History Main / TechnicalDeathMetal

** Albeit the lyrics are almost always [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism several shades darker in tone]] than the [[UpToEleven darkest darkness]] found in other musical genres.

* UpToEleven - Ubiquitous; in fact, pushing the envelope at all levels of musicality is virtually axiomatic of both prog and tech death.

* Wormhole (also slam death metal)

* Music/{{Opeth}} (prog)

* Unmoored (prog; first album is death 'n' roll - best known as [[Music/ScarSymmetry Christian Alvestam's]] first band)

* Afterbirth (brutal tech and a potential UrExample of brutal death, also AvantGardeMetal)

* Arcane Existence (melodic tech/prog, also GothicMetal)

* [[Music/BecomingTheArchetype Becoming the Archetype]] (prog)

* Deceptionist (tech, mixed with IndustrialMetal)

* [[Music/EdgeOfSanity Edge of Sanity]] (melodic prog)

* [[Music/{{Gojira}} Gojira]] (prog, mixed with GrooveMetal, up until ''L'Enfant Sauvage''. They kept the prog and groove aspects while moving away from death metal in ''Magma''.)

* Hath (prog, also blackened death, a bit of a GenreBusting example)

* [[Music/HourOfPenance Hour of Penance]] (brutal tech)

* [[Music/JobForACowboy Job for a Cowboy]] (tech on ''Demonocracy'', prog on ''Sun Eater'')

* [[Music/RingsOfSaturn Rings of Saturn]] (tech, mixed with deathcore)
* [[Music/RiversOfNihil Rivers of Nihil]] (prog)

* Music/{{Spawn of Possession}} (tech)

* Music/{{Trigger the Bloodshed}} (tech; first album was {{Deathcore}})

* Music/{{Kataklysm}} (tech, Sylvain Houde-era material only, mixed with brutal death; occasionally dip into this in later material, but never for a full song or album)

+ ThrashMetal, {{Grindcore}}, GrooveMetal, ProgressiveRock, Jazz Fusion

* 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 a ContemptibleCover 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.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIj0wdn188Q Atrocity - Deep in Your Subconscious]] (old-school tech)

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness - Tech and prog death usually comes in at a 10, though brutal tech often reaches to 11. Bands like Opeth could be considered to hover around 9, since the lighter passages drag the overall score down, but at their heaviest can still reach 10 or 11.

* Music/InfantAnnihilator (tech) [[note]](Their most recent album, "The Battle of Yaldabaoth," elevated them out of {{Deathcore}} and firmly into Brutal-Tech levels)[[/note]]

* Infant Annihilator (tech) [[note]](Their most recent album, "The Battle of Yaldabaoth," elevated them out of {{Deathcore}} and firmly into Brutal-Tech levels)[[/note]]