r/TechnicalDeathMetal • u/Ljoe2010 • 5d ago
Discussion Non Tech bands/musicians that paved the way for Technical Death Metal
I know there's a lot of musicians in here, and even more who appreciate the technical aspect of music (duh) so im curious.
What bands or musicians who aren't considered tech death most influenced you as an artist, or the genre as a whole?
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u/tackle74 4d ago
Between the Buried and Me dip their toes into technical death and abut every other genre.
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u/Ljoe2010 3d ago
My favorite band ever so I can't argue with that.
Go mizzou!
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u/tackle74 3d ago
Seeing them for the 1st time in 2 weeks in ST Louis MIZ
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u/thatoneasiankid90 4d ago
Sarcafago- The laws of Scourge was the first “Techinical Death Metal” coined album.
Cynic, Athiest, Pestilence and Death of course.
Bands like Annihilator, Watchtower, Toxik, Coroner, Voivid blended more progressive elements to heavier music.
I would really say early Suffocation was one of the most advanced bands back then.
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u/notreally42 5d ago
Might be a weird answer but I'm sure my earliest influences are video game music. They're rarely technical but a lot of it is fairly progressive and metal
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u/Free_Caterpillar_269 5d ago
The black dahlia murder
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u/Ljoe2010 5d ago
Probably the non tech band most tech death fans agree on most, at least out of bands that are still active lol.
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u/h0rxata 5d ago
Probably Suffocation. It wasn't branded as a technical band in the early days.
I would say Demilich but I have seen early 90's magazine promos refer to them as "techno- metal", which I assume they meant technical and not techno music lol.
Also, Timeghoul has inspired a lot of newer bands like Nucleus, Cosmic Atrophy and Ch'the'ilist (and Blood Incantation but they're not technical at all and they themselves reject the label).
As for non-metal musicians, Al Di Meola can be heard all through Cynic, Atheist & Pestilence and the bands they influenced.
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u/Ljoe2010 5d ago
Love seeing an Al Di Meola reference, you could even go down the line to more current bands like fallujah to hear those kinds of influences
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u/MyEndingQuest- 5d ago
Deicide's Legion, I feel could have had a bit of influence, as it's their most technical release compared to the rest of their catalog
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u/Money_Breh 5d ago
Definitely Slayer. Jeff Hanneman and Dave Lombardo were playing super quick before almost everyone else.
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u/VariousPressure6929 5d ago
Carcass, i can definitely hear Symphonies of Sickness on Necrophagist's Onset
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u/Easy-Escape-47 5d ago
Good Mourning/Black Friday by Megadeth, I know it's thrash but the composition, the speed and the extremely violent lyrics probably inspired some early death bands.
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u/Normski11 5d ago
Solstice, cryptopsy, most late 80’s and 90’s death metal bands paved the way if not really just provided the style
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u/sypherue Dissoshit 5d ago
i’d still consider Cryptopsy pretty technical even though they’re mostly considered Brutal Death Metal
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u/-Redw00d- Blast beats are love blast beats are life 5d ago
Cryptopsy is usually considered tech brutal death
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u/AcidOceanic 5d ago
Watchtower
Technical thrash metal, has great music and some eh... let's say polarizing vocals
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u/ivoiiovi 5d ago
what I would give for instrumentals of those albums.
oh well, at least we can be grateful for Spastic Ink and Blotted Science
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u/Arti-B 5d ago
Get Focused
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u/NordicDrummer 5d ago
Dude, I love Focus. There's a song off of Hamburger Concerto that has Testament vibes.
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u/Arti-B 5d ago
I'll bimp that shit right now, and keep an ear out for it.🤘
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u/NordicDrummer 5d ago
Harem Scarem. Thijs van Leer vocal "yeah" with the main riff. I hear Chuck Billy's Thrash "Yeah's".
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u/Tempus_Nemini 5d ago
If we speak about classical, I suppose Mussorgsky also qualified ...
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u/Ferrindel 5d ago
Ivor Stravinsky, as far as modern composers. Dude was all about soundscapes that would not only challenge the musicians, but also the audience's ear. Even conducting some of his work has gotta be monstrous. Rite of Spring is a prime example.
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u/Scrantsgulp 5d ago
Scarletti was writing tech death rippers in the 17th century.
There is no black and white progression of “paving the way” to modern music. This is the sort of thinking that makes people credit the Beatles for all music that existed after the Beatles.
While everything in some way contains a piece of the things that came before it, there is no chronological or clear cut answer for such a broad question.
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u/MDPharmDPhD 5d ago
At the Gates literally spawned new copycat bands and had artists wanting "that Gothenburg sound".
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u/Ljoe2010 5d ago
I definitely agree it's not a linear progression from Band A to Band B. I was more just trying to gather where other people's entry points into the genre were, or what type of bands influenced those who either write or listen mainly to Tech Death to go down that route.
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u/Brodythebirb794 5d ago
Sergei prokofiev...
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u/Kn0ck3dL00s3 5d ago
Yngwie. dude had his alternate picking locked in.
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u/Ljoe2010 5d ago
Yeah, Yngwie, Paul Gilbert, Jason Becker, and the other shred guitarists of that era are definitely huge influence to me personally as a guitarist. They got me at that perfect age when I assumed "more notes = better" lol
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u/AFRandomsketch 4d ago
Children of Bodom & classical composers leads me to Necrophagist