Best/Your favorite technical death metal album

[V.V.V.V.V.]

If you disagree that that is a technical death album, you give up any intelligence you could have had prior to admitting that tbh

If anything, you have to admit that it was at least proto-technical death metal.

 

[omnipotence]

One thorough listen of Claws of Laughter Dead alone should be enough to convince anyone.

The album cover... that is supposed to a hand grasping a red light, right? It would go along with the title of course, and I can't view it as anything else.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

It is a hand covering the flash of a camera, I'm guessing tinted red.

 

[DarkBliss]

I never really examined it closely myself, but now that you've said it, could be...

 

[Mort Divine]

If you disagree that that is a technical death album, you give up any intelligence you could have had prior to admitting that tbh

If anything, you have to admit that it was at least proto-technical death metal.

Pretty much, I mean aside from bands like Atheist and Cynic that album was about as technical as Death metal got at that time.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Indeed, and that was kind of the point I was making. If anything it was the most defiantly/obstinately technical death metal album in Sweden.

 

[HaggardBastard]

Soulside Journey by far. That's also probably my favorite death metal album ever, period.

 

[Zephyrus]

I'm still digesting Soulside Journey. It's a tough cookie, I guess.

 

[CF87]

Effigy is tech death?

No and not even for the time. I'm not sure why someone would think so.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

It absolutely is. I think your ears are very much broken. It was the first technical brutal death album ever.

 

[waif]

I'm still digesting Soulside Journey. It's a tough cookie, I guess.

Indeed. Amazing cover...good stuff.

 

[Starwind85]

Lykathea Aflame- Elvenfris(not sure if this really counts)
Death- TSoP
Gorguts- Obscura

 

[Bitencourt29]

Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Necrophagist - Onset of Putrefaction
Atheist - Elements
Gorod - Leading Vision
Anata - Under a Stone with no Inscription
Cynic - Focus
Psycroptic - Symbols of Failure

Thanks to UM's Recommendations Forum and tips from some of you guys, I found a bunch of amazing Tech Death Metal bands, and bought a few cds. I couldn't find, though, anything by some bands like Brain Drill, Gory Blister, Pestilence or Spawn of Posession. I'll probably import some of their stuff.

Right now, tech death is my favourite sub-genre or whatever it's called.

Interesting to read about "Elements". People who don't like it tend to point the jazzy parts - that's just what makes it so special, and different; A real piece of art IMO.

 

[blood_drunk]

Beneath The Massacre - Mechanics of Dysfunction

IMO it's one of the best technical death metal albums ever made. Amazing stuff from quebec

 

[challenge_everything]

Quebec DM rules

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

It's a pretty flat and emotionless album, but fuck if it isn't catchy with some heavy as shit metalcore breakdowns.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Interesting to read about "Elements". People who don't like it tend to point the jazzy parts - that's just what makes it so special, and different; A real piece of art IMO.

It's more the lack of Steve Flynn coupled with the lack of good production that turns me off. I can't help but compare it to the brilliance of Unquestionable Presence.

 

[Bitencourt29]

It's more the lack of Steve Flynn coupled with the lack of good production that turns me off. I can't help but compare it to the brilliance of Unquestionable Presence.

The "Elements" production doesn't bother me, TBH.

My copy was released through Relapse, and it comes with a fine booklet with the album's history and comments of Kelly Shaefer on its creation and recording process.

Best part is, it comes with a Live Radio Performance from 1992 with some five or six songs out of "Unquestionable Presence". They all sound amazing, I must say.

I'm definitely getting a copy.

 

[Satanstoenail]

Best part is, it comes with a Live Radio Performance from 1992 with some five or six songs out of "Unquestionable Presence". They all sound amazing, I must say.

Now that I'd like to hear.

I'm definitely getting a copy.

Good work.