List of technical death metal bands

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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.

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BandCountryFormedNotes
7 Horns 7 Eyes USA2006 [1]
Abnormality USA2005 [2]
Aborted Belgium1995 [3]
Abysmal Dawn USA2003
Abysmal Torment Malta2000
Aeon Sweden1999 [4]
Anata Sweden1993 [5]
Archspire Canada2009 [6]
Arsis USA2000 [7]
As They Sleep USA2003 [8]
Atheist USA1984–1992, 1993–1994, 2006–present
Augury Canada2001 [9]
Becoming the Archetype USA1999 [10]
Beneath the Massacre Canada2004 [11] [12]
Between the Buried and Me USA2000–present [13] [14] [15] [16]
Beyond Creation Canada2005–present
The Black Dahlia Murder USA2001-present
Blood Incantation USA2011–present
Blotted Science USA2005–present [17]
Born of Osiris USA2003 [18]
Brain Drill USA2005 [9] [19] [20] [21]
Cannibal Corpse USA1988 [22] [23]
Capharnaum USA1993–1999, 2003–2009 [24]
Carcass UK1985–1996, 2007–present
Cephalic Carnage USA1992 [25]
Circle of Contempt Finland2006–present
The Contortionist USA2007 [26]
Contrarian USA2012–present
Coprofago Chile1993 [27]
Cryptic Shift UK2013 [28]
Cryptopsy Canada1992 [29] [30] [31]
Cynic USA1987–1994, 2006–present
Deadsquad Indonesia2006 [32]
Death USA1984–1996, 1998–2001 [33]
Decapitated Poland1996 [34]
Decrepit Birth USA2001 [35]
Deeds of Flesh USA1993
Defeated Sanity Germany1994
Demilich Finland1990–1993, 2006, 2010, 2015–present
Desecravity Japan2007-present
Divine Heresy USA2006
Dying Fetus USA1991 [36]
Entheos USA2015 [37]
Extol Norway1994 [38]
Fallujah USA2007 [39]
The Faceless USA2004 [40]
Fleshgod Apocalypse Italy2007
Gojira France1996 [41]
Gorod France1997
Gorguts Canada1989 [42]
Grimaze Bulgaria2013 [43]
In Battle Sweden1996 [44]
Into the Moat USA2001 [45]
Knights of the Abyss USA2005 [46]
Lost Soul Poland1990–1995, 1997–present
Malignancy USA1992
Man Must Die UK2002
Meshuggah Sweden1987 [47] [1]
Monstrosity USA1990 [42]
Necrophagist Germany1992 [48]
Neuraxis Canada1994 [49]
Ne Obliviscaris Australia2003 [50]
Nile USA1993 [51]
Nocturnus USA1988 [52]
Obscura Germany2002 [9]
Oppressor USA1991
Origin USA1990 [53]
Persefone Andorra2001 [54]
Pestilence Netherlands1986 [55]
Psycroptic Australia1999 [56] [57] [58]
Pyrrhon USA2008
Quo Vadis Canada1992
The Red Chord USA1999 [59]
Revocation USA2006 [60]
Rings of Saturn USA2009 [61]
Rivers of Nihil USA2009 [62]
Sadist Italy1991
Soreption Sweden2005
Spawn of Possession Sweden1997
Suffocation USA1989 [63]
Sylosis UK2000
Through the Eyes of the Dead USA2003
Trigger the Bloodshed UK2006 [64]
Ulcerate New Zealand2000
Visceral Bleeding Sweden1999
Wormed Spain1998 [65]
The Zenith Passage USA2012

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