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Portsmouth-based outfit that evolved from melodic death/thrash roots into a technical death metal powerhouse across three albums since 2007. Winners of the 2009 Metal to the Masses competition at Bloodstock, their recordings at 16th Cellar Studios in Rome earned praise from Terrorizer for their technical fury.
Bloody Violence is a technical death metal band from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed around 2013–2014. The band released their debut EP "Obliterate" in February 2014, a three-track release recorded at Studio Hurricane and produced by Sebastian Carsin, establishing them as part of the growing Porto Alegre extreme metal scene.
Spanish deathcore band from Madrid, formed in 2011, whose sound evolved from technical deathcore toward symphonic deathcore. Their stylistic shift reflects an increasingly epic and orchestral approach to extremity.
Two-piece technical death metal outfit from Lourdes, France, featuring Romain Berger on guitars and drum programming alongside Christine on bass. Their releases including Shred It 'Til You Make It showcase surgically precise riffing with a self-aware sense of humor.
Spanish technical death metal band from Madrid, formed in 2014. They deliver surgically precise technical death metal from the Spanish capital.
Technical death metal band from Cernay in Alsace, formed in 2017 by members of Tortured Soul and Perverted. Their self-titled debut blends brutal and technical death metal with black metal undercurrents across tracks like Modern Slavery and Educated By Fists.
Burn the Mankind is a technical death metal and grindcore band from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, founded by guitarist Marcos Moura, a former member of Brazilian death metal act Nephasth. The band released their debut album "To Beyond" in 2015 and followed it with the conceptual EP "Chaos Matter" in 2020 via Cianeto Discos, the latter built around the four phases of human alchemy. Their current lineup includes members with ties to several prominent Brazilian extreme metal bands.
A progressive and technical death metal band from Champaign, Illinois, Caecus was active from 2012 before splitting up, developing a sound that merged intricate, shifting compositions with death metal brutality.
Los Angeles progressive/technical death metal outfit active since the mid-2010s, weaving complex rhythmic structures and melodic density into a forward-thinking extreme metal framework.
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