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You can't JUST be complex and make music that brings into the playing field some kind of emotion or feeling that makes the stuff worth listening to, so no.
Deathcore and metalcore suck?
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No shit, otherwise it'd just be sweeping over blastbeats, but the point of technical death metal is to be technical. I mean, there's the bands who don't set out to play tech death but wind up being technical enough to be lumped in, but then there's stuff like Braindrill, the Faceless, Necrophagist, etc, that clearly longs to be as tech as possible.
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Except Necrophagist and BtM are boring... I really dont see where this "emotion" comes from (Deicide's first full length showed a lot of emotion...)... and Nile is a completely different monster... they dont compare to most bands at all because they are doing something that no other death metal band really does unless it's imitating them...
Most tech death does seem lifeless imo, and when you find something that isnt... it can be good.. but it seems very rare.
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Faceless songwriting isnt as good and the mixing of styles is too much and boring.
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Well to me BTM and necrophagist arent boring and they are emotional and have great songwriting.
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Do you actually listen to more than 5 bands? Atheist honestly don't really qualify as tech death and aren't really relevant to this discussion.
Didn't say they were; I offered them as an example of stuff that makes a conscious effort to be technical. Their first album is really wankey technical deathcore, their new one is what would happen if you slapped Decrepit Birth together with a bunch of other tech death bands and then removed the good parts, but at least the deathcore and the keyboards are gone. I think they're going to keep using vocorders till someone compares them to Cynic, though.
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Atheist were one of the first technical death metal bands not doing "brutal" stuff a-la NYDM, so...no WAIF, you're wrong.
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They sound a lot more like progressive death metal than technical death metal. That said, tech death is kind of a vague term.
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I like how you can just say that after fellating Beneath the Massacre of all bands.
Let's not forget how emotional Necrophagist is too.
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