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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by with reliable sources.
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]
Blood Incantation USA 2011–present
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
Born of Osiris USA 2003 [17]
Brain Drill USA 2005 [9][18][19][20]
Cannibal Corpse USA 1988 [21][22]
Carcass UK 1986–1996, 2007–present
Cephalic Carnage USA 1992 [23]
Circle of Contempt Finland 2006–present
The Contortionist USA 2007 [24]
Contrarian USA 2012–present
Coprofago Chile 1993 [25]
Cryptic Shift United Kingdom 2013 [26]
Cryptopsy Canada 1992 [27][28][29]
Cynic USA 1987–1994, 2006–present
Death USA 1983 [30]
Decapitated Poland 1996 [31]
Decrepit Birth USA 2001 [32]
Deeds of Flesh USA 1993
Defeated Sanity Germany 1994
Divine Heresy USA 2006
Dying Fetus USA 1991 [33]
Extol Norway 1994 [34]
Fallujah USA 2007 [35]
The Faceless USA 2004 [36]
Fleshgod Apocalypse Italy 2007
Gojira France 2001 [citation needed]
Gorod France 1997–present
Gorguts Canada 1989 [37]
Grimaze Bulgaria 2013 [38]
In Battle Sweden 1996 [39]
Into the Moat USA 2001 [40]
Knights of the Abyss USA 2005 [41]
Malignancy USA 1992
Man Must Die UK 2002
Meshuggah Sweden 1987 [42]
Monstrosity USA 1990 [37]
Necrophagist Germany 1992 [43]
Neuraxis Canada 1994 [44]
Ne Obliviscaris Australia 2003 [45]
Nile USA 1993 [46]
Nocturnus USA 1988 [47]
Obscura Germany 2002 [9]
Origin USA 1997 [48]
Pestilence Netherlands 1986 [49]
Psycroptic Australia 1999 [50][51][52]
Pyrrhon USA 2008
The Red Chord USA 1999 [53]
Revocation USA 2000
Rings of Saturn USA 2009 [54]
Rivers of Nihil USA 2009
Soreption Sweden 2005
Spawn of Possession Sweden 1997
Suffocation USA 1989 [55]
Trigger the Bloodshed United Kingdom 2006 [56]
Ulcerate New Zealand 2000
Visceral Bleeding Sweden 1999
Wormed Spain 1998 [57]
The Zenith Passage USA 2012

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