Tech metal: Encyclopedia II - Tech metal - Bands

Tech metal - Bands

Some bands of this genre include:

• Aborted which is technical death metal
• Aghora which is progressive metal
• Atheist which is jazzy progressive death metal (note, the term "jazzy" is used as a descriptive adjective, not part of a genre title)
• Behold...The Arctopus which is avant garde progressive metal
• Between the Buried and Me which is technical progressive metalcore
• Botch which is technical hardcore/metalcore
• Burning Inside which is technical death metal
• Broken Hope which is brutal death metal
• Capharnaum which is technical metal/death metal
• Chaos Cycle which is into death metal with guttural grunt vocal touches and brutal blast beats death metal
• Converge which is noisey technical hardcore/metal
• Cynic which is jazzy progressive death metal
• Craw which is industrial metal/metalcore
• Cephalic Carnage which is grindcore
• Cryptopsy which is technical death metal
• DEATH which is death metal, later progressive death metal
• Deeds Of Flesh which is technical death metal
• Defiled which is brutal death metal
• Decapitated which is brutal death metal
• Demilich which is technical death metal
• Dillinger Escape Plan which is technical progressive metalcore
• Dysrhythmia which is progressive metal
• Edge of Sanity which is progressive death metal
• Gorguts which is technical death metal
• Hate Eternal which is technical death metal
• Into The Moat which is metalcore
• Ion Dissonance which is metalcore
• Lightning War which is cyber grindcore or cybergrind
• Martyr which is death metal in the vein of mid-period Death
• Meshuggah which is technical post-thrash
• Monstrosity which is brutal technical death metal
• Necrophagist which is technical death metal
• Nile which is technical death metal
• Origin which is technical deathgrind metal
• Psychotogen which is technical death metal
• Psycroptic which is technical death metal
• PsyOpus which is technical metalcore/death metal
• Quo Vadis which is technical melodic death metal
• Red Chord which is technical metalcore/grind
• Soilent Green which is a progressive metal/grindcore band.
• Spastic Ink which is progressive metal
• Spawn of Possession which is technical death metal
• Spiral Architect which is progressive metal
• Suffocation which is technical death metal
• The Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza which is grindcore
• The End which is technical noisey metalcore/deathcore
• The Number Twelve Looks Like You which is technical progressive metalcore/grindcore/(screamo)
• Vital Remains which is technical death metal
• Yattering which is technical death metal
• Zyklon which is blackened death metal.

• Clarification of the confusion: When saying a band is "tech" or "tech metal" it is only describing how the band sounds. It is not an accepted real genre of metal. The line is drawn thin of where an adjective like this becomes a subgenre, but as of now, "tech metal" is not one of them since every band described as "tech metal" is included within some other fundamental genre of metal. Bands such as Nile, Cryptopsy, Deeds of Flesh, and Necrophagist would never be considered to be in the same subgenre together with Spastic Ink, Aghora, and Dysrhythmia although they may all sound technical.

• The creation of "technical death metal" started in the late 80's/early 90's when death metal bands started writing more complex song structures with an increasing number of more drastic time signatures and tempo changes. This early implementation can be heard somewhat in early Morbid Angel albums, then later on in bands such as Suffocation, Monstrosity, and Vital Remains, and eventually to the mid-90's where it solidified as stable subgenre of death metal.

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Bands", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki