This is a list of technical death metal bands. Technical death metal (sometimes called tech-death) is a musical subgenre of death metal music that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures.
Band | Country | Formed | Notes |
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7 Horns 7 Eyes | USA | 2006 | [1] |
Abnormality | USA | 2005 | [2] |
Aborted | Belgium | 1995 | [3] |
Abysmal Dawn | USA | 2003 | |
Abysmal Torment | Malta | 2000 | |
Aeon | Sweden | 1999 | [4] |
Anata | Sweden | 1993 | [5] |
Archspire | Canada | 2009 | [6] |
Arsis | USA | 2000 | [7] |
As They Sleep | USA | 2003 | [8] |
Atheist | USA | 1984–1992, 1993–1994, 2006–present | |
Augury | Canada | 2001 | [9] |
Becoming the Archetype | USA | 1999 | [10] |
Beneath the Massacre | Canada | 2004 | [11][12] |
Between the Buried and Me | USA | 2000–present | [13][14][15][16] |
Beyond Creation | Canada | 2005–present | |
The Black Dahlia Murder | USA | 2001-present | |
Blood Incantation | USA | 2011–present | |
Blotted Science | USA | 2005–present | [17] |
Born of Osiris | USA | 2003 | [18] |
Brain Drill | USA | 2005 | [9][19][20][21] |
Cannibal Corpse | USA | 1988 | [22][23] |
Capharnaum | USA | 1993–1999, 2003–2009 | [24] |
Carcass | UK | 1985–1996, 2007–present | |
Cephalic Carnage | USA | 1992 | [25] |
Circle of Contempt | Finland | 2006–present | |
The Contortionist | USA | 2007 | [26] |
Contrarian | USA | 2012–present | |
Coprofago | Chile | 1993 | [27] |
Cryptic Shift | UK | 2013 | [28] |
Cryptopsy | Canada | 1992 | [29][30][31] |
Cynic | USA | 1987–1994, 2006–present | |
Deadsquad | Indonesia | 2006 | [32] |
Death | USA | 1984–1996, 1998–2001 | [33] |
Decapitated | Poland | 1996 | [34] |
Decrepit Birth | USA | 2001 | [35] |
Deeds of Flesh | USA | 1993 | |
Defeated Sanity | Germany | 1994 | |
Demilich | Finland | 1990–1993, 2006, 2010, 2015–present | |
Desecravity | Japan | 2007-present | |
Divine Heresy | USA | 2006 | |
Dying Fetus | USA | 1991 | [36] |
Entheos | USA | 2015 | [37] |
Extol | Norway | 1994 | [38] |
Fallujah | USA | 2007 | [39] |
The Faceless | USA | 2004 | [40] |
Fleshgod Apocalypse | Italy | 2007 | |
Gojira | France | 1996 | [41] |
Gorod | France | 1997 | |
Gorguts | Canada | 1989 | [42] |
Grimaze | Bulgaria | 2013 | [43] |
In Battle | Sweden | 1996 | [44] |
Into the Moat | USA | 2001 | [45] |
Knights of the Abyss | USA | 2005 | [46] |
Lost Soul | Poland | 1990–1995, 1997–present | |
Malignancy | USA | 1992 | |
Man Must Die | UK | 2002 | |
Meshuggah | Sweden | 1987 | [47][1] |
Monstrosity | USA | 1990 | [42] |
Necrophagist | Germany | 1992 | [48] |
Neuraxis | Canada | 1994 | [49] |
Ne Obliviscaris | Australia | 2003 | [50] |
Nile | USA | 1993 | [51] |
Nocturnus | USA | 1988 | [52] |
Obscura | Germany | 2002 | [9] |
Oppressor | USA | 1991 | |
Origin | USA | 1990 | [53] |
Persefone | Andorra | 2001 | [54] |
Pestilence | Netherlands | 1986 | [55] |
Psycroptic | Australia | 1999 | [56][57][58] |
Pyrrhon | USA | 2008 | |
Quo Vadis | Canada | 1992 | |
The Red Chord | USA | 1999 | [59] |
Revocation | USA | 2006 | [60] |
Rings of Saturn | USA | 2009 | [61] |
Rivers of Nihil | USA | 2009 | [62] |
Sadist | Italy | 1991 | |
Soreption | Sweden | 2005 | |
Spawn of Possession | Sweden | 1997 | |
Suffocation | USA | 1989 | [63] |
Sylosis | UK | 2000 | |
Through the Eyes of the Dead | USA | 2003 | |
Trigger the Bloodshed | UK | 2006 | [64] |
Ulcerate | New Zealand | 2000 | |
Visceral Bleeding | Sweden | 1999 | |
Wormed | Spain | 1998 | [65] |
The Zenith Passage | USA | 2012 |
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