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| Technical death metal | |
| Stylistic origins | |
|---|---|
| Cultural origins |
Late 1980s, United States
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| Typical instruments | |
| Mainstream popularity | Underground |
| Regional scenes | |
| Quebec | |
Technical death metal (also called tech death or progressive death metal) refers to death metal that focuses on complex rhythms and song structures. As death metal bands evolved, some experimented with a variety of song structures, tempos, and playing techniques from other genres. As a result of such experimentation, exemplified by Cynic and Atheist, the subgenre of tech death established itself as a complex and varied musical style.
Technical death metal incorporates influences from jazz fusion, progressive rock and European classical music into death metal aesthetics, producing music that is unexpected, difficult to play and often difficult to comprehend. Songs tend to be written without distinct choruses, with varied or layered time signatures, and sometimes dissonant or atonal guitar riffs.
More technical experimentations in death metal started in the late 1980s and early 1990s by bands such as Death, Morbid Angel, Monstrosity, and Atheist. In 1989 Atheist's debut album Piece of Time was released, followed by Nocturnus's The Key, in 1990. In 1991, Death released Human. This album and later Death albums have proven influential on 1990s technical death metal bands.1 Other early technical death albums are Considered Dead (1991) by Gorguts, Nespithe (1993) by Demilich and Focus (1993) by Cynic.
Bands currently heralded as technical death metal icons include Nile, Meshuggah,234 Necrophagist, Decapitated, Beneath The Massacre, Spawn of Possession, Psycroptic, Opeth and Anata.
Bands
Some notable bands of this genre include:
- Aletheian56
- Amoral
- Anata7
- Arsis8
- Atheist9
- Becoming the Archetype
- Beneath the Massacre10
- Between the Buried and Me11
- Brain Drill
- Carcariass
- Cephalic Carnage12
- Coprofago13
- Cynic14
- Cryptopsy1516
- Death
- Decapitated17
- Decrepit Birth
- Deeds of Flesh
- Demilich18
- Devolved19
- Disavowed
- Dying Fetus
- Edge of Sanity
- Gojira20
- Gorguts21
- Gorod
- Iniquity22
- Inveracity
- Lethargy23
- Lykathea Aflame24
- Meshuggah252627
- Necrophagist28
- Negativa2930
- Neuraxis31
- Nile32
- Opeth
- Origin33
- Pavor34
- Pestilence (Testimony of the Ancients, Spheres)
- Polluted Inheritance35
- Psycroptic36
- Quo Vadis373839
- Sadist
- Scarve
- Spawn of Possession40
- Suffocation41
- Sympathy42
- Textures
- Theory in Practice43
- Vile
- Visceral Bleeding44
- VUVR45
See also
Notes
- ^ Death band page @ BNR Metal
- ^ Bowar. "Top 10 Heavy Metal CDs Of 2005 @ About.com: Heavy Metal". Retrieved on 2007-06-25.
- ^ "Meshuggah band page @ Metal Storm". Retrieved on 2007-06-28.
- ^ Ben Mitchell. "Review of "Nothing" @ Blender". Retrieved on 2007-06-28.
- ^ Aletheian - Dying Vine review @ Metal Review
- ^ Aletheian - Dying Vine review @ Metal Observer
- ^ Anata - Under A Stone With No Inscription review @ Metal Observer
- ^ Arsis band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Atheist - Unquestionable Presence review @ Metal Observer
- ^ Beneath the Massacre band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ "MusicMight :: Artists :: BETWEEN THE BURIED AND ME". Musicmight. Retrieved on 2008-10-09.
- ^ Cephalic Carnage band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Coprofago band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Cynic band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Cryptopsy band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Cryptopsy review @ Maelstrom
- ^ Decapitated band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Demilich band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Devolved band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
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- ^ Gorguts band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Iniquity band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Lethargy band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Lykathea Aflame band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Bowar. "Top 10 Heavy Metal CDs Of 2005 @ About.com: Heavy Metal". Retrieved on 2007-06-25.
- ^ "Meshuggah band page @ Metal Storm". Retrieved on 2007-06-28.
- ^ Ben Mitchell. "Review of "Nothing" @ Blender". Retrieved on 2007-06-28.
- ^ Necrophagist band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Negativa review @ Global Domination
- ^ Negativa review @ Lambgoat
- ^ Neuraxis band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Nile band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Origin band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Pavor band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Polluted Inheritance band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Psycroptic band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Quo Vadis band page @ BNR Metal
- ^ Quo Vadis - Defiant Imagination review @ Metal Observer
- ^ Quo Vadis band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Spawn of Possession band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Suffocation band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Sympathy band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Theory in Practice band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Visceral Bleeding band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Band: Vuvr - Librarius Metallicus
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