Technical Death Metal

ffo Griefgod, so I guess melodic tech? idk I'm not great with labels, but don't sleep on this

Even more!

More "title track on S/T"

From their Facebook page:

“New single premieres early this Wednesday, Sept 11 over at Heavy Blog is Heavy! Available on all streaming platforms Friday, Sept 13.”

Another, another!

Light on certified tech this week, but some good ones

• Corpse Worship - Cemetery Anthems (Russia) (not really tech, but pretty cool)
• Grimaze - The Heart of a Collapsing Star (Bulgaria)

Another "title track from eponymous release" example!

How’d everyone like the new Vale? I see what people are saying about the stylistic shift, but this is still sick

• Teeth - The Will of Hate (USA-CA)
• Wintersun - Time II (Finland) (melodeath, but seems to be a big deal)

Bonus - deathcore:

• Oceano - Living Chaos (USA-IL)
• To The Grave - Everyone's a Murderer (AUS-NSW)

Nile and Fleshgod, what a week to have ears!

• Fleshgod Apocalypse - Opera (Italy)
• Nile - The Underworld Awaits Us All (USA-SC)
• Within the Ruins - Phenomena II (USA-MA) (core)

Light week, but the Carnosus single and album announcement are exciting!

• Carnosus - Within Throat, Within Heart (Single) (Sweden)
• Evilyn - Mondestrunken (International)
• Vile Rites - Senescence (USA-CA)

Let myself get pretty behind, here are the releases that jumped out last week, not all particularly tech.

• Anoxide - Morals & Dogma (UK-ENG)
• Becoming the Entity - Chronicles of the Trephine [...] [EP] (Mexico)
• Commorion - Purga Infernal [EP] (Colombia)
• Diamortal - Proceeding Inhumanity (Germany)
• Scopus Magnus - Magnum Scopus [EP] (Finland)
• Siphoned Life - Plagueland (USA-TX)

From the band via Facebook:

Whispered among worms were the rumors of a new album by death metal outfit Carnosus. Heavier and darker, slithering its way from Örebro, Sweden, comes Wormtales, a prequel to the critically acclaimed 2023 album, Visions of Infinihility. Wormtales contains some of the band's most impressive riffs thus far and once again lures the listener into the realm of infinihility.

Release date: October 18 on Willowtip Records

Track Listing:

1. Birthless
2. Within Throat, Within Heart
3. Neglectikon
4. Yearnings of A Rotten Spine
5. Worm Charmer
6. Harbinger of Woundism
7. Paradoxical Impulse
8. Wound of Wisdom
9. Cosmoclaustrum
10. Solace In Soil

Credits: Recorded and produced by Carnosus (except drums; recorded and produced by Robert Kukla & Dennis Rosic). Re-amped, mixed and mastered by Robert Kukla at Obsidian Recording Studios. Cover artwork by Timon Kokott.

Full album is coming out Aug. 23rd

• Carnophage - Matter of a Darker Nature (Turkey) (brutal tech)
• Parasitic Entity - Artificial Hell Construct [EP] (UK-ENG)

"Unquestionable Presence" is the second album by the death metal band Atheist. It was released in August 30, 1991 through Death Records (division of Metal Blade Records).

Tracklist:

1.Mother Man 0:00 2.Unquestionable Presence 4:34 3.Your Life's Retribution 8:40 4.Enthralled In Essence 11:57 5.An Incarnation's Dream 15:35 6.The Formative Years 20:27 7.Brains 23:58 8.And the Psychic Saw 27:39

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/15522858

Technical Death Metal is one of metal's most beloved and popular genres. But where exactly did it start from? Today, in this Metal Documentary series we analyze the history of bands like Cynic, Atheist, Death, and Pestilence to determine the true origins of one of metal's most famous and well-known genres.

Technical death metal (also referred to as tech-death) is a musical subgenre of death metal that began and developed in the early- to mid-1990s, with a particular focus on challenging, demanding instrumental skill and complex songwriting.

Technical experimentation in death metal began in the late 1980s and early 1990s by four bands that are often grouped together as "technical death metal's Big Four" – Death, Pestilence, Atheist, and Cynic – as well as Nocturnus; all but Pestilence being part of the Florida death metal scene.

Some of the distinct features of this genre include dynamic song structures, complex and atypical rhythmic structures, abundant use of diminished chords and arpeggios, frequent employment of odd-time chord progressions, and constant use of string skipping on the guitars. Basslines are usually complex, and the drums are extremely fast-paced with abundant use of blast beats and other extreme drumming techniques. The technical death metal genre has also been influenced by mostly jazz fusion, as well as thrash metal and progressive/technical-inspired heavy metal bands like Death, Megadeth, Slayer, Voivod, Kreator, Dark Angel, Coroner, Sadus, and Watchtower, the latter of whose second album Control and Resistance (1989) is often considered to be one of the sources of inspiration for the genre.

• Space Corpse (or Spacecorpse?) - Shapeshifter [EP] (USA-CO)
• Valsa Pintura - Plénitude [EP] (France) (instrumental tech)

Also, don't forget to catch Gojira playing the Olympic opening ceremony in a couple hours!

Bonus - misc eye-catching new releases since I last posted, listed loosely in reverse order of release:

• Abiosis - Hollowing the Mortal Form
• Serpentslain - Cognitive Dissonance [EP]
• August Mayhem - Incredulity (arguably deathcore)
• Commander - Angstridden (very groovy, ffo Griefgod, Eye of Horus)
• Lynchpin - ...This Mortal Coil [EP]
• Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails 10 year anniversary remix/remaster (I haven't done a close enough A:B listen to understand the difference, but damn is TFP a great album)
• Helvetskval - Hjarnspoken
• Abandon Agony - Dark Matter [EP]
• Replacire - The Center That Cannot Hold
• Severe Torture - Torn from the Jaws of Death (not tech, but gotta love these DM kings)
• The Fallen - S/T (arguably *core)
• Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God