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This is a list of technical death metal bands. Technical death metal (sometimes called tech-death) is a musical subgenre of death metal music that focuses on complex rhythms, riffs and song structures.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
Band Country Formed Notes
7 Horns 7 Eyes USA 2006 [1]
Abnormality USA 2005 [2]
Aborted Belgium 1995 [3]
Abysmal Dawn USA 2003
Abysmal Torment Malta 2000
Aeon Sweden 1999 [4]
Anata Sweden 1993 [5]
Archspire Canada 2009 [6]
Arsis USA 2000 [7]
As They Sleep USA 2003 [8]
Atheist USA 1984–1992, 1993–1994, 2006–present
Augury Canada 2001 [9]
Becoming the Archetype USA 1999 [10]
Beneath the Massacre Canada 2004 [11][12]
Between the Buried and Me USA 2000–present [13][14][15][16]
Beyond Creation Canada 2005–present
The Black Dahlia Murder USA 2001-present
Blood Incantation USA 2011–present
Blotted Science USA 2005–present [17]
Born of Osiris USA 2003 [18]
Brain Drill USA 2005 [9][19][20][21]
Cannibal Corpse USA 1988 [22][23]
Capharnaum USA 1993–1999, 2003–2009 [24]
Carcass UK 1985–1996, 2007–present
Cephalic Carnage USA 1992 [25]
Circle of Contempt Finland 2006–present
The Contortionist USA 2007 [26]
Contrarian USA 2012–present
Coprofago Chile 1993 [27]
Cryptic Shift UK 2013 [28]
Cryptopsy Canada 1992 [29][30][31]
Cynic USA 1987–1994, 2006–present
Deadsquad Indonesia 2006 [32]
Death USA 1984–1996, 1998–2001 [33]
Decapitated Poland 1996 [34]
Decrepit Birth USA 2001 [35]
Deeds of Flesh USA 1993
Defeated Sanity Germany 1994
Demilich Finland 1990–1993, 2006, 2010, 2015–present
Desecravity Japan 2007-present
Divine Heresy USA 2006
Dying Fetus USA 1991 [36]
Entheos USA 2015 [37]
Extol Norway 1994 [38]
Fallujah USA 2007 [39]
The Faceless USA 2004 [40]
Fleshgod Apocalypse Italy 2007
Gojira France 1996 [41]
Gorod France 1997
Gorguts Canada 1989 [42]
Grimaze Bulgaria 2013 [43]
In Battle Sweden 1996 [44]
Into the Moat USA 2001 [45]
Knights of the Abyss USA 2005 [46]
Lost Soul Poland 1990–1995, 1997–present
Malignancy USA 1992
Man Must Die UK 2002
Meshuggah Sweden 1987 [47][1]
Monstrosity USA 1990 [42]
Necrophagist Germany 1992 [48]
Neuraxis Canada 1994 [49]
Ne Obliviscaris Australia 2003 [50]
Nile USA 1993 [51]
Nocturnus USA 1988 [52]
Obscura Germany 2002 [9]
Oppressor USA 1991
Origin USA 1990 [53]
Persefone Andorra 2001 [54]
Pestilence Netherlands 1986 [55]
Psycroptic Australia 1999 [56][57][58]
Pyrrhon USA 2008
Quo Vadis Canada 1992
The Red Chord USA 1999 [59]
Revocation USA 2006 [60]
Rings of Saturn USA 2009 [61]
Rivers of Nihil USA 2009 [62]
Sadist Italy 1991
Soreption Sweden 2005
Spawn of Possession Sweden 1997
Suffocation USA 1989 [63]
Sylosis UK 2000
Through the Eyes of the Dead USA 2003
Trigger the Bloodshed UK 2006 [64]
Ulcerate New Zealand 2000
Visceral Bleeding Sweden 1999
Wormed Spain 1998 [65]
The Zenith Passage USA 2012

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