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 15th, 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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Some albums are really good. Many of these are good all the way around. And, in many cases, there is a single song that stands out, sometimes it's the last song on the album. This is a list of those songs.

For a more in depth look at this, I've codified each into a given category:
Type 1 - 'The long song at the end.' Often the title track. These have a tendency to be most well written and dynamic pieces on the album.

1.!T.O.O.H.! - Order And Punishment (Řád A Trest)

2.Abigail Williams - Becoming

3.Agalloch - The Mantle

4.Amon Amarth - Versus The World

5.Anekdoten - Vemod

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1.Morbid Angel - Altars Of Madness

2.Death - Scream Bloody Gore

3.Obituary - Slowly We Rot

4.Suffocation - Effigy Of The Forgotten

5.Deicide - Legion

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1.Atheist - Jupiter

2.Hour Of Penance - Paradogma

3.Flesh Consumed - Ecliptic Dimensions Of Suffering

4.Melechesh - The Epigenesis

5.Canvas Solaris - Irradiance

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In no particular order.

1.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

2.Overkill - Ironbound

3.Mar De Grises - Streams Inwards

4.Deathspell Omega - Paracletus

5.Watain - Lawless Darkness

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Updated 10/23/18

1.Defeated Sanity - Chapters Of Repugnance

2.Nails - Unsilent Death

3.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

4.Misery Index - Heirs To Thievery

5.Deathspell Omega - Paracletus

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Top ten list of the best death metal releases in 2010

1.Desultory - Counting Our Scars

2.Hail Of Bullets - On Divine Winds

3.Immolation - Majesty And Decay

4.Hour Of Penance - Paradogma

5.Entrails - Tales From The Morgue

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This list is exactly how I want it. I picked the albums that I had the most fun with and spent the most time listening to. If you have an opinion about my picks then just have yourself a coke and a smile, and shut the fuck up.

1.In Mourning - Monolith

2.Solution .45 - For Aeons Past

3.Kalmah - 12 Gauge

4.Allegaeon - Fragments Of Form And Function

5.Trauma - Archetype Of Chaos

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1.Enslaved - Axioma Ethica Odini

2.Ihsahn - After

3.Agalloch - Marrow Of The Spirit

4.Alcest - Écailles De Lune

5.Pain Of Salvation - Road Salt One

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1.Vulvectomy - Post-Abortion Slut Fuck

2.Fleshgod Apocalypse - Mafia

3.Hour Of Penance - Paradogma

4.Decrepit Birth - Polarity

5.Gorevent - Worship Paganism

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I rated 1st Place 10/10; 2nd-6th Place 9/10 and 7th-24th Place 8/10. So it was kind of hard for me to create this list, because there are many albums with a same ranking. There is some arbitrariness in there especially around the 12th-20th place.

1.Opeth - In Live Concert At The Royal Albert Hall

2.Solution .45 - For Aeons Past

3.Asphyx - Live Death Doom

4.Misery Index - Heirs To Thievery

5.At The Gates - Purgatory Unleashed

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