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10. TECHNICAL DEATH METAL

 Technical death metal (sometimes called tech-death or progressive death metal[1][dubious – discuss][2][dubious – discuss]) is a musical subgenre of death metal that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures. Technical experimentation in death metal began in the late '80s and early '90s by bands such as Death, Atheist and Cynic.[3] In 1990, Nocturnus released their debut album, The Key, which was followed by Sarcófago's third album, The Laws of Scourge, featuring a change in their musical style, black metal/thrash metal to technical death metal. Atheist's second album, Unquestionable Presence, Pestilence's third album, Testimony of the Ancients, and Death's fourth album, Human, were all released the very next year. Human and later Death albums have proven especially influential on later '90s technical death metal bands.[3] In 1991, New York's grindcore-influenced Suffocation released the Effigy of the Forgotten debut album, which focused on speed and brutality with "sophisticated" sense of songwriting and subsequently became groundbreaking in the genre.[4]
Phil Freeman, ex-editor of Metal Edge, has described the sub-genre of technical death metal as "the hidden side of its genre, having more in common with prog-rock and jazz fusion than with the mechanistic, Satan-obsessed grinding that's the music's dominant public image."[3]

List of technical death metal bands

The band Necrophagist performing in Germany in 2010
Band Country Formed Notes
Aborted Belgium 1995 [5]
Aeon Sweden 1999 [6]
Anata Sweden 1993 [7]
Arsis USA 2000 [3][8]
Atheist USA 1984 [3]
Augury Canada 2001 [9]
Beneath the Massacre Canada 2004 [10][11]
Born of Osiris USA 2003 [12]
Brain Drill USA 2005 [9][13][14][15]
Cannibal Corpse USA 1988 [16][17]
Cephalic Carnage USA 1992 [18]
Coprofago Chile 1993 [19]
Cryptopsy Canada 1992 [3][20][21][22]
Cynic USA 1987 [3]
Death USA 1983 [3][23]
Decapitated Poland 1996 [24]
Dying Fetus USA 1991 [25]
Extol Norway 1994 [26]
The Faceless USA 2004 [27]
Gojira France 1996 [28]
Gorguts Canada 1989 [3][29]
In Battle Sweden 1996 [30]
Into the Moat USA 2001 [31]
Knights of the Abyss USA 2005 [32]
Meshuggah Sweden 1987 [33]
Monstrosity USA 1990 [29]
Necrophagist Germany 1992 [3][34]
Neuraxis Canada 1994 [3][35]
Nile USA 1993 [36]
Nocturnus USA 1988 [37]
Obscura Germany 2002 [9]
Oceano USA 2006 [38]
Opeth Sweden 1990 [39]
Origin USA 1997 [40]
Pestilence Netherlands 1986 [41]
Psycroptic Australia 1999 [42][43][44]
The Red Chord USA 1999 [45]
Suffocation USA 1989 [4]
Trigger the Bloodshed United Kingdom 2006 [46]
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