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This is a list of technical death metal bands .
Technical death metal (sometimes called tech-death) is a
musical subgenre of
death metal music that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures.
Band
Country
Formed
Notes
7 Horns 7 Eyes
USA
2006
[1]
Abnormality
USA
2005
[2]
Aborted
Belgium
1995
[3]
Abysmal Dawn
USA
2003
Abysmal Torment
Malta
2000
Aeon
Sweden
1999
[4]
Anata
Sweden
1993
[5]
Archspire
Canada
2009
[6]
Arsis
USA
2000
[7]
As They Sleep
USA
2003
[8]
Atheist
USA
1984–1992, 1993–1994, 2006–present
Augury
Canada
2001
[9]
Becoming the Archetype
USA
1999
[10]
Beneath the Massacre
Canada
2004
[11]
[12]
Between the Buried and Me
USA
2000–present
[13]
[14]
[15]
[16]
Beyond Creation
Canada
2005–present
The Black Dahlia Murder
USA
2001-present
Blood Incantation
USA
2011–present
Blotted Science
USA
2005–present
[17]
Born of Osiris
USA
2003
[18]
Brain Drill
USA
2005
[9]
[19]
[20]
[21]
Cannibal Corpse
USA
1988
[22]
[23]
Capharnaum
USA
1993–1999, 2003–2009
[24]
Carcass
UK
1985–1996, 2007–present
Cephalic Carnage
USA
1992
[25]
Circle of Contempt
Finland
2006–present
The Contortionist
USA
2007
[26]
Contrarian
USA
2012–present
Coprofago
Chile
1993
[27]
Cryptic Shift
UK
2013
[28]
Cryptopsy
Canada
1992
[29]
[30]
[31]
Cynic
USA
1987–1994, 2006–present
Deadsquad
Indonesia
2006
[32]
Death
USA
1984–1996, 1998–2001
[33]
Decapitated
Poland
1996
[34]
Decrepit Birth
USA
2001
[35]
Deeds of Flesh
USA
1993
Defeated Sanity
Germany
1994
Demilich
Finland
1990–1993, 2006, 2010, 2015–present
Desecravity
Japan
2007-present
Divine Heresy
USA
2006
Dying Fetus
USA
1991
[36]
Entheos
USA
2015
[37]
Extol
Norway
1994
[38]
Fallujah
USA
2007
[39]
The Faceless
USA
2004
[40]
Fleshgod Apocalypse
Italy
2007
Gojira
France
1996
[41]
Gorod
France
1997
Gorguts
Canada
1989
[42]
Grimaze
Bulgaria
2013
[43]
In Battle
Sweden
1996
[44]
Into the Moat
USA
2001
[45]
Knights of the Abyss
USA
2005
[46]
Lost Soul
Poland
1990–1995, 1997–present
Malignancy
USA
1992
Man Must Die
UK
2002
Meshuggah
Sweden
1987
[47]
[1]
Monstrosity
USA
1990
[42]
Necrophagist
Germany
1992
[48]
Neuraxis
Canada
1994
[49]
Ne Obliviscaris
Australia
2003
[50]
Nile
USA
1993
[51]
Nocturnus
USA
1988
[52]
Obscura
Germany
2002
[9]
Oppressor
USA
1991
Origin
USA
1990
[53]
Persefone
Andorra
2001
[54]
Pestilence
Netherlands
1986
[55]
Psycroptic
Australia
1999
[56]
[57]
[58]
Pyrrhon
USA
2008
Quo Vadis
Canada
1992
The Red Chord
USA
1999
[59]
Revocation
USA
2006
[60]
Rings of Saturn
USA
2009
[61]
Rivers of Nihil
USA
2009
[62]
Sadist
Italy
1991
Soreption
Sweden
2005
Spawn of Possession
Sweden
1997
Suffocation
USA
1989
[63]
Sylosis
UK
2000
Through the Eyes of the Dead
USA
2003
Trigger the Bloodshed
UK
2006
[64]
Ulcerate
New Zealand
2000
Visceral Bleeding
Sweden
1999
Wormed
Spain
1998
[65]
The Zenith Passage
USA
2012
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