shrines (2002) #347 Those Whom the Gods Detest (2009) #880
4	Fleshgod Apocalypse 2007, Italy Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	King (2016) #146 Oracles (2009) #553 Agony (2011) #571
5	Obscura 2002, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Akróasis (2016) #197 Cosmogenesis (2009) #997 Omnivium (2011) #1031
6	Dying Fetus 1991, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Descend into Depravity (2009) #319 Killing on Adrenaline (1998) #978 War of Attrition (2007) #1193
7	Atheist 1988, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Unquestionable Presence (1991) #396 Piece of Time (1990) #930 Elements (1993) #3394
8	Cynic 1987, United States Progressive Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Rock	Focus (1993) #364 Traced in Air (2008) #1145 Uroboric Forms - The Complete Demo Recordings (2017) [Compilation]
9	Decapitated 1996, Poland Technical Death Metal	Cancer Culture (2022) #1483 Winds of Creation (2000) #2085 Organic Hallucinosis (2006) #2513
10	Fallujah 2007, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Deathcore	The Harvest Wombs (2011) #900 Nomadic (2013) [EP] #1049 The Flesh Prevails (2014) #1433
11	Nocturnus 1987, United States Technical Death Metal	The Key (1990) #189 Thresholds (1992) #1938 Nocturnus (1993) [EP]
12	Archspire 2009, Canada Technical Death Metal	Bleed the Future (2021) #467 Relentless Mutation (2017) #1229 The Lucid Collective (2014) #2976
13	Revocation 2006, United States Technical Thrash Metal, Technical Death Metal	Empire of the Obscene (2008) #1772 Chaos of Forms (2011) #2285 Netherheaven (2022) #2648
14	Origin 1997, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Antithesis (2008) #812 Entity (2011) #887 Unparalleled Universe (2017) #2166
15	Suffocation 1989, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Pierced From Within (1995) #193 Effigy of the Forgotten (1991) #271 Hymns from the Apocrypha (2023) #1484
16	Rivers of Nihil 2008, United States Technical Death Metal	Where Owls Know My Name (2018) #884 The Work (2021) #2981 Monarchy (2015) #5748
17	Hour of Penance 1999, Italy Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Sedition (2012) #424 The Vile Conception (2008) #1897 Paradogma (2010) #2236
18	Ikuinen Kaamos 1997, Finland Progressive Death Metal, Black Metal	The Forlorn (2006) #883 Closure (2008) [EP] #1397 Fall of Icons (2010) #1889
19	Allegaeon 2008, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Apoptosis (2019) #1198 Proponent for Sentience (2016) #1263 Damnun (2022) #2092
20	Gorod 2005, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Jazz	Leading Vision (2006) #1562 Kiss the Freak (2017) [EP] Process of a New Decline (2009) #3498
21	Beyond Creation 2005, Canada Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	The Aura (2011) #659 Algorythm (2018) #2075 Earthborn Evolution (2014) #5950
22	Gorguts 1989, Canada Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Avant-garde Metal, Dissonant Death Metal	The Erosion of Sanity (1993) #2071 From Wisdom to Hate (2001) #2413 Obscura (1998) #2749
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) #1517 Psalms of the Moribund (2007) #2588 Passages Into Deformity (2013) #2881
25	Necrophagist 1992, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Epitaph (2004) #777 Onset of Putrefaction (1999) #2100 Requiems of Festered Gore (1992) [Demo]
26	Ulcerate 2000, New Zealand Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Stare into Death and Be Still (2020) #427 Shrines of Paralysis (2016) #2165 Everything Is Fire (2009) #2487
27	Rings of Saturn 2009, United States Technical Deathcore	Lugal Ki En (2014) #901 Dingir (2012) #1739 Ultu Ulla (2017) #2966
28	First Fragment 2007, Canada Technical Death Metal	Dasein (2016) #217 Gloire Éternelle (2021) #975 The Afterthought Ecstasy (2010) [EP]
29	Infant Annihilator 2012, United States Slamming Brutal Deathcore, Technical Deathcore	The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch (2016) #1425 The Battle of Yaldabaoth (2019) #5042 The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution (2012) #6711
30	Arsis 2000, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	A Diamond for Disease (2005) [EP] #1980 We Are the Nightmare (2008) #5063 Starve for the Devil (2010) #5232
31	Exocrine 2013, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Maelstrom (2020) #4099 The Hybrid Suns (2022) #4654 Molten Giant (2018)
32	Inferi 2005, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Revenant (2018) #2559 Vile Genesis (2021) #5697 The End of an Era \| Rebirth (2019) #7584
33	The Faceless 2004, United States Technical Deathcore, Technical Death Metal	Planetary Duality (2008) #5311 Autotheism (2012) #5742 Akeldama (2006)
34	Dan Swanö Sweden Technical Death Metal	Moontower (1999) #971
35	Spawn of Possession 2007, Sweden Technical Death Metal	Incurso (2012) #4679 Cabinet (2003) Noctambulant (2006) #7515
36	Psycroptic 1999, Australia Technical Death Metal	As the Kingdom Drowns (2018) (Ob)Servant (2008) #2663 The Scepter of the Ancients (2003) #4795
37	!T.O.O.H.! 1993, Czech Republic Technical Death Metal, Deathgrind	Order and Punishment (2005) #1032 Pod vládou biče (2002) #2414 Democratic Solution (2013)
38	Wormed 1998, Spain Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Krighsu (2016) #1671 Exodromos (2013) #2882 Planisphærium (2003) #4463
39	Quo Vadis 1993, Canada Technical Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal	Day Into Night (2000) #3201 Defiant Imagination (2004) #3404 Defiant Indoctrination (2005) [Video]
40	Cattle Decapitation 1996, United States Deathgrind, Death Metal, Goregrind	The Anthropocene Extinction (2015) #611 Monolith of Inhumanity (2012) #613 Medium Rarities (2018) [Compilation]
41	Deeds of Flesh 1993, United States Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Path of the Weakening (1999) #1047 Portals to Canaan (2013) #2151 Trading Pieces (1996) #2515
42	Tribulation 2004, Sweden Death Metal, Gothic Metal	The Children of the Night (2015) #1534 The Formulas of Death (2013) Where the Gloom Becomes Sound (2021) #3818
43	Hannes Grossmann Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Wisdom of Echoes (2024) [EP] #1738 The Radial Covenant (2014) #4044 The Crypts of Sleep (2016) #4872
44	Augury 2002, Canada Technical Death Metal	Illusive Golden Age (2018) #1998 Concealed (2004) #6724 Fragmentary Evidence (2009) #7628
45	Ophidian I 2010, Iceland Technical Death Metal	Desolate (2021) #2303 Solvet Saeclum (2012) Demo (2011) [Demo]
46	Lorna Shore 2009, United States Symphonic Deathcore	...And I Return to Nothingness (2021) [EP] #1249 Pain Remains (2022) #2991 Immortal (2020) #3396
47	Sadist 1990, Italy Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Above the Light (1993) Tribe (1996) #5371 Season in Silence (2010)
48	Aborted 1995, Belgium Brutal Death Metal	Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done (2003) #245 Retrogore (2016) #1283 Global Flatline (2012) #3542
49	Cytotoxin 2010, Germany Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Radiophobia (2012) #1519 Gammageddon (2017) #4077 Plutonium Heaven (2011)
50	Job for a Cowboy 2003, United States Deathcore, Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Moon Healer (2024) #4628 Ruination (2009) #4637 Genesis (2007) #5473

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