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A Brutal Poem Of Technicalities (Ordered By Years)


So here are some Brutal, Technical and sometimes Atmospheric death metal works I enjoy or that I believe should be given a try because they're unique and interesting, almost an essentials list when it comes to that style. There are some unorthodox choices as well in the mix that aren't just full-on tech death, some bands also incorporate grind, progressive or even jazz. Hope you'll all find something that suits your taste! The list is ordered by years. Feel free to comment and give recommendations!

Personal absolute favorites of mine have a ★ beside the year of release.

🇨🇦 = From Canada, My Country! We're quite good at Technical and Brutal Death Metal... Trust me. I mean, you'll see for yourself.

Edit: I will now add my picks for best album of each year using the mention (best of xxxx) in the chosen album's description.

-Guib-

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Guib's Best Tech/Brutal/Prog Death Metal Album Picks

Best Of 2022:
An Abstract Illusion - Woe

Best Of 2023:
The Zenith Passage - Datalysium

Best of 2024 So Far:
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Last Updated: March 4th, 2024

Created by: Guib | 17.10.2011



1. Atheist - Piece Of Time
1990
2. Nocturnus - The Key
1990
3. Death - Human
1991
4. Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten
1991
5. Gorguts - Considered Dead
1991 🇨🇦
6. Pestilence - Testimony Of The Ancients
1991
7. Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
1991 / ★
8. Nocturnus - Thresholds
1992
9. Gorguts - The Erosion Of Sanity
1993 🇨🇦
10. Cynic - Focus
1993
11. Demilich - Nespithe
1993 / ★
12. Pestilence - Spheres
1993
13. Death - Individual Thought Patterns
1993
14. Cryptopsy - Blasphemy Made Flesh
1994 🇨🇦
15. Chemical Breath - Values
1994
16. Suffocation - Pierced From Within
1995
17. Death - Symbolic
1995 / ★
18. Cryptopsy - None So Vile
1996 / ★ 🇨🇦
19. Profanity - Shadows To Fall
1997
20. Carcariass - Hell On Earth
1997
21. Theory In Practice - Third Eye Function
1997
22. Capharnaum - Reality Only Fantasized
1997
23. Gorguts - Obscura
1998 / ★ 🇨🇦
24. Death - The Sound Of Perseverance
1998 / ★
25. Necrophagist - Onset Of Putrefaction
1999
26. Sceptic - Blind Existence
1999
27. Decapitated - Winds Of Creation
2000
28. Quo Vadis - Day Into Night
2000 / ★ 🇨🇦
29. Dying Fetus - Destroy The Opposition
2000
30. Martyr - Warp Zone
2000 🇨🇦
31. Neuraxis - A Passage Into Forlorn
2001 🇨🇦
32. Gojira - Terra Incognita
2001
33. Sceptic - Pathetic Being
2001
34. Decapitated - Nihility
2002 / ★
35. Kataklysm - Shadows & Dust
2002 🇨🇦
36. Carcariass - Killing Process
2002
37. Cephalic Carnage - Lucid Interval
2002 / ★
38. Eternal Gray - Kindless
2002
39. Nile - In Their Darkened Shrines
2002
40. Spawn Of Possession - Cabinet
2003 / ★
41. Psycroptic - The Scepter Of The Ancients
2003
42. Sympathy - Arcane Path
2004 🇨🇦
43. Necrophagist - Epitaph
2004 / ★
44. Quo Vadis - Defiant Imagination
2004 / ★ 🇨🇦
45. Kataklysm - Serenity In Fire
2004 / ★ 🇨🇦
46. Anata - Under A Stone With No Inscription
2004 / ★
47. Arsis - A Celebration Of Guilt
2004
48. Augury - Concealed
2004 🇨🇦
49. Gorod - Neurotripsicks
2004
50. Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked
2005
51. Gojira - From Mars To Sirius
2005 / ★
52. Neuraxis - Trilateral Progression
2005 🇨🇦
53. Anata - The Conductor's Departure
2006 / ★
54. Spawn Of Possession - Noctambulant
2006 / ★
55. Sleep Terror - Probing Tranquility
2006
56. Martyr - Feeding The Abscess
2006 🇨🇦
57. Gorod - Leading Vision
2006
58. Nile - Ithyphallic
2007
59. Beneath The Massacre - Mechanics Of Dysfunction
2007 🇨🇦
60. Odious Mortem - Cryptic Implosion
2007
61. Arkaik - Existential Chaos
2007
62. Illogicist - The Insight Eye
2007
63. The Faceless - Planetary Duality
2008
64. Neuraxis - The Thin Line Between
2008 🇨🇦
65. Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds
2008
66. Posthumous Blasphemer - Fracture The Worship
2008
67. Arsis - We Are The Nightmare
2008
68. Psycroptic - Ob(Servant)
2008
69. Brain Drill - Apocalyptic Feasting
2008
70. Origin - Antithesis
2008 / ★
71. Gojira - The Way Of All Flesh
2008
72. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles
2009
73. Lost Soul - Immerse In Infinity
2009
74. Gnostic - Engineering The Rule
2009
75. Vengeful - The Omnipresent Curse
2009 🇨🇦
76. Obscura - Cosmogenesis
2009
77. Viraemia - Viraemia
2009
78. Insurrection - Fracture
2010 / ★ 🇨🇦
79. Allegaeon - Fragments Of Form And Function
2010
80. A Loathing Requiem - Psalms Of Misanthropy
2010
81. Arsis - Starve For The Devil
2010
82. Decrepit Birth - Polarity
2010 / ★
83. Cephalic Carnage - Misled By Certainty
2010
84. Fleshgod Apocalypse - Mafia
2010 / ★
85. Beyond Creation - The Aura
2011 / ★ 🇨🇦
86. Revocation - Chaos Of Forms
2011 / ★
87. Obscura - Omnivium
2011
88. Ouroboros - Glorification Of A Myth
2011
89. Wretched - Son Of Perdition
2012
90. Acrania - An Uncertain Collision
2012
91. Gorguts - Colored Sands
2013 🇨🇦
92. Portal - Vexovoid
2013
93. Black Crown Initiate - Song Of The Crippled Bull
2013
94. Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation
2014
95. Inanimate Existence - A Never-Ending Cycle Of Atonement
2014
96. Alkaloid - The Malkuth Grimoire
2015 (best of 2015)
97. The Ritual Aura - Laniakea
2015
98. Gorod - A Maze Of Recycled Creeds
2015
99. Chthe'ilist - Le Dernier Crépuscule
2016 🇨🇦 (best of 2016)
100. Coma Cluster Void - Mind Cemeteries
2016
101. Unfathomable Ruination - Finitude
2016
102. Archspire - Relentless Mutation
2017 / ★ 🇨🇦 (best of 2017)
103. Virulent Depravity - Fruit Of The Poisoned Tree
2017
104. Sutrah - Dunes
2017 🇨🇦
105. Endless Chaos - Paths To Contentment
2017 🇨🇦
106. Xenobiotic - Prometheus
2018
107. Imperial Triumphant - Vile Luxury
2018 / ★
108. Revocation - The Outer Ones
2018
109. Horrendous - Idol
2018 (best of 2018)
110. Carcariass - Planet Chaos
2019
111. Nocturnus AD - Paradox
2019 (best of 2019)
112. Carnosus - Dogma Of The Deceased
2020
113. Cytotoxin - Nuklearth
2020
114. Afterbirth - Four Dimensional Flesh
2020 (best of 2020)
115. Ophidian I - Desolate
2021
116. Vitrified Entity - Eternal Vitreous Dissolve
2021 🇨🇦
117. Deviant Process - Nurture
2021 🇨🇦
118. First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle
2021 🇨🇦 (best of 2021)
119. An Abstract Illusion - Woe
2022 / ★ (best of 2022)
120. Imperial Triumphant - Spirit Of Ecstasy
2022
121. Obsidious - Iconic
2022
122. Psycroptic - Divine Council
2022
123. Miscreance - Convergence
2022
124. Sarmat - Determined To Strike
2023 / ★
125. The Zenith Passage - Datalysium
2023 / ★ (best of 2023)
126. Tomb Mold - The Enduring Spirit
2023 🇨🇦
127. Horrendous - Ontological Mysterium
2023
128. Fleshvessel - Yearning: Promethean Fates Sealed
2023 / ★
129. Gorod - The Orb
2023
130. Vitriol - Suffer & Become
2024
131. Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer
2024



Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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20.10.2011 - 17:40
Frost Beast
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Not a big fan of tech death myself, but your list is awesome!
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20.10.2011 - 17:42
Guib
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Written by Guest on 20.10.2011 at 17:40

Not a big fan of tech death myself, but your list is awesome!


Thanks alot man!
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25.10.2011 - 13:24
Koen Smits

Although I don't know 4 bands in your list, I think it's one of the most accurate lists here.
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but spoil thius film is like spoil porn and say porn ends whit cum shot ...
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25.10.2011 - 14:02
BloodTears
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Good to see Psycroptic in there. No "The Isle Of Disenchantment" though, that's probably my favourite album by them. This reminds me: I haven't listened to any of this stuff in a very long time.
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Written by BloodTears on 19.08.2011 at 18:29

Like you could kiss my ass.


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25.10.2011 - 14:35
Paradox Lover
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Mmm good one, me gusta
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25.10.2011 - 23:46
Guib
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Thanks all !
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02.11.2011 - 02:01
king_matt

It's missing Obscura - Omnivium!
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17.02.2012 - 18:49
Guib
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Written by king_matt on 02.11.2011 at 02:01

It's missing Obscura - Omnivium!


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10.05.2012 - 21:12
Oaken
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You listened to Gorod's 2012 effort? Quite good album.
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28.05.2012 - 14:38
Syk
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Calm Hatchery, 2010? I don't like all that much the songs I've heard, but it would probably fit here very well. Oh, and 2002 Eternal Gray. No idea re: their more current material

Also could perhaps do with more Suffo & Kata... other than that, my thoughts are very similar to those of Dizzeke

edit - add Blackened Theological Tome, although you probably won't ever be able to get your hands on it...
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21.11.2012 - 19:13
Illog1cal
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Dying Fetus, Hate Eternal, Cerebral Bore, Aborted. These are not exactly in the whole technical sphere as much, even though Dying Fetus is ridiculously technical. Just a few suggestions.
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16.05.2015 - 19:49
Guib
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I know I said I wouldn't be updating this list any longer... but I still added Carcariass - Killing Process from 2002 and Kindless by Eternal Gray (same year), 'cos it simply needed to be on here

Edit: Added, Wretched - Son Of Perdition
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16.12.2019 - 19:44
metalriff

No Augury here? And how about including instrumental albums like The Machinations of Dementia by Blotted Science. Hell even Liquid Tension Experiment will fit on here
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26.12.2019 - 21:10
Guib
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Written by metalriff on 16.12.2019 at 19:44

No Augury here? And how about including instrumental albums like The Machinations of Dementia by Blotted Science. Hell even Liquid Tension Experiment will fit on here



Mmmh, I see what you're saying. I'll have to think about this, makes perfect sense to me XD
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23.06.2021 - 18:27
Mehrad

I mean The Way Of All Flesh is way more technical than From Mars To Sirius
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03.09.2021 - 15:19
F3ynman2000
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Oooh, I like technical death like Death and Quo Vadis. ... I'll have to use this list to find similar awesomeness!
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22.07.2023 - 04:37
Guib
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Written by F3ynman2000 on 03.09.2021 at 15:19

Oooh, I like technical death like Death and Quo Vadis. ... I'll have to use this list to find similar awesomeness!


Im late, but I sure am glad this could help you out on your journey! After reading your article, I hope I could be a small part in the discovery.
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22.07.2023 - 21:48
A Real Mönkey

Glad to see your lists being updated still. Some of my favorites on this site. I got some suggestions myself:
- Fourth-Dimensional Flesh by Afterbirth
- The Sanguinary Impetus by Defeated Sanity
- Nuklearth by Cytotoxin

Gotta dig through my stock for thrash recs as well.
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22.07.2023 - 22:08
Guib
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Written by A Real Mönkey on 22.07.2023 at 21:48

Glad to see your lists being updated still. Some of my favorites on this site. I got some suggestions myself:
- Fourth-Dimensional Flesh by Afterbirth
- The Sanguinary Impetus by Defeated Sanity
- Nuklearth by Cytotoxin

Gotta dig through my stock for thrash recs as well.



Heya thanks a lot! Im going to have to check those thanks for the recs.
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23.07.2023 - 01:33
Guib
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Written by A Real Mönkey on 22.07.2023 at 21:48

Glad to see your lists being updated still. Some of my favorites on this site. I got some suggestions myself:
- Fourth-Dimensional Flesh by Afterbirth
- The Sanguinary Impetus by Defeated Sanity
- Nuklearth by Cytotoxin

Gotta dig through my stock for thrash recs as well.



Ok man... I've just finished spinning Nuklearth a couple times and man oh man this is going in the list. What a fucking banger! Love it thanks.
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27.07.2023 - 04:45
Guib
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Added Datalysium by The Zenith Passage and can't recommend this album enough. Amazing tech death release give it a try folks.
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09.08.2023 - 06:41
Guib
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Just added:

Endless Chaos release from 2017 "Paths To Contentment" which doesn't seem to be featured on MS. Look it up pretty fun TDM from Canada.

Also added another amazing Canadian release from the same year by the band Sutrah called "Dunes". Its fucking great, dont miss on it.
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22.08.2023 - 01:01
Guib
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Added:

Gorod - The Orb (2023)

'Cos it's good!
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27.09.2023 - 03:40
Vellichor

Idk if you’ve heard the Conspiracy of Zero, Fleshvessel and Forcefed Horsehead albums this year but they’re pretty awesome, especially the last one! I love your lists, they’re a great summary of each genre
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27.09.2023 - 14:03
Guib
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Written by Vellichor on 27.09.2023 at 03:40

Idk if you’ve heard the Conspiracy of Zero, Fleshvessel and Forcefed Horsehead albums this year but they’re pretty awesome, especially the last one! I love your lists, they’re a great summary of each genre


Thanks a lot for the comment. Also, Fleshvessel is already in here but I'll check the other 2. Thanks for the reccomendations.
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27.09.2023 - 14:14
Vellichor

Written by Guib on 27.09.2023 at 14:03

Thanks a lot for the comment. Also, Fleshvessel is already in here but I'll check the other 2. Thanks for the reccomendations.

Don’t know how I missed it but that’s what I get for being on here so late. Can’t wait to see what you pick for 2024!
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03.03.2024 - 03:36
Guib
Thrash Talker
Added a first entry for 2024 in the form of:

Vitriol - Suffer & Become

This album is unacceptable, unbearable and the pole opposite of accessible. It comes in the shape of a 47 relentless minutes of ear aggression. I can assure you that you won't come out of this one unscathe and might even feel a tad violated. In any case you have been warned, you're welcome.

Have fun.
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04.03.2024 - 01:14
Guib
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Second Entry for 2024 is:

Job For A Cowboy - Moon Healer

So, I gotta say that I am surprised. I did not expect this album to be this good and quite frankly this is the best I've heard from this band... Ever. The thing that is most memorable I find with this one is that bass. It pops out of the mix just the right way and it is absolutely tight. Love it. Anyways, great release from JFAC.
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04.03.2024 - 22:26
Guib
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Updated with Couple Additions (older stuff mostly from the 90's)

Profanity - Shadows To Fall

Theory In Practice - Third Eye Function

Sceptic - Blind Existence

Chemical Breath - Values
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