Best Technical Death Metal Bands

124 bands

Rank	Band / Formed / Genres	Albums
1	Death 1984, United States Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Symbolic (1995) #20 Human (1991) #33 Leprosy (1988) #54
2	Cryptopsy 1992, Canada Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	None So Vile (1996) #30 Blasphemy Made Flesh (1994) #240 Cryptopsy (2012) #859
3	Nile 1993, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Annihilation of the Wicked (2005) #307 In Their Darkened Shrines (2002) #404 Those Whom the Gods Detest (2009) #873
4	Dying Fetus 1991, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal, Grindcore	Descend into Depravity (2009) #372 Killing on Adrenaline (1998) #783 Reign Supreme (2012) #1400
5	Fleshgod Apocalypse 2007, Italy Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal, Symphonic Metal	King (2016) #149 Agony (2011) #570 Oracles (2009) #583
6	Obscura 2002, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Akróasis (2016) #214 Cosmogenesis (2009) #969 Omnivium (2011) #1077
7	Atheist 1987, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Unquestionable Presence (1991) #444 Piece of Time (1990) #926 Jupiter (2010) #4110
8	Origin 1997, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Antithesis (2008) #807 Entity (2011) #1132 Unparalleled Universe (2017) #2077
9	Decapitated 1996, Poland Technical Death Metal	Cancer Culture (2022) #2162 Carnival Is Forever (2011) #3012 Winds of Creation (2000) #2135
10	Revocation 2006, United States Technical Thrash Metal, Technical Death Metal	Empire of the Obscene (2008) #1825 Chaos of Forms (2011) #1836 Netherheaven (2022) #3441
11	Archspire 2009, Canada Technical Death Metal	Bleed the Future (2021) #429 Relentless Mutation (2017) #708 The Lucid Collective (2014) #1543
12	Fallujah 2007, United States Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Deathcore	The Harvest Wombs (2011) #937 Nomadic (2013) [EP] #1089 The Flesh Prevails (2014) #1529
13	Nocturnus 1987, United States Technical Death Metal	The Key (1990) #226 Thresholds (1992) #2213 Nocturnus (1993) [EP]
14	Cynic 1987, United States Progressive Metal, Technical Death Metal, Progressive Rock	Focus (1993) #316 Traced in Air (2008) #1242 Uroboric Forms - The Complete Demo Recordings (2017) [Compilation]
15	Rivers of Nihil 2008, United States Technical Death Metal	Where Owls Know My Name (2018) #836 The Work (2021) #3151 Rivers of Nihil (2025) #5552
16	Suffocation 1989, United States Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Pierced From Within (1995) #130 Effigy of the Forgotten (1991) #196 Hymns from the Apocrypha (2023) #1355
17	Ulcerate 2000, New Zealand Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Stare into Death and Be Still (2020) #619 Cutting the Throat of God (2024) #1026 Everything Is Fire (2009) #2585
18	Hour of Penance 1999, Italy Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Sedition (2012) #469 The Vile Conception (2008) #1614 Paradogma (2010) #2341
19	Beyond Creation 2005, Canada Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	The Aura (2011) #695 Algorythm (2018) #1809 Earthborn Evolution (2014) #6596
20	Allegaeon 2008, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Proponent for Sentience (2016) #1321 Apoptosis (2019) #1622 Damnun (2022) #2366
21	Gorguts 1989, Canada Death Metal, Technical Death Metal, Avant-garde Metal, Dissonant Death Metal	The Erosion of Sanity (1993) #2398 Considered Dead (1991) #2944 Obscura (1998) #2586
22	Necrophagist 1992, Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Epitaph (2004) #509 Onset of Putrefaction (1999) #1203 Requiems of Festered Gore (1992) [Demo]
23	Gorod 2005, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal, Jazz	Leading Vision (2006) #1615 Kiss the Freak (2017) [EP] Process of a New Decline (2009) #2146
24	Defeated Sanity 1993, Germany Technical Brutal Death Metal	Chapters of Repugnance (2010) #1244 Psalms of the Moribund (2007) #2109 Passages Into Deformity (2013) #2969
25	Demilich 1990, Finland Technical Death Metal	Nespithe (1993) #261 Regurgitation of Blood (1991) [Demo] The Four Instructive Tales... of Decomposition (1991) [Demo]
26	First Fragment 2007, Canada Technical Death Metal	Dasein (2016) #233 Gloire Éternelle (2021) #1013 The Afterthought Ecstasy (2010) [EP]
27	Rings of Saturn 2009, United States Technical Deathcore	Lugal Ki En (2014) #938 Dingir (2012) #1799 Ultu Ulla (2017) #3138
28	Ikuinen Kaamos 1997, Finland Progressive Death Metal, Black Metal	The Forlorn (2006) #871 Closure (2008) [EP] #1460 Fall of Icons (2010) #1953
29	Arsis 2000, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	A Diamond for Disease (2005) [EP] #2058 We Are the Nightmare (2008) #4882 Starve for the Devil (2010) #5689
30	Infant Annihilator 2012, United States Slamming Brutal Deathcore, Technical Deathcore	The Elysian Grandeval Galèriarch (2016) #1502 The Battle of Yaldabaoth (2019) #4824 The Palpable Leprosy of Pollution (2012) #7477
31	Exocrine 2013, France Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	Maelstrom (2020) #4380 Molten Giant (2018) Legend (2024) #5758
32	Inferi 2005, United States Melodic Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Revenant (2018) #1828 Vile Genesis (2021) #3040 The End of an Era \| Rebirth (2019) #8545
33	Cattle Decapitation 1996, United States Deathgrind, Death Metal, Goregrind	The Anthropocene Extinction (2015) #706 Monolith of Inhumanity (2012) #896 Death Atlas (2019) #1410
34	Cytotoxin 2010, Germany Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Radiophobia (2012) #3380 Gammageddon (2017) #4364 Nuklearth (2020) #5325
35	The Faceless 2004, United States Technical Deathcore, Technical Death Metal	Planetary Duality (2008) #5804 Autotheism (2012) #6322 Akeldama (2006)
36	Dan Swanö Sweden Progressive Death Metal	Moontower (1999) #911 Uncreation (2026) [Single]
37	Spawn of Possession 2007, Sweden Technical Death Metal	Incurso (2012) #4717 Cabinet (2003) Noctambulant (2006) #7939
38	Pyrrhon 2008, United States Technical Death Metal	Exhaust (2024) Abscess Time (2020) The Mother of Virtues (2014) #5267
39	Psycroptic 1999, Australia Technical Death Metal	As the Kingdom Drowns (2018) (Ob)Servant (2008) #2822 The Scepter of the Ancients (2003) #5210
40	Quo Vadis 1993, Canada Technical Death Metal, Melodic Death Metal	Defiant Imagination (2004) #3624 Day Into Night (2000) #3400 Defiant Indoctrination (2005) [Video]
41	Wormed 1998, Spain Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Krighsu (2016) #1721 Exodromos (2013) #3059 Planisphærium (2003) #4832
42	Tribulation 2004, Sweden Death Metal, Gothic Metal	The Formulas of Death (2013) The Children of the Night (2015) #1590 Down Below (2018) #3762
43	Deeds of Flesh 1993, United States Brutal Death Metal, Technical Death Metal	Path of the Weakening (1999) #906 Gradually Melted (1995) [EP] Portals to Canaan (2013) #2254
44	!T.O.O.H.! 1993, Czechia Technical Death Metal, Deathgrind	Order and Punishment (2005) #1078 Pod vládou biče (2002) #6405 Democratic Solution (2013)
45	Brodequin 1998, United States Brutal Death Metal	Harbinger of Woe (2024) #2386 Instruments of Torture (2000) #3890 Festival of Death (2001) #8255
46	Hannes Grossmann Germany Technical Death Metal, Progressive Metal	The Radial Covenant (2014) #4972 The Crypts of Sleep (2016) #5296 Wisdom of Echoes (2024) [EP] #7452
47	Augury 2002, Canada Technical Death Metal	Illusive Golden Age (2018) #2078 Concealed (2004) #7492 Fragmentary Evidence (2009) #8599
48	Ophidian I 2010, Iceland Technical Death Metal	Desolate (2021) #2417 Solvet Saeclum (2012) Demo (2011) [Demo]
49	Fecundation 2013, Korea Technical Death Metal, Brutal Death Metal	Cadaveric Rigdity + From Grave to Cradle (2015) #2933 Decomposition of Existence (2018) #3948 Morte Cerebral (2019) [EP]
50	Lorna Shore 2009, United States Symphonic Deathcore	...And I Return to Nothingness (2021) [EP] #1071 Pain Remains (2022) #3086 Immortal (2020) #3612

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