Post EVERY Tech Death band you know of, and best songs/album

[dolphz]

Originally posted by Trapped
*shrug*

Well, i wouldn't class it is technical at all.
I would maybe consider it progressive... with lots of riff changes and time changes.

So the difference would be??

 

[Useful Idiot]

I haven't heard enough Atheist or Pestilence. What are their best albums and some better tracks to check out?

 

[Useful Idiot]

Someone...? Anyone?

 

[RETIREDTrapped]

Atheist - Unquestionable Presence: Check out "Brains" and "Unquestionable Presence" first, awesome album.

Atheist - Elements "Elements" and "Mineral"

Pestilence - Spheres: "Mind Reflections", "Changing Perspectives", I love their earlier stuff too, but it's not technical death, it's just thrashy/death stuff, pretty cool. Spheres and Testimony are technical/Jazz though, both GREAT albums, pretty bizarre and out there.

Alarum - 2002 "Woven Imbalance" go here: http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/74/alarum2.html

 

[RETIREDTrapped]

So the difference would be??

BIG difference... Stuff like Atheist, Cynic, later Pestilence has technical riffs, odd time riffs, especially atheist and cynic...

North from here is STRUCTURALLY complex as opposed to being technical in terms of playing and riffs used... listen to something like Cynics "Uroboric Forms", and note how the riffs themselves are complicated, and then listen to "Fields of Blood, Harvester of Hate", and note that the riffs themselves are 80's (possibly more early 90's style though, for the heavier ones) thrash riffs, and that the way they acheive that "technical" sound is through changing the riff quite often... it's a good trick, Earlier death like Human did the same thing, not very technical in terms of the riffs or guitarplaying, but the riff and tempo etc changes heaps to give the illusion of technicality...

If you like the "Sentenced" form of technicality, in terms of structure and time changes, you might like to check out Nevermore's "The Politics of Ecstasy", songs like "The Learning" and "42147" use that same idea, cool thrashy riffs, and lots of time changes to give the "feel" of technicality, but without making it impossible to follow, like say Cynic can be at times...

hope that clears it up

-Trapped

 

[SpeakUSAorDie]

Death
Suffocation
Decapitated
Cryptopsy
Quo Vadis
Dying Fetus
etc.
Sorry, Im not naming songs.. DL any songs from these bands and you'll get an idea.

 

[dolphz]

Trapped-
Actually I love Nevermore PoE, so you hit a nerve there. I don't have cynic so I can't compare the two. I guess we could argue this point forever, but I think it's basically a matter of opinion.

By the way, from THE COLLECTOR'S GUIDE TO HEAVY METAL, by Martin Popoff pg403 -"North From Here is a dizzying blast of technical death metal."

So there