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State Of Unrest (2023)
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A technical death metal outfit launched in Avignon in 2024, Seroth represents the newest wave of precision-obsessed extremity emerging from southern France. Their intricate compositions prioritize dizzying fretwork and rhythmic complexity over sheer heaviness alone.
Spokane, Washington's Serpentspire have been one of the Pacific Northwest's most technically demanding death metal outfits since 2016, building elaborate, riff-dense compositions that push technical death metal into labyrinthine territory.
A young technical death metal outfit from Huntsville, Alabama, Serratia formed in 2024 and immediately set their sights on clinical precision and surgical riff construction. Their name — borrowed from the rod-shaped bacterium — signals an interest in the microscopic and malignant, matching a sound built on rapid-fire fretwork and punishing rhythmic density.
Seven Daily Sins deliver technically demanding progressive death metal out of Minsk, layering complex time signatures and intricate guitar work over crushing heaviness. Their approach favors precision and compositional ambition, pushing the boundaries of extreme metal with mathematical intensity.
Combining neoclassical precision with technical death metal ferocity, Seven Works of Mercy formed in Grenoble in 2024 and takes its name from the Caravaggio masterwork. Their compositional approach interweaves baroque ornamentation with blast beats and guttural vocals.
Kirov's Shiftdown merge death, sludge, and technical death metal from the Vyatka region since 2017. Their gear-reduction name channels deceleration into compositions of multi-genre complexity from eastern Russia.
New York's Shiro-Ishii — named for the Imperial Japanese Army Unit 731 commander — combines technical death metal's surgical precision with grindcore's convulsive brutality, making for a relentlessly punishing and disturbing listen since 2018.
San Francisco's Shotgun Facelift take the experimental and technical end of deathcore into genuinely unpredictable territory, founded in 2020 and building a sound that treats the genre's heaviness as raw material for something far more dissonant and architecturally unusual.
An Albany, New York-based technical death metal outfit formed in 2022, Skeptic pursues the labyrinthine compositional complexity the genre demands — intricate riffing and rhythmic precision in service of an unyielding sonic assault.
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