History Main / TechnicalDeathMetal

* Wretched (also deathcore)

* Music/{{Born of Osiris}} (prog mixed with {{Deathcore}} and {{Djent}})

Thus the distinction could be argued to be that technical death metal prides itself on instrumental skill and experimentation, while progressive death metal prides itself on compositional exploration and originality. A quicker way to explain the difference to a metalhead would be this:

* [=VoidCeremony=] (avant-tech)

* Music/{{Demilich}} (tech)

* Music/MortalDecay (tech)

* Symbolik (tech)

* FandomRivalry: In a case of SnobsVsSlobs, tech fans tend to look down upon slam fans and vice versa. The former tend to see slam fans as a bunch of would-be former deathcore kids in denial with a reactionary hatred of the genre that they still frequently listen to, who will blindly lap up anything with an unreadable logo and ContemptibleCoverArt no matter how shitty it is. Slam fans, meanwhile, see tech fans as a bunch of annoying meme-spammers who are easily impressed by anything that shamelessly rips off Necrophagist or Spawn of Possession, and who will blindly lap up anything from The Artisan Era and the bands associated with that circle as long as it's packaged well and has enough memes attached.

* FandomRivalry: In a case of SnobsVsSlobs, Tech Death fans tend to look down upon Slam fans and vice versa; more specifically, the former sees the latter as a group of uneducated neanderthals while the latter view the former as a group of pretentious pseudo-intellectuals.

* Music/VeilOfMaya (tech mixed with {{Deathcore}} and {{Djent}})

** Avant-tech: Music/{{Gorguts}} and Human Remains

* TropeCodifier - Music/{{Atheist}} and Music/{{Death}} for tech in general, Music/{{Suffocation}} for brutal tech, Music/{{Origin}} for noodly, hyperspeed tech, Music/{{Opeth}} for standard prog, Music/{{Meshuggah}} for djenty prog, and Music/{{Gorguts}} for noisy avant-garde prog.

* Music/BloodIncantation (both, starting with their full-length album; earlier work is more old-school)

* Music/{{Achokarlos}} (prog, a very NeoClassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly example; notably a solo project)

* Music/{{Akercocke}} (prog, although they are a slight case of NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly and could also be classified as blackened death or progressive black)
* Music/{{Alarum}} (prog, with some slight NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly tendencies)

* Music/NeObliviscaris (prog, mixed with [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly a wide variety of other styles]] including BlackMetal; they lean most heavily towards progressive death on ''Urn'')

** Afterbirth took Mortal Decay's early style and filtered it through a NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly mix of post-hardcore, shoegaze, space rock, progressive rock, ambient, and even ''hip-hop'' (as some of their ambient elements and melodic ideas had more than a little in common with the work of producers like Prince Paul and Ali Shaheed Muhammad).

* GenreBusting: A direct consequence of bands using NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly to full effect

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly - Mostly prog death, which often aims to produce truly excellent death metal by combining it with elements of just about every other excellent form of music in existence.

* Abiotic (''Casuistry'', ''Symbiosis'' was technical deathcore)

* Sadist took the keyboard-centric approach of Nocturnus, slowed it down and relaxed the pace, increased the role of the keyboards even further (with more than a little influence from 80s Italian film soundtracks), and featured more melodic and jazz fusion-inspired leadwork.