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| 2 | Primary Stylistic Influences: |
| 3 | + ProgressiveMetal, DeathMetal, AvantGardeMetal |
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| 5 | |
| 6 | [floatboxright: |
| 7 | Secondary Stylistic Influences: |
| 8 | + ThrashMetal, {{Grindcore}}, GrooveMetal, ProgressiveRock, JazzFusion |
| 9 | ] |
| 10 | |
| 11 | '''Technical death metal''' and '''progressive death metal''' are subgenres of DeathMetal that infuse the (in)famous [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill assaulting musical brutality]] of the genre with the technicality and elaborate musical structures of ProgressiveMetal. The songs tend to be very complex, and often include influences from other genres, such as jazz or classical music; the result is a highly cerebral musical style that rewards close and repeated listening, without surrendering the unrelenting musical aggression DeathMetal is known for. |
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| 13 | There is, or can be, a difference between "technical death metal" and "progressive death metal", though many artists fit both descriptions or oscillate between. While both are undeniably musically sophisticated and extremely brutal, tech death bands tend to come across as much more intense, often performing their complex compositions with blinding speed and pounding aggression, or in a manner that emphasises the virtuosic skill and precision of the performances. Technical death metal can thus sometimes have a somewhat machine-like, "triggered" sound, with instruments starting and stopping suddenly or irregularly, playing precisely calculated riffs or patterns which shift frequently and sometimes seemingly at random, only to form part of a larger motif or series of progressions which become apparent upon close listening. |
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| 15 | "Progressive death metal", on the other hand, tempers the conventional "death metal" repertoire of elements with jazzy breakdowns, melodic refrains, unusual (for death metal) instrumentation and vocalisation, or slower tempi, and generally draws liberally from diverse musical traditions to create elaborate, multilayered sounds that evolve across lengthy and eclectic albums. Progressive death metal thus tends to be more diverse or less identical-sounding, in that while tech death bands commonly draw inspiration from other musical forms, progressive death metal bands often do so multiply within a single song or album, and though demonstrably capable of the sort of chops-intensive wizardry found in tech death, prog death bands often forego these displays in favour of allowing their compositions time to breathe via greater repetition, subtler permutation, and more extensive progression. |
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| 17 | "Avant-tech" is more of a blanket label for acts that eschew conventional tech tropes, which usually translates to either a focus on dissonance or unconventional riffing approaches. Many acts that fit under this mantle have some overlap with technical or avant-garde black metal and sometimes mathcore as well, and the rule is generally that if the technicality and unconventional structures are used as tools to create specific musical textures, rather than as central features of the music, it's more likely than not avant-tech. |
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| 19 | 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, and avant focuses on technicality and complicated structures as a way of creating an atmosphere. A quicker way to explain the difference to a metalhead would be this: |
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| 21 | * '''Progressive''': Music/{{Opeth}}. |
| 22 | * '''Technical''': Music/{{Decapitated}}. |
| 23 | * '''Avant''': Music/{{Ulcerate}}. |
| 24 | %%%It should be noted that the page originally mentioned only tech-death, and referred to both tech- and prog-death bands as such. The decision was made to emphasise that the two genres were different, and so prog-death was added too. This is why the page is currently called "technical death metal". |
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| 27 | Deserving special attention are Music/{{Death}}, not only for inventing DeathMetal as a whole, but for subsequently kickstarting both prog and tech with their 1991 album ''Human'', which stood head-and-shoulders above contemporaneous releases in terms of the proficiency and originality of its songcraft and production, with seriously insightful lyrics accompanying inventive chords through inspired and memorable songwriting. It and all subsequent Death albums are considered standard-setting classics, with ''Human''[[note]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Zt8nF3b3-E&hd=1 Lack Of Comprehension]][[/note]] and ''Individual Thought Patterns''[[note]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5ISAdamTJ4&hd=1 Trapped In A Corner]][[/note]] cleaving more closely to technical death metal and ''Symbolic''[[note]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qd_jlnvUJz0&hd=1 Crystal Mountain]][[/note]] and ''The Sound of Perseverance''[[note]][[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgx3sp_hTJw&hd=1 The Flesh And The Power It Holds]][[/note]] closer to progressive death metal to the contemporary ear. |
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| 29 | Further bands that are generally classified as technical/progressive death metal (exact subgenre noted by their name) include: |
| 30 | |
| 31 | [[index]] |
| 32 | * Music/{{Abhorrent}} (tech) |
| 33 | * Music/{{Abiotic}} (''Casuistry'', ''Symbiosis'' was technical deathcore) |
| 34 | * Music/AbysmalDawn (tech) |
| 35 | * Music/{{Achokarlos}} (prog, a very GenreBusting example; notably a solo project) |
| 36 | * Ad Nauseam (avant-tech) |
| 37 | * Aenigmatum (both) |
| 38 | * Aethereus (tech) |
| 39 | * Music/{{Afterbirth}} (brutal tech and a potential UrExample of brutal death, also AvantGardeMetal) |
| 40 | * Music/TheAgonist (melodic prog on ''Prisoners'') |
| 41 | * Music/{{Akercocke}} (prog, although they are a slight case of GenreBusting and could also be classified as blackened death or progressive black) |
| 42 | * Music/{{Alarum}} (prog, with some slight GenreBusting tendencies) |
| 43 | * Music/{{Alchemist}} (prog, mixed with PsychedelicRock of all things) |
| 44 | * Music/{{Alkaloid}} (prog) |
| 45 | * Music/{{Allegaeon}} (melodic tech) |
| 46 | * Alluvial (prog/dissonant tech in general, borders on deathcore on ''Sarcoma'') |
| 47 | * Music/{{Alterbeast}} (tech) |
| 48 | * Alustrium (both) |
| 49 | * Music/{{Anomalous}} (prog) |
| 50 | * Aparia (tech) |
| 51 | * Apogean (tech) |
| 52 | * Music/ArcaneExistence (melodic tech/prog, also GothicMetal) |
| 53 | * Music/{{Archspire}} (brutal tech) |
| 54 | * Music/{{Arkaik}} (brutal tech on ''Reflections'', both on ''Metamorphignition'') |
| 55 | * Aronious (tech) |
| 56 | * Music/{{Arsis}} (melodic tech; also prog on ''A Diamond for Disease'') |
| 57 | * Music/ArtificialBrain (melodic dissonant tech) |
| 58 | * Music/{{Atheist}} (both, and the UrExample of technical death if you believe that Hellwitch was more thrash than death) |
| 59 | * Atrae Bilis (avant-tech) |
| 60 | * Atvm (prog) |
| 61 | * Music/{{Augury}} (prog) |
| 62 | * Babylon Sad (prog/avant-garde) |
| 63 | * Music/BarrenEarth (prog) |
| 64 | * Music/BaringTeeth (avant-garde tech in the vein of Gorguts' ''Obscura'', also mathcore) |
| 65 | * Music/BecomingTheArchetype (prog) |
| 66 | * Bedsore (prog, also some psychedelic elements) |
| 67 | * [[Music/BeholdTheArctopus Behold ... The Arctopus]] (both) |
| 68 | * [[Music/BeneathTheMassacre Beneath the Massacre]] (tech mixed with {{Deathcore}}) |
| 69 | * [[Music/BetweenTheBuriedAndMe Between the Buried and Me]] (prog; debatably also tech; also [[{{Metalcore}} Mathcore]], at least on their early releases, although there is little -core influence left in most of their albums after ''Alaska'') |
| 70 | * Music/BeyondCreation (both) |
| 71 | * Music/BlackCrownInitiate (prog) |
| 72 | * Blade of Horus (tech, some slam and deathcore elements) |
| 73 | * Music/BloodIncantation (both on ''Starspawn'', prog on ''Hidden History of the Human Race''; earlier work is more old-school) |
| 74 | * Music/BlottedScience (both) |
| 75 | * Bookakee (tech) |
| 76 | * Music/{{Born of Osiris}} (prog mixed with {{Deathcore}} and {{Djent}}; their post-''The Discovery'' material is metalcore) |
| 77 | * Music/BrainDrill (tech) |
| 78 | * Music/BrokenHope (prog on ''Loathing'', tech on ''Grotesque Blessings'') |
| 79 | * Music/{{Brutality}} (tech) |
| 80 | * Music/BuriedFuture |
| 81 | * Music/{{Capharnaum}} (tech) |
| 82 | * Cathexis (tech with prog influences) |
| 83 | * Music/CattleDecapitation (both, mixed with deathgrind) |
| 84 | * Music/{{Cenotaph}} (brutal tech) |
| 85 | * Music/CephalicCarnage (both and deathgrind) |
| 86 | * Music/CerebricTurmoil (tech, some trappings of AvantGardeMetal) |
| 87 | * Chapel of Disease (prog) |
| 88 | * Music/TheChasm (prog; latest material is entirely instrumental) |
| 89 | * Coprofago (tech) |
| 90 | * Coexistence (both) |
| 91 | * Music/{{Cognitive}} (tech) |
| 92 | * Conforza (prog, later material only) |
| 93 | * Music/{{Continuum}} (brutal tech) |
| 94 | * Music/TheContortionist (prog mixed with {{Deathcore}}, though the latest album is just straight-up ProgressiveMetal with very little influence from death metal or deathcore) |
| 95 | * Music/{{Contrarian}} (prog) |
| 96 | * Music/{{Convulsing}} (dissonant tech with strong black metal influence) |
| 97 | * Music/{{Crypt of Kerberos}} (prog) |
| 98 | * Music/{{Cryptopsy}} (brutal tech, except for ''The Unspoken King'', which was {{Deathcore}}, and also incredibly poorly received. ''Once Was Not'' could debatably be considered prog as well.) |
| 99 | * Music/{{Cytotoxin}} (brutal tech, borders on technical deathcore) |
| 100 | * Cult of Lilith (tech) |
| 101 | * {{Music/Cynic}} (prog; debatably tech; earliest material was technical death/thrash) |
| 102 | * Music/{{Darkthrone}} (bet you're surprised to see them here, but their first album, ''Soulside Journey'', qualified as tech before their GenreShift to BlackMetal) |
| 103 | * Dead World Reclamation (melodic tech) |
| 104 | * Music/{{Decapitated}} (tech; debatably also prog on ''Carnival Is Forever'') |
| 105 | * Music/{{Deceptionist}} (tech, mixed with IndustrialMetal) |
| 106 | * Music/DecrepitBirth (tech on ''…And Time Begins''; both on ''Diminishing Between Worlds'' and ''Polarity'') |
| 107 | * [[Music/DeedsOfFlesh Deeds of Flesh]] (tech, at least in their recent work) |
| 108 | * Music/DefeatedSanity (slam and brutal tech; also prog on ''Dharmata'') |
| 109 | * Deivos (tech) |
| 110 | * Music/{{Demilich}} (avant-tech) |
| 111 | * Demon King (melodic tech, also blackened death metal) |
| 112 | * Music/{{Desecravity}} (brutal tech) |
| 113 | * Devil's Reef (tech) |
| 114 | * Music/{{Devolved}} (tech) |
| 115 | * Music/DimMak (tech) |
| 116 | * Music/DirEnGrey (''DUM SPIRO SPERO'' saw the band incorporate tech elements with the prog and AvantGardeMetal sound from their previous album ''UROBOROS'') |
| 117 | * Music/DisarmoniaMundi (Melodic Prog) |
| 118 | * Music/{{Disillusion}} (melodic/symphonic prog) |
| 119 | * Music/DivineDisorder (Symphonic/Orchestral Prog) |
| 120 | * Music/{{Dominion}} (tech) |
| 121 | * Music/DyingFetus (brutal tech) |
| 122 | * Music/{{Dysmorphic}} (tech) |
| 123 | * Music/EatenBySharks |
| 124 | * Music/EdgeOfSanity (melodic prog) |
| 125 | * Music/{{Emeth}} (brutal tech) |
| 126 | * Music/EnfoldDarkness (melodic tech) |
| 127 | * Music/{{Entheos}} (tech, also djent on ''Primal'', also prog on ''Dark Future'') |
| 128 | * Equipoise (tech) |
| 129 | * Music/EternalGrey (both) |
| 130 | * Exist (prog) |
| 131 | * Exocrine (tech) |
| 132 | * Music/{{Extol}} (blackened prog) |
| 133 | * Music/TheFaceless (tech on ''Planetary Duality'', prog on ''Autotheism'') |
| 134 | * Music/{{Fallujah}} (both; early material was {{Deathcore}}) |
| 135 | * Music/FirstFragment (tech) |
| 136 | * Music/FleshgodApocalypse (brutal tech on ''Oracles'' and ''Mafia'') |
| 137 | * Flub (tech) |
| 138 | * Music/{{Gigan}} (prog) |
| 139 | * Music/{{Gojira|Band}} (prog, mixed with GrooveMetal, up until ''L'Enfant Sauvage''. They kept the prog and groove aspects while moving away from death metal in ''Magma''.) |
| 140 | * Music/{{Gorguts}} (TropeCodifier for dissonant tech; also avant-garde and prog, with the latter being debatable from ''Obscura'' onwards and inarguable from ''Colored Sands'' onwards) |
| 141 | * Music/{{Gorod}} (both) |
| 142 | * Gory Blister (tech) |
| 143 | * Hannes Grossmann (prog) |
| 144 | * Music/{{Hath}} (prog, also blackened death, a bit of a GenreBusting example) |
| 145 | * Music/{{Hellwitch}} (tech, mixed with thrash, possibly an UrExample) |
| 146 | * Henker (brutal tech) |
| 147 | * Horrendous (prog on ''Ecdysis'' and ''Idol'') |
| 148 | * Music/HourOfPenance (brutal tech) |
| 149 | * Human Remains (also deathgrind) |
| 150 | * Music/InanimateExistence (prog) |
| 151 | * Inanna (prog) |
| 152 | * Music/{{Inferi}} (tech, mixed with melodic death) |
| 153 | * Music/InfantAnnihilator (technical deathcore) [[note]](Their most recent album, "The Battle of Yaldabaoth," elevated them out of {{Deathcore}} and firmly into Brutal-Tech levels)[[/note]] |
| 154 | * Ingurgitating Oblivion (dissonant tech) |
| 155 | * Music/IniquitousDeeds (brutal tech) |
| 156 | * Inoculation (tech) |
| 157 | * [[Music/InQuest In-Quest]] (prog; notable for featuring [[Music/{{Aborted}} Sven de Caluwe]] on vocals for two releases) |
| 158 | * Music/InternalSuffering (brutal tech) |
| 159 | * Intonate (dissonant tech) |
| 160 | * Music/IrreversibleMechanism (both) |
| 161 | * Music/JobForACowboy (tech on ''Demonocracy'', prog on ''Sun Eater'') |
| 162 | * Kardashev (prog) |
| 163 | * Music/{{Kataklysm}} (brutal tech, first two albums only; became straightforward brutal death after Sylvain House's departure and converted to groove-tinged melodic death on ''In the Arms of Devastation'') |
| 164 | * Lantern (old-school/avant-tech) |
| 165 | * Music/LascaillesShroud (prog) |
| 166 | * Music/LastSacrament (tech; also notable as they use [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtonal_music microtonal scales]] for their music) |
| 167 | * Music/LecherousNocturne (blackened tech) |
| 168 | * Music/{{Lethargy}} (tech, also mathcore) |
| 169 | * Music/ALoathingRequiem (tech, the solo project of Malcolm Pugh of Inferi) |
| 170 | * Logistic Slaughter (brutal tech) |
| 171 | * Music/LykatheaAflame (both) |
| 172 | * Music/{{Malignancy}} (brutal tech) |
| 173 | * Music/{{Martyr}} (tech) |
| 174 | * [[Music/MaudlinOfTheWell maudlin of the Well]] (avant-garde prog) |
| 175 | * Music/{{Mephistopheles}} (tech) |
| 176 | * Music/{{Meshuggah}} (tech, thrash, in some cases, grindcore; also prog on ''I'' and ''Catch 33'') |
| 177 | * Misanthrope (prog, occasionally tech) |
| 178 | * Miscreance (tech, also ThrashMetal) |
| 179 | * Music/{{Mithras}} (both; especially prog on ''Worlds Beyond the Veil'' and ''Behind the Shadows Lie Madness'') |
| 180 | * Music/{{Mitochondrion}} (prog) |
| 181 | * Monotheist (prog) |
| 182 | * Music/{{Monstrosity}} (tech) |
| 183 | * Music/MorbusChron (prog on ''Sweven'') |
| 184 | * Mordant Rapture (melodic tech) |
| 185 | * Music/MortalDecay (brutal tech) |
| 186 | * Music/ChristianMuenzner (tech) |
| 187 | * Music/{{Natron}} (Brutal Tech) |
| 188 | * Music/{{Necrophagist}} (tech, debatably also prog) |
| 189 | * Music/NeObliviscaris (prog, mixed with [[GenreBusting a wide variety of other styles]] including BlackMetal; they lean most heavily towards progressive death on ''Urn'') |
| 190 | * Music/{{Nero di Marte}} (avant-prog) |
| 191 | * Music/{{Neuraxis}} (both) |
| 192 | * Neurogenic (brutal tech) |
| 193 | * Music/{{Nile}} (brutal tech) |
| 194 | * Music/{{Nocturnus}} (both; possible TropeMaker with their 1990 debut ''The Key'' and definitely an UrExample either way) |
| 195 | * Music/{{Node}} (tech) |
| 196 | * Music/NovembersDoom (prog, starting with ''Aphotic'', though they have experimented with it before; mixed with Death/Doom and MelodicDeathMetal) |
| 197 | * Music/{{Nylithia}} (tech, also thrash) |
| 198 | * Music/{{Obscura}} (prog) |
| 199 | * Obsidious (prog) |
| 200 | * Music/OdiousMortem (tech) |
| 201 | * Ominous Ruin (brutal tech) |
| 202 | * Music/{{Omnihility}} (brutal tech) |
| 203 | * Music/{{Opeth}} (prog; switched to straight up ProgressiveRock on ''Heritage'' and never looked back) |
| 204 | ** 1999 - ''Music/{{Still Life|OpethAlbum}}'' |
| 205 | ** 2001 - ''Music/BlackwaterPark'' |
| 206 | ** 2002/03 - ''Music/DeliveranceAndDamnation'' |
| 207 | ** 2005 - ''Music/GhostReveries'' |
| 208 | * Ophidian I (tech) |
| 209 | * Music/{{Origin}} (brutal tech) |
| 210 | * Music/OrphanedLand (prog) |
| 211 | * Pathogenic (tech, also djent; only applies to their later material) |
| 212 | * Pan.Thy.Monium (prog) |
| 213 | * Music/{{Pavor}} (tech, also AvantGardeMetal) |
| 214 | * Music/{{Persefone}} (Symphonic Prog/Tech) |
| 215 | * Music/{{Pestilence}} (tech) |
| 216 | * Music/{{Portal|Band}} (dissonant tech) |
| 217 | * Proliferation (prog) |
| 218 | * Music/{{Psycroptic}} (tech) |
| 219 | * Music/{{Pyrrhon}} (dissonant tech, also mathcore) |
| 220 | * Music/QuoVadis (both) |
| 221 | * Music/TheRedChord (tech, crossing over with {{Deathcore}} and [[{{Grindcore}} Deathgrind]]) |
| 222 | * Music/{{Replacire}} (prog, mixed with ThrashMetal) |
| 223 | * Music/{{Revocation}} (tech, mixed with ThrashMetal up until ''Teratogenesis''; occasionally prog) |
| 224 | * Music/{{Rings of Saturn}} (tech, mixed with deathcore) |
| 225 | * Music/{{Rivers of Nihil}} (prog) |
| 226 | * Rune (avant-tech, bordering on deathcore) |
| 227 | * Music/{{Sadist}} (prog) |
| 228 | * [[Music/{{Sarcofago}} Sarcófago]] (possible co-TropeMaker for tech on ''The Laws of Scourge'', which is their only album that qualifies) |
| 229 | * Music/{{Sarcolytic}} (brutal tech) |
| 230 | * Music/{{Sculptured}} (prog) |
| 231 | * Music/TheSenseless (tech) |
| 232 | * Music/{{Serdce}} (prog) |
| 233 | * Music/{{Serocs}} (tech) |
| 234 | * Music/SeveredSavior (brutal tech on ''Servile Insurrection'') |
| 235 | * Music/{{Sin}} (tech) |
| 236 | * Music/{{Slaughterbox}} (brutal tech) |
| 237 | * Slugdge (prog) |
| 238 | * Music/{{Son of Aurelius}} (''The Farthest Reaches'', melodic tech) |
| 239 | * Music/{{Sophicide}} (tech) |
| 240 | * Music/{{Soreption}} (tech) |
| 241 | * Music/SpawnOfPossession (tech) |
| 242 | * Spectrum of Delusion (tech) |
| 243 | * Music/{{Stargazer}} (prog) |
| 244 | * Music/{{Suffocation}} (TropeCodifier for tech; also codified brutal, and probably the reason why a lot bands combine the two) |
| 245 | * The Summoned (prog on later material) |
| 246 | * Sutrah (prog) |
| 247 | * Symbolik (melodic tech) |
| 248 | * Thaetas (brutal/avant-tech) |
| 249 | * Music/{{Theory in Practice}} (tech) |
| 250 | * Music/{{Tiamat}} (prog, on ''Wildhoney'' only) |
| 251 | * Music/{{Timeghoul}} (both) |
| 252 | * [[Music/{{TOOH}} !T.O.O.H.!]] (both, and also have a lot of {{Grindcore}} influence) |
| 253 | * Music/TriggerTheBloodshed (tech; first album was {{Deathcore}}) |
| 254 | * Music/{{Ulcerate}} (dissonant tech; debatably prog, especially on ''The Destroyers of All'') |
| 255 | * Music/UnfathomableRuination (brutal tech) |
| 256 | * Unflesh (melodic tech, also blackened death metal) |
| 257 | * Music/{{Unhuman}} (prog) |
| 258 | * Unmoored (prog, first album is death 'n' roll - best known as [[Music/ScarSymmetry Christian Alvestam's]] first band) |
| 259 | * Music/{{Vale of Pnath}} (melodic tech) |
| 260 | * Music/VeilOfMaya (tech mixed with {{Deathcore}} and {{Djent}}, later material is closer to metalcore) |
| 261 | * Music/{{Viraemia}} (brutal tech) |
| 262 | * Virulent Depravity (tech) |
| 263 | * Virvum (tech) |
| 264 | * [=VoidCeremony=] (old-school/avant-tech) |
| 265 | * Voraath (prog) |
| 266 | * Warforged (prog, also blackened death) |
| 267 | * Werewolves (tech) |
| 268 | * Music/{{Wintersun}} (prog; also MelodicDeathMetal) |
| 269 | * Music/{{Wormed}} (brutal tech with [[{{Grindcore}} deathgrind]] influence; debatably prog-ish on their latest release, ''Exodromos'') |
| 270 | * Wormhole (tech, also slam) |
| 271 | * Wretched (tech, also deathcore) |
| 272 | * Music/YourChanceToDie (melodic tech) |
| 273 | * Music/{{Zealotry}} (both) |
| 274 | * Music/TheZenithPassage (tech) |
| 275 | * Zero Dawn (melodic tech) |
| 276 | [[/index]] |
| 277 | |
| 278 | !!Tropes that apply to prog/tech death: |
| 279 | * AGodAmI: Tech death acts, especially those who write fantasy-based lyrics, are particularly infamous for invoking this trope. The lyrical implementation can range from something as relatively tame as having control over the future to a straight-up insatiable desire to [[OmnicidalManiac destroy everyone and everything]]. Often written in PurpleProse for maximum effect. |
| 280 | * DumbAndDrummer: ''Strongly'' averted here. Hell, even the more blast-happy drummers still have to have truly incredible stamina, dexterity, and senses of time to be able to pull off what they do. |
| 281 | * EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Many early acts had strange and quirky styles that have never really been repeated since: |
| 282 | ** Atheist mixed death/thrash (particularly Hellwitch and earlier Sadus) with prominent jazz fusion, progressive rock, funk, Latin jazz, and son cubano elements, coupled with extremely prominent and creative basslines from LeadBassist Roger Patterson. |
| 283 | ** Nocturnus mixed American death/thrash speed and aggression with prominent technical thrash metal elements, highly technical but relatively chaotic and unstructured leadwork, and extremely prominent keyboard lines that were a central thread in the music. |
| 284 | ** Mortal Decay mixed very early brutal death metal (largely Suffocation, Internal Bleeding, Pyrexia, and Broken Hope) with extremely prominent tech and prog-thrash riffing and melodic ideas, as well as subtle but noticeable jazz fusion elements. |
| 285 | ** Afterbirth took Mortal Decay's early style and filtered it through a GenreBusting 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). |
| 286 | ** 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. |
| 287 | * EpicRocking - Frequently, especially on the prog side of the family. |
| 288 | * 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 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. |
| 289 | * GenreBusting - 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. |
| 290 | ** GenreRoulette: Frequent among prog death bands; a trend popularized by Music/{{Opeth}}. |
| 291 | * LeadBassist: Lots and lots of ''Type A'' examples, with [[Music/{{Death}} Steve DiGiorgio]], [[Music/{{Origin}} Mike Flores (Origin)]], Jacob Schmidt (Music/DefeatedSanity), Olivier Pinard (Cryptopsy, Neuraxis), Nick Schendzielos (Cephalic Carnage, Job for a Cowboy), Dominic "Forest" Lapointe (Augury, First Fragment, ex-Beyond Creation), Jared Smith (Archspire), Linus Klausenitzer (Music/{{Obscura}}, Alkaloid), Hugo Doyon-Karout (Beyond Creation, Brought by Pain), Nick Shaw (Music/BlackCrownInitiate), Andrew Kim (Inferi), and Jeff Hughell being some of the individuals who stand out even amongst them. |
| 292 | ** Though it may be argued that within the generic context these individuals and others ought to count as ''Type D'' examples, rather than strictly ''Type A''. Because both prog and tech death place substantial emphasis on writing interesting and challenging parts for all instruments, bassists in the genre are, moreso than in other rock or metal genres, considered to be integral if not central to the band's sound, and thus cut far larger figures within the consciousness of fans, and are simply unlikely to be overlooked, especially if they are particularly skilled. |
| 293 | *** The abundance and popularity of bass solos, or dueling solos in which the bassist and the lead guitarist trade off against one another, probably doesn't hurt either. |
| 294 | * LeadDrummer: Like bassists, there are lots and lots of drummers in the genre who are renowned for their technical ability, namely George Kollias (Nile), John Longstreth (Origin, Dim Mak, ex-Gorguts), Hannes Grossmann (Alkaloid, ex-Necrophagist, ex-Obscura), Flo Mounier (Cryptopsy), Lille Gruber (Defeated Sanity), and Jamie Saint Merat (Ulcerate). |
| 295 | * LeadSingerPlaysLeadGuitar: As the genre is built on technical ability, expect even the lead vocalists to be great guitarists in their on right. Examples include [[Music/{{Necrophagist}} Muhammed Suiçmez]] and [[Music/{{Nile}} Karl Sanders]]. |
| 296 | * LyricalDissonance - Despite being death metal, lyrics range about evenly from the traditional [[ForTheEvulz Deathy]] {{Gorn}} to philosophy, social commentary, speculative fiction, spirituality or the occult, and even comedy. |
| 297 | ** Albeit the lyrics are almost always [[SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism several shades darker in tone]] than the darkest darkness found in other musical genres. |
| 298 | * PurpleProse: Certain bands that have very abstract and complicated lyrics tend to do this. |
| 299 | * SopranoAndGravel: Clean vocals have become increasingly common in progressive acts as of the 2010s. Opeth, Cynic, and Extol pioneered this originally, while Obscura, Gojira, and The Faceless codified its modern usage. Other modern acts that regularly utilize this dynamic include Black Crown Initiate, Rivers of Nihil (circa ''Where Owls Know My Name''), Alkaloid, Ne Obliviscaris, and Revocation. |
| 300 | * SurrealHorror: The more experimental bands can invoke this in listeners, with their extensive use of dissonance, disorienting time signatures, and disturbing lyrics. |
| 301 | * SymphonicMetal: Symphonic elements are a common part of the genre from the 2010s onward, particularly in the more melodic acts. Much of this can be owed to the steadily increasing influence of Dimmu Borgir, Cradle of Filth, Fleshgod Apocalypse, and similar acts on the genre, and the sound of the archetypical 2010s melodic/symphonic tech act was largely codified by Inferi and popularized by Creator/TheArtisanEra, who signed many similar acts. |
| 302 | * TropeMaker and UrExample - Music/{{Atheist}}, which began life as an extremely technical offshoot of ThrashMetal and grew in heaviness for the second album. While less influential than Atheist, Nocturnus and Hellwitch are also commonly cited when the question of "who came first?" comes up. |
| 303 | * TropeCodifier: |
| 304 | ** The genre as a whole: Music/{{Death}} and Music/{{Atheist}} (originally), Music/{{Necrophagist}}, Music/TheFaceless, and Music/{{Obscura}} (modern acts). |
| 305 | ** Brutal tech: Music/{{Suffocation}}, Music/{{Nile}}, and Music/{{Origin}} |
| 306 | ** Melodic tech: Music/{{Arsis}}, Music/{{Neuraxis}}, and Anata |
| 307 | ** Prog: Music/{{Cynic}} and Music/{{Opeth}} |
| 308 | ** Avant/dissonant tech: Music/{{Gorguts}} and Human Remains |
| 309 | * UncommonTime - ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FN53FLWBGQ&hd=1 Fuck yes]].'' |
| 310 | |
| 311 | !!Tech songs (including all mentioned styles): |
| 312 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_1HLPKjIuQ Afterbirth - Spiritually Transmitted Disease]] (avant-tech) |
| 313 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdnMJQz9wTo Alkaloid - From a Hadron Machinist]] (prog) |
| 314 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ts0ftm0OQY Allegaeon - Of Mind and Matrix]] (melodic tech) |
| 315 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qphUMkA_Yg Alterbeast - Flesh Bound Text]] (melodic tech) |
| 316 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0tasSaMcxg Anata - Downward Spiral into Madness]] (melodic tech) |
| 317 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfgdOAAEBIQ Archspire - Human Murmuration]] (brutal tech) |
| 318 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giFNbj6ufG8 Arkaik - Malignant Ignorance]] (brutal tech) |
| 319 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uQ-FCFvh6o Arsis - The Face of My Innocence]] (melodic tech) |
| 320 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NolrcYGVJ_A Atheist - Mother Man]] (old-school tech) |
| 321 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGim2eNFuUk Atrocity - Deep in Your Subconscious]] (old-school tech) |
| 322 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHiPZS5Uipo Augury - Sovereigns Unknown]] (prog) |
| 323 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tBJKmksLgo Between the Buried and Me - The Double Helix of Extinction]] (prog) |
| 324 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESKUHQWq7qY Black Crown Initiate - Matriarch]] (prog) |
| 325 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKLBXWB4P_Q Blood Incantation - The Giza Power Plant]] (prog) |
| 326 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkNbTS7uhLE Cryptopsy - Slit Your Guts]] (brutal tech) |
| 327 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7IPg8lklB4 Cynic - How Could I]] (prog) |
| 328 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOfVqyIpRWE Cytotoxin - Ionosphere]] (brutal tech) |
| 329 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH56VOptIDI Death - Trapped in a Corner]] (old-school tech) |
| 330 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuwn_HwEUDk Decrepit Birth - Symbiosis]] (modern tech) |
| 331 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFZi68gAlqM Defeated Sanity - Consumed by Repugnance]] (brutal tech) |
| 332 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcnxlD7eNgQ Demilich - When the Sun Drank the Weight of Water]] (avant-tech) |
| 333 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mep7x1EZGCk Dir en grey - Different Sense]] (prog) |
| 334 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CbnpCRpM8g Disincarnate - Stench of Paradise Burning]] (old-school tech) |
| 335 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X135yzarhFQ The Faceless - Xenochrist]] (modern tech) |
| 336 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6tRJmCTVSM First Fragment - Gula]] (modern tech) |
| 337 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keIGxLH4luE Gigan - Beneath the Sea of Tranquility]] (avant-tech) |
| 338 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-XaaTqOICU Gojira - Flying Whales]] (prog) |
| 339 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4daKbtl4aVs Gorguts - Earthly Love]] (avant-tech) |
| 340 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBU1H-9yvmQ Gorod - Bekhten's Curse]] (melodic tech) |
| 341 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0aykoOXNv8 Hellwitch - Purveyor of Fear]] (old-school tech) |
| 342 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAAPcur-lOE Human Remains - Weeding Out the Thorns]] (avant-tech) |
| 343 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=608vwNHMFGY Inferi - A Betrayal Unforetold]] (melodic tech) |
| 344 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAsfTq7AMeY Job for a Cowboy - Children of Deceit]] (modern tech) |
| 345 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzqt04faIHw Martyr - Virtual Emotions]] (old-school tech) |
| 346 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Emp1jWGJTW8 Monotheist - Desolate, It Mourns Before Me]] (prog) |
| 347 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mJ5VzUM5Ts Monstrosity - Suffering to the Conquered]] (old-school tech) |
| 348 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaFHTNbFNGM Necrophagist - Only Ash Remains]] (modern tech) |
| 349 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44jRUTKDLYI Nile - Execration Text]] (brutal tech) |
| 350 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A1EVBjX6y0 Nocturnus - Droid Sector]] (old-school tech) |
| 351 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mesr2siegRg Obscura - The Anticosmic Overload]] (modern tech) |
| 352 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgoKYTz4u2s Ominous Ruin - Ritual]] (brutal tech) |
| 353 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeTNkPXRrVY Opeth - The Drapery Falls]] (prog) |
| 354 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBIubRaHACg Origin - The Aftermath]] (brutal tech) |
| 355 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eq_8hrj_5GQ Pyrrhon - The Happy Victim's Creed]] (avant-tech) |
| 356 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=598NC1TYeBY Revocation - Copernican Heresy]] (melodic tech) |
| 357 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8P02tzQ71E Rivers of Nihil - Circles in the Sky]] (prog) |
| 358 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QtzqL7F0qQ Severed Savior - Question]] (brutal tech) |
| 359 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3tqsmWEA88 Spawn of Possession - Church of Deviance]] (brutal tech) |
| 360 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzOM8Kjqkv0 Ulcerate - Abrogation]] (avant-tech) |
| 361 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2z_LOzdwu4 Vale of Pnath - Unburied]] (melodic tech) |
| 362 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6McDAyAmtI Virvum - Ad Rigorem]] (modern tech) |
| 363 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io8fm7Nnc90 Wormed - Tunnel of Ions]] (avant-tech) |
| 364 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpulEmWxLGk Your Chance to Die - Omega]] (melodic tech) |
| 365 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LgOqWTJXZU The Zenith Passage - Deus Deceptor]] (modern tech) |
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