Technical death metal
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| Technical death metal | |
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Late 1980s, United States
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| Mainstream popularity | Low |
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| Brutal death metal - Slam death metal | |
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Technical death metal (also called tech death for short), is a term used to describe bands in the subgenre death metal that focus on more complex rhythms and song structures. As death metal bands began further exploring the genre, they experimented with a variety of song structures, tempos, and playing techniques from other genres to create music that changed the style. As a result of such experimentation, such as the works of Cynic, Atheist and Cryptopsy, the subform of tech death established itself as a complex and varied musical style.
Technical death metal incorporates a variety of influences from genres such as jazz fusion, progressive rock and European classical music into general death metal aesthetics to compose music that is thought to be unexpected, difficult to play and often difficult to comprehend. Songs tend to be written without distinct choruses, with varied or layered time signatures, and sometimes dissonant or atonal guitar riffs.
More technical experimentations in death metal started in the late 1980s and early 1990s by bands such as Death, Morbid Angel, Suffocation, Monstrosity, and Atheist. In 1989 Atheist's debut album Piece of Time came out followed by Nocturnus's The Key in 1990. In 1991 Death released Human. This album and later Death albums have proven influential on 1990s technical death metal bands.[1] Other early technical death albums are Effigy of the Forgotten (1991) by Suffocation, Considered Dead (1991) by Gorguts, Nespithe (1993) by Demilich and Focus (1993) by Cynic. While Cynic became recognised for their technicality, it wasn't fully understood until the mid 1990s when other bands created music that furthered what were then the borders of death metal.
Bands currently heralded as present-day icons for technical death metal include Nile, Necrophagist, Decapitated, Beneath The Massacre, Spawn of Possession, Psycroptic and Anata.
[edit] Bands
Some notable bands of this genre include:
- Aletheian[2][3]
- Anata[4]
- Arsis[5]
- Atheist[6]
- Beneath the Massacre[7]
- Brain Drill
- Cephalic Carnage[8]
- Coprofago[9]
- Cynic[10]
- Cryptopsy[11][12]
- Decapitated[13]
- Demilich[14]
- Devolved[15]
- Gorguts[16]
- Iniquity[17]
- Lethargy[18]
- Lykathea Aflame[19]
- Meshuggah[20][21][22]
- Necrophagist[23]
- Negativa[24][25]
- Neuraxis[26]
- Nile[27]
- Opeth
- Origin[28]
- Pavor[29]
- Pestilence (Testimony of the Ancients, Spheres)
- Polluted Inheritance[30]
- Psycroptic[31]
- Quo Vadis[32][33][34]
- Spawn of Possession[35]
- Suffocation[36]
- Sympathy[37]
- Theory in Practice[38]
- Visceral Bleeding[39]
- VUVR[40]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Death band page @ BNR Metal
- ^ Aletheian - Dying Vine review @ Metal Review
- ^ Aletheian - Dying Vine review @ Metal Observer
- ^ Anata - Under A Stone With No Inscription review @ Metal Observer
- ^ Arsis band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Atheist - Unquestionable Presence review @ Metal Observer
- ^ Beneath the Massacre band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Cephalic Carnage band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Coprofago band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Cynic band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Cryptopsy band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Cryptopsy review @ Maelstrom
- ^ Decapitated band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Demilich band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Devolved band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Gorguts band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Iniquity band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Lethargy band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Lykathea Aflame band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ [Bowar]. Top 10 Heavy Metal CDs Of 2005 @ About.com: Heavy Metal. Retrieved on 2007-06-25.
- ^ Meshuggah band page @ Metal Storm. Retrieved on 2007-06-28.
- ^ Ben Mitchell. Review of "Nothing" @ Blender. Retrieved on 2007-06-28.
- ^ Necrophagist band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Negativa review @ Global Domination
- ^ Negativa review @ Lambgoat
- ^ Neuraxis band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Nile band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Origin band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Pavor band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Polluted Inheritance band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Psycroptic band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Quo Vadis band page @ BNR Metal
- ^ Quo Vadis - Defiant Imagination review @ Metal Observer
- ^ Quo Vadis band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Spawn of Possession band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Suffocation band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Sympathy band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Theory in Practice band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Visceral Bleeding band page @ Encyclopaedia Metallum
- ^ Band: Vuvr - Librarius Metallicus
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