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| Technical death metal | |
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| Stylistic origins: | Death metal, progressive metal, jazz fusion and often (but not always) European classical music |
| Cultural origins: | Late 1980s, United States |
| Typical instruments: | Electric guitar - Bass guitar - Drums |
| Mainstream popularity: | Almost nonexistent, except among Death metal fans |
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Technical death metal (called also tech death for short or progressive death metal), is a term used to describe bands in the subgenre death metal. 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] Death band page @ BNR Metal 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. Swedish progressive death metal band Opeth may arguably be considered as technical death metal due to their will to experiment with different styles of music, even though they are known for Scandinavian death metal
Some notable bands of this genre include:
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