Top Ten Technical Death Metal Albums

[CiG]

Ordered:

Gorguts - Obscura
Demilich - Nespithe
Suffocation - Pierced from Within
!T.O.O.H.! - Pod vládou biče
Atheist - Unquestionable Presence
Death - Symbolic
Artificial Brain - Labyrinth Constellation
Psycroptic - The Isle of Disenchantment
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Decapitated - Winds of Creation

Decided to omit Nile because I always have trouble deciding on a favourite album. Also no doubles.

Non-album honourable mentions:

Nefas - Transfiguration to the Ancient's Form (EP)
Ferocity - Puzzled Into Various Spaces (demo)
Inertial Mass - Guest for Autopsy (demo)
Embrionic Death - Stream of Solidarity (demo)
Nefas - He Was Born (demo)

 

[CiG]

Holy shit I forgot Symbolic. I don't listen to Cabinet as much as the rest/I used to, so bumped. Edited.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

I thought Necrotism would, but wasn't too sure either. I know Michael Amott and Bill Steer goes nuts on some tight guitar playing on that album.

Evisceration Plague rules! Currently the only CC album I own tho.

for sure, and they arguably got better and better as far as chops go. But that album and Symphonies are by faaar their best albums imo.

Ordered:
Decided to omit Nile because I always have trouble deciding on a favourite album.

nice looking list And while i love Nile, i dont think any of their albums are god tier technical death metal, some do come close but there are quite a few 4.5 star albums i had to leave off. I think their strongpoint is the fact that they are one of the most consistent technical death metal bands, or shit one of the most consistent death metal bands overall. They've been releasing good albums for over two decades and that's not something we can say about most other bands

 

[CiG]

And while i love Nile, i dont think any of their albums are god tier technical death metal, some do come close but there are quite a few 4.5 star albums i had to leave off.

I agree, probably why I was unable to choose an album. Nile are one of the best bands at touching upon "old school" death metal, technical death metal and brutal death metal but because of that they don't particularly dominate any of those subgenres/styles. Like you say, they're just extremely consistent and reliable and at times maybe even underrated.

 

[Sophii]

Jack of all trades, but king of none. Nothing wrong with that~

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

tbh i dont hear much(if any) old school death metal with them. But they definitely have their own signature sound that cannot be mistaken for anyone else.

 

[CiG]

tbh i dont hear much(if any) old school death metal with them.

I was thinking more about their pre-debut album stuff, but even then yeah OSDM probably isn't the right label.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

speaking of modern tech-death, The Faceless are a true progressive/technical death metal band that pretty much changed their sound on all of their albums from their deathcore influenced debut all the way to this mindfuckery....

... up there with my favorite track from them ....

 

[Sophii]

speaking of modern tech-death. The Faceless are a true progressive/technical death metal band that pretty much changed their sound on all of their albums from their deathcore influenced debut all the way to this mindfuckery....

... up there with my favorite track from them ....

Man I'm incredibly hit and miss with this band, but I'm not gonna deny how fucking nuts they are, even from their adolescent beginning. Autotheist will always be my favorite album of theirs. I need to check out their newest shit for sure.

 

[Krow]

I mean it’s not really my thing but I’m awake after watching McGregor shock the shit out of me soooo.

1. Demilich - Nespithe
2. Nile - Amongst the Catacombs of Nephren-Ka
3. Atheist - Piece of Time
4. Cryptopsy- None so Vile
5. Suffocation - Effigy of the Forgotten
6. Dying Fetus - Destroy the Opposition
7. Lykathea Aflame - Elvenefris
8. Mithras - Worlds Beyond the Veil
9. Psycroptic - The Scepter of the Ancients
10. Decrepit Birth - Diminishing Between Worlds

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

... god tier progressive tech-death that needs to be mentioned here.

 

[Slayed Necros]

Never delved too deep into tech-death but I like/liked these a lot:

Demilich - Nespithe
Atrocity - Longing For Death
Suffocation - Pierced From Within
Disaffected - Vast
Monstrosity - Millennium
Cryptopsy - None So Vile
Gorguts - The Erosion of Sanity
Atheist - Piece of Time
Anata - Under a Stone With No Inscription