Best Technical Death Metal Bands

115 bands

Rank	Band / Formed / Genres	Albums
1	Death 1984, United States Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Symbolic (1995) #29 Human (1991) #46 Leprosy (1988) #83
2	Cryptopsy 1992, Canada Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	None So Vile (1996) #33 Blasphemy Made Flesh (1994) #308 Cryptopsy (2012) #678
3	Nile 1993, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Annihilation of the Wicked (2005) #205 In Their Darkened Shrines (2002) #290 Those Whom the Gods Detest (2009) #861
4	Fleshgod Apocalypse 2007, Italy Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	King (2016) #139 Oracles (2009) #547 Agony (2011) #560
5	Obscura 2002, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Akróasis (2016) #192 Cosmogenesis (2009) #911 Omnivium (2011) #1012
6	Dying Fetus 1991, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Descend into Depravity (2009) #336 Killing on Adrenaline (1998) #1098 War of Attrition (2007) #1258
7	Atheist 1988, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Unquestionable Presence (1991) #385 Piece of Time (1990) #914 Elements (1993) #3332
8	Fallujah 2007, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Deathcore	The Harvest Wombs (2011) #881 Nomadic (2013) [EP] #1028 The Flesh Prevails (2014) #1412
9	Decapitated 1996, Poland Technical Death Metal	Cancer Culture (2022) #1463 Organic Hallucinosis (2006) #2485 Carnival Is Forever (2011) #2571
10	Cynic 1987, United States Progressive Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Rock	Focus (1993) #322 Traced in Air (2008) #1086 Uroboric Forms - The Complete Demo Recordings (2017) [Compilation]
11	Nocturnus 1987, United States Technical Death Metal	The Key (1990) #185 Thresholds (1992) #1931 Nocturnus (1993) [EP]
12	Revocation 2006, United States Technical Thrash Metal, Technical Death Metal	Empire of the Obscene (2008) #1770 Netherheaven (2022) #1951 Chaos of Forms (2011) #2267
13	Origin 1997, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Antithesis (2008) #793 Entity (2011) #868 Unparalleled Universe (2017) #2148
14	Archspire 2009, Canada Technical Death Metal	Bleed the Future (2021) #437 Relentless Mutation (2017) #1319 The Lucid Collective (2014) #2930
15	Hour of Penance 1999, Italy Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Sedition (2012) #396 The Vile Conception (2008) #1886 Paradogma (2010) #2211
16	Rivers of Nihil 2008, United States Technical Death Metal	Where Owls Know My Name (2018) #900 The Work (2021) #3409 Monarchy (2015) #5686
17	Suffocation 1989, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Pierced From Within (1995) #173 Effigy of the Forgotten (1991) #265 Hymns from the Apocrypha (2023) #851
18	Ikuinen Kaamos 1997, Finland Progressive Death Metal, Black Metal	The Forlorn (2006) #864 Closure (2008) [EP] #1380 Fall of Icons (2010) #1880
19	Allegaeon 2008, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Apoptosis (2019) #1184 Proponent for Sentience (2016) #1244 Damnun (2022) #2074
20	Gorod 2005, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Jazz	Leading Vision (2006) #1540 Kiss the Freak (2017) [EP] Aethra (2018) #1662
21	Beyond Creation 2005, Canada Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	The Aura (2011) #649 Algorythm (2018) #2250 Earthborn Evolution (2014) #5819
22	Gorguts 1989, Canada Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Avant-garde Metal, Dissonant Death Metal	Obscura (1998) #1734 The Erosion of Sanity (1993) #2054 From Wisdom to Hate (2001) #2395
23	Demilich Finland Technical Death Metal	Nespithe (1993) #241 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) #1494 Psalms of the Moribund (2007) #2562 Passages Into Deformity (2013) #2830
25	Necrophagist 1992, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Epitaph (2004) #1042 Onset of Putrefaction (1999) #2080 Requiems of Festered Gore (1992) [Demo]
26	Rings of Saturn 2009, United States Technical Deathcore	Lugal Ki En (2014) #883 Dingir (2012) #1735 Ultu Ulla (2017) #3557
27	First Fragment 2007, Canada Technical Death Metal	Dasein (2016) #209 Gloire Éternelle (2021) #957 The Afterthought Ecstasy (2010) [EP]
28	Ulcerate 2000, New Zealand Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Stare into Death and Be Still (2020) #706 Shrines of Paralysis (2016) #2147 Everything Is Fire (2009) #3220
29	Infant Annihilator 2012, United States Slamming Brutal Deathcore, Technical Deathcore	The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch (2016) #1407 The Battle of Yaldabaoth (2019) #4938 The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution (2012) #6568
30	Arsis 2000, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	A Diamond for Disease (2005) [EP] #1964 We Are the Nightmare (2008) #4960 Starve for the Devil (2010) #5114
31	Exocrine 2013, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Maelstrom (2020) #4033 The Hybrid Suns (2022) #4568 Molten Giant (2018)
32	Inferi 2005, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Revenant (2018) #2534 Vile Genesis (2021) #5585 The End of an Era \| Rebirth (2019) #7429
33	The Faceless 2004, United States Technical Deathcore, Technical Death Metal	Planetary Duality (2008) #5195 Autotheism (2012) #5619 Akeldama (2006)
34	Dan Swanö Sweden Technical Death Metal	Moontower (1999) #993
35	Spawn of Possession 2007, Sweden Technical Death Metal	Incurso (2012) #4589 Cabinet (2003) Noctambulant (2006) #7361
36	Psycroptic 1999, Australia Technical Death Metal	As the Kingdom Drowns (2018) (Ob)Servant (2008) #2633 The Scepter of the Ancients (2003) #4701
37	!T.O.O.H.! 1993, Czech Republic Technical Death Metal, Deathgrind	Order and Punishment (2005) #1013 Pod vládou biče (2002) #2396 Democratic Solution (2013)
38	Wormed 1998, Spain Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Krighsu (2016) #1657 Exodromos (2013) #2831 Planisphærium (2003) #4383
39	Quo Vadis 1993, Canada Technical Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal	Day Into Night (2000) #3145 Defiant Imagination (2004) #3341 Defiant Indoctrination (2005) [Video]
40	Cattle Decapitation 1996, United States Deathgrind, Death Metal, Goregrind	The Anthropocene Extinction (2015) #603 Monolith of Inhumanity (2012) #647 Medium Rarities (2018) [Compilation]
41	Tribulation 2004, Sweden Death Metal, Gothic Metal	The Formulas of Death (2013) The Children of the Night (2015) #1860 Down Below (2018) #4205
42	Augury 2002, Canada Technical Death Metal	Illusive Golden Age (2018) #1286 Concealed (2004) #6577 Fragmentary Evidence (2009) #7469
43	Deeds of Flesh 1993, United States Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Path of the Weakening (1999) #1009 Portals to Canaan (2013) #2325 Trading Pieces (1996) #2785
44	Ophidian I 2010, Iceland Technical Death Metal	Desolate (2021) #2285 Solvet Saeclum (2012) Demo (2011) [Demo]
45	Lorna Shore 2009, United States Symphonic Deathcore	...And I Return to Nothingness (2021) [EP] #1107 Immortal (2020) #3334 Pain Remains (2022) #3387
46	Sadist 1990, Italy Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Above the Light (1993) Tribe (1996) #5260 Season in Silence (2010)
47	Aborted 1995, Belgium Brutal Death Metal	Goremageddon: The Saw and the Carnage Done (2003) #262 Retrogore (2016) #1587 Global Flatline (2012) #3477
48	Cytotoxin 2010, Germany Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Radiophobia (2012) #1496 Gammageddon (2017) #4013 Plutonium Heaven (2011)
49	Hannes Grossmann Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Wisdom of Echoes (2024) [EP] The Radial Covenant (2014) #3978 The Crypts of Sleep (2016) #4777
50	Anomalous United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Ohmnivalent (2011) #3556 Cognitive Dissonance (2006) [EP]

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