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Romain Goulon Project is a progressive/technical death metal project from Cannes on the French Riviera, formed in 2020. The project showcases virtuoso technical death metal from the Mediterranean coast of southeastern France.
Chicago's Roman Ring have been merging the surgical precision of technical death metal with the sheer brutality of deathcore since 2012. Their approach doesn't treat these as opposing instincts — the technicality adds depth to the breakdowns rather than undercutting them, and the result hits with both brain and gut.
Ankara technical death metal act formed in 2021, delivering intricate musicianship and extreme precision from Turkey's capital. Their technically demanding approach pushes death metal to its most complex expressions.
Reno, Nevada's SandVVitch arrived in 2025 armed with technical death metal's structural complexity and deathcore's visceral impact, assembling a sound that treats both subgenres as a single toolkit. The band's irreverent name belies music built on serious technical chops — dissonant, rhythmically unorthodox, and uninterested in playing it safe.
Technical death metal band from São Luís, Maranhão, formed in 2014. Their debut full-length New Dimensions was released in 2020 through Great Dane Records and Polymorphe Records, and the band contributed a cover of Death's 'Philosopher' to an international Death tribute in 2019.
Scarset Rebellion craft progressive and technical death metal from the Bayonne/Bordeaux corridor, building demanding compositions from the Basque-Aquitaine region. Emerging in 2025, they bring scarlet rebellion to southwestern France.
Technical death metal band from Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, originally founded in 2001 by guitarist/vocalist Silvio Machado and bassist Marcelo Ameal. The band disbanded after their last show in 2005 before reuniting with additional members Leo Schröder (guitar) and Felipe Veiga (drums) to finally record and release their debut demo Before the Beginning in 2023.
Saint Petersburg's Secateur deliver technical death metal from the former imperial capital since 2012. Named for the pruning tool, they channel the precision of horticultural cutting into technically exacting compositions.
Named after the haunting bone church outside Prague, Kansas City's Sedlec Ossuary have been building elaborate death metal architecture since 2015, working at the intersection of progressive structure and technical execution. Their music rewards patience as much as aggression, layering complex rhythms and shifting tempos over death metal foundations that never lose their brutality.
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