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Michel Anoia is an avant-garde, technical death metal, and mathcore project from Lyon, France, active since 2013. They push extreme metal into cerebral, mathematically complex territory.
Microcosm is a technical death metal band from Brighton, England, active since 1993. With over three decades of activity, they deliver technically accomplished death metal.
Brutal Technical Death Metal / Deathcore out of Texas.
A technical death/thrash metal act from Venice, Miscreance has been delivering precision-driven extremity since 2016. The band channels the unlikely brutality of their lagoon city setting into complex, aggressive compositions.
Seattle's Misogyny have been delivering technical death metal since 2011, bringing the Pacific Northwest's characteristically sharp musicianship to a style defined by complex, shifting guitar work and brutal execution rooted in the upper echelon of the American technical death scene.
Missouri Quiet is a technical deathcore act from the Siberian city of Tyumen, active since 2012. The band delivers precision-driven extremity from one of Russia's most important oil cities.
Woodbridge, Virginia's Modulus deal in the dense, cerebral end of technical death metal, constructing tightly wound compositions that prioritize precision and complexity without losing sight of brutality. Active since 2017, they represent the craft-focused side of the DMV underground metal scene.
Monism is a technical death/thrash metal band from Kampen, the Netherlands, formed in 2019. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's Monochromatic Residua pursue technical death metal with intricate, precision-driven arrangements, channeling the city's underground metal tradition into complex, unrelenting brutality since 2018.
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