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A Brutal Poem Of Technicalities (Ordered By Years)


So here are some Brutal, Technical, Progressive 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:
tbd...

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Last Updated: March 27th, 2024

Created by: Guib | 17.10.2011



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



Disclaimer: All top lists are unofficial and do not represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
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25.03.2024 - 16:00
Roman Doez
Hallucigenia
Written by Guib on 25.03.2024 at 15:27

Just added something that should've been in here already a while ago... Thanks to Metal Rasputin for reminding me this was a thing.

Timeghoul - 1992-1994 Discography [Compilation]
(Progressive/Technical Death Metal)

This compilation of their 90's demo material was released in 2012. Knowing this, don't be shocked by the rather raw production. This is some of the sickest Death Metal of the time.

Hell yeah, two of the best and most forward thinking demos ever written.
Boiling In The Hourglass is up there as one of the best death metal songs of all time
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A Real Mönkey

Man, how can a meh album like Datalysium be the best tech death album in a year that also had way better stuff from Fleshvessel, Sarmat, Tomb Mold and Lunar Chamber?

On that note, check out Lunar Chamber. Uplifting progressive Buddhism-inspired Lykathea Aflame style death.
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Today - 12:06
Guib
Thrash Talker
Written by A Real Mönkey on Today at 05:15

Man, how can a meh album like Datalysium be the best tech death album in a year that also had way better stuff from Fleshvessel, Sarmat, Tomb Mold and Lunar Chamber?

On that note, check out Lunar Chamber. Uplifting progressive Buddhism-inspired Lykathea Aflame style death.


Guess we got very different taste and ears. I mean I like the albums you mentioned but in no fucking way is Datalysium a "meh" album lol get outta here. By far my favourite out of all of these, it is not even close. That's pure unadultered tech-death and amazing wankery like I love. They even managed to produce some of my now all time favourite Tech tracks in the form of "Algorithmic Salvation" and "Lexicontagion". It's like Necrophagist with better production if it was played/altered by robots from outer space. I'd even wager this album could be a gateway into technical death for many unitiated ears. Anyways, to each their own.

But yeah I'll check Lunar Chamber, I missed that one. thanks
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