1.Vital Remains - Icons Of Evil

2.Lost Soul - Immerse In Infinity

3.Nile - Amongst The Catacombs Of Nephren-Ka

4.Dissenter - Apocalypse Of The Damned

5.Vader - Revelations

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Here are some totally Brootal albums I can't get enuff of! In alphabetical order...

1.Aeon - Rise To Dominate

2.Aeon - Bleeding The False

3.Aeon - Path Of Fire

4.Behemoth - The Apostasy

5.Blood Red Throne - Altered Genesis

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1.All time & genre (including Non-Metal on MS)
2.Only studio albums & EPs
3.I DON'T modify this list. So, this list is THE FINAL edition and based on my selection on 1 April 2017. (Modified on 12 February 2022)
4.The genre is primary one.
Last modified on 1 April 2017

...NOTICE: I'm reselecting albums & EPs for "The Timeless Ver2". This will be a bit more stringently selected than "ver1".

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

3.Krallice - Diotima

4.Dissection - Storm Of The Light's Bane

5.Deathspell Omega - Kénôse

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This list includes the death metal albums I enjoyed listening to the most. It will be frequently updated with new albums. Descriptions will probably be added soon.
Ordered alphabetically.

1.Asphyx - Last One On Earth

2.Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

3.Autopsy - Mental Funeral

4.Benighted - Asylum Cave

5.Bolt Thrower - The IVth Crusade

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While I know there are tons of albums to be listed in the death/gore/grind area of metal that could be included here, these are currently the most prominent to ME. They are listed in order of a toss up between relevance and personal preference.

1.Cannibal Corpse - Tomb Of The Mutilated

2.Avulsed - Gorespattered Suicide

3.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

4.Gorerotted - Only Tools and Corpses

5.Carcass - Necroticism: Descanting The Insalubrious

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1.Obscura - Cosmogenesis

2.Gorod - Process Of A New Decline

3.Cryptopsy - None So Vile

4.Septicflesh - The Great Mass

5.Desecravity - Implicit Obedience

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1.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

2.Ahab - The Call Of The Wretched Sea

3.Ahab - The Divinity Of Oceans

4.Animals As Leaders - Animals As Leaders

5.Animals As Leaders - Weightless

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The only one. No order particularly, except the order I thought of them in.

1.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

2.Vader - Litany

3.Monstrosity - Millennium

4.Malevolent Creation - Retribution

5.Bolt Thrower - ...For Victory

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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, black, core elements 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! Just refrain from telling me an album shouldn't be featured here... All the albums here are deliberately hand-picked and if it made the list, it's for a reason.

Personal absolute favorites of mine have a ★ beside the genre. And my pics of best album for each year are identified by (best of xxxx) beside the albums.

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

-Guib-

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

Best Of 2023:
The Zenith Passage - Datalysium

Best of 2024 So Far:
Exist - Hijacking The Zeitgeist

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TAGS: Technical Death Metal, Melodic Tech-Death, Brutal, Atmospheric, Progressive, Blackened Tech-Death, Technical Thrash, Deathgrind, Deathcore, Symphonic, Dissonant Tech-Death, Experimental, Avantgarde, Grindcore, Jazz

Last Updated: April 21st, 2024

1.Atheist - Piece Of Time

2.Nocturnus - The Key

3.Atrocity - Hallucinations

4.Death - Human

5.Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten

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1.Gorguts - From Wisdom To Hate

2.Hate Eternal - I, Monarch

3.Cannibal Corpse - Bloodthirst

4.Death - Individual Thought Patterns

5.Obscura - Omnivium

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Definitive Top Technical Death Metal.
MARVELS of human creation and imagination.
This list is subject to occasional additions and negations.
Includes slight deviations having progressive, jazz-rock, Avant-Garde influences but sticking to Technical Death in its core. This is MY OWN list. You could always make your own if you beg to disagree of the order.
Comments to include stuff welcome !
ORDER IN CHAOS - Technical Death Metal.

1.Death - Human

2.Decapitated - Winds Of Creation

3.Nile - Annihilation Of The Wicked

4.Necrophagist - Onset Of Putrefaction

5.Martyr - Warp Zone

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Ordered. One album per band.

1.Limbonic Art - In Abhorrence Dementia

2.Judas Priest - Painkiller

3.Emperor - Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk

4.Helloween - Walls Of Jericho

5.Slayer - Show No Mercy

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Here are 11 of my favorite Technical Death Metal album.. ordered according to my preference.

1.Cryptopsy - None So Vile

2.Spawn Of Possession - Noctambulant

3.Obscura - Cosmogenesis

4.Anata - The Conductor's Departure

5.Psycroptic - The Scepter Of The Ancients

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The albums that made me love prog/metal even more / that I can't get enough of.

1.Opeth - Blackwater Park

2.Children Of Bodom - Follow The Reaper

3.Nightwish - Once

4.Carcass - Heartwork

5.Death - Symbolic

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1.Atheist - Unquestionable Presence

2.Death - The Sound Of Perseverance

3.Morbid Angel - Covenant

4.Cannibal Corpse - Butchered At Birth

5.Deicide - Deicide

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