Technical death metal
The technical death metal (also tech death metal ) is a subgenre of death metal , the elements from the progressive rock and jazz fusion can be incorporated into this style of music. Associated with this is usually a much more complex structure of the arrangement than in classic Death Metal.
features
Technical Death Metal is based on melodies that contain elements of jazz fusion , progressive rock, death metal and also grindcore . The riffs are played in a low pitch, but are often faster than in classic Death Metal. The bass guitar is also often played with the tapping technique .
The instrumental passages are mostly very fast and varied. The lead guitar riffs are often continuous, fast, often repetitive and provided with numerous atonal tone sequences. The drum rhythm is also often kept at high speeds.
Important elements
- Technically demanding and fast guitar riffs and often with fast Tapping played lead guitar
- Fast blast beats , often effects such as a sudden decrease in tempo
- Deep guttural singing
- Intensive use of double bass and blast beats on drums
- Brutal and aggressive mood
- Texts are mostly about destruction and violence, e.g. T. autopsies (e.g. necrophagist )
Bands of this genre
The bands Death , Cynic and Atheist , who incorporated jazz elements into their style around 1990, as well as Morbid Angel , for whom technical skills became more and more important in the course of the band's history, are considered pioneers of the genre . Important bands of tech death metal today are:
- After the burial
- Allegaeon
- Anata
- Archspire
- Beneath the Massacre
- Beyond Creation
- Blotted Science
- Brain drill
- Cryptopsy
- Deadborn
- Decapitated
- Decrepit Birth
- Defeated sanity
- Fleshgod Apocalypse
- Fuck You and Die
- Gojira
- Gorod
- Illogicist
- Man must die
- Meshuggah
- Neuraxis
- Necrophagist
- Nile
- Obscura
- Origin
- Pit bulls in the nursery
- Profanity
- Psycroptic
- Punish
- Rings of Saturn
- Spawn of Possession
- Suffocation
- The Faceless
- Theory in Practice
- Trigger the Bloodshed
- Ulcerate
- Vildhjarta
- Visceral bleeding
Web links
- Description of the style (English)
- Tech Death Special (German)