Technical Death Metal

The Technical Death Metal ( also tech death metal ) is a subgenre of death metal, which can be incorporated into this style of music elements from progressive rock and jazz fusion. This is associated with a usually much more complex structure of the arrangement from the classic Death Metal.

Features

The Technical Death Metal is based on melodies that contain elements of jazz fusion, progressive rock, death metal and grindcore. The riffs are played in a deep tone, but are frequently faster than in the classic Death Metal. The bass guitar is often played with the technique Tapping.

The instrumental passages are mostly very fast and varied. The lead guitar riffs are often continuous, fast, often repetitive and provided with numerous atonal melodies. Also, the drum beat is often held in high speeds.

Important elements

  • Technically challenging and fast guitar riffs and often played with fast lead guitar tapping
  • Fast Blast beats, often effects like sudden reduction of the rate
  • Deep guttural vocals
  • Intensive use of double bass and blast beats on drums
  • Brutal and aggressive mood
  • Lyrics are usually of destruction and violence, some autopsies (eg Necrophagist )

Bands of this genre

As a pioneer of the genre, especially the bands Death, Cynic and Atheist, the processed elements of jazz around 1990 in her style, as well as Morbid Angel, where technical skills throughout the band's history gained increasing importance apply. Important bands of today's tech - death metal are:

Atonality Blastbeat Cynic (band) Atheist (Band) Decapitated (band) Gojira (Band) Gorod (band) Martyr (Band) Neuraxis (band) Nile (Band) Obscura (band) Origin (Band) Suffocation (band)
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