Technical Death Metal

Not much proper tech this week (aside from Gigan, and even that is waaay on the progressive side), but this is what caught my ear:

• Avtotheism - Reflections of Execrable Stillness (Italy)
• Dimethyl Mercery - Vortex to the Arc [EP] (Indonesia)
• The Fall of Creation - Enlightenment (Russia)
• Gigan - Anomalous Abstractigate Infinitessimus (USA-IL)
• Iotunn - Kinship (Denmark)
• Just Buried - Necro-Macro (Russia)
• Maledicted - Dreams from Irkalla [EP] (Russia)
• Psycrotted - Creations of Insanity (Germany)

• Amputate - Abysmal Ascent (Portugal)
• Anhedonic - Emissary [EP] (USA-OR) (instrumental)
• Carnosus - Wormtales (Sweden) (obviously I have an enormous hard-on for this band, and the new one didn't disappoint)
• Deivos - Apophenia (Poland)
• Infant Annihilator - Mister Sister Fister: Re-Conception [EP] (US-FL/UK-ENG) (tech deathcore, definitely not tech death, but likely relevant to our interests here)

Oops, a few days late, but it was a pretty light week anyway

• Tribunal of Carnage - Kerajaan Bulan (Malaysia) (instrumental tech melodic death)
• Unleash Carnage - A Plague Tale (CAN-QC) (death metal/deathcore)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/30613646

Bandcamp for the album, Metallum for the band I'm not usually the biggest modern tech death person, but there was just something about this album that did it for me. Entire album is just under 28 minutes, definitely recommend a listen.

Not really tech death, but close enough that I thought it'd be good to cross-post.

Guide to the song from the youtube comments:

0:00 the random intro

1:32 earrape

1:54 I THIS FRACTAL ILLUSION

2:54 lead over catchy riff

3:33 the not so catchy but more meshuggah riff

4:31 THIS IS AN ANOMALY

4:56 "Tight as frog butthole" (c) Ben Eller

5:39 Chaos cranked up to 11

6:18 RE-DESINTEGRATION

7:07 string skipping... kind of

7:46 unsettling clean theme 1

8:39 brr da brr da da brr da brr da da

10:15 from chaos to chaos to chaos

10:32 brainmelting 4/4 riff

11:31 waaa weee wooo trem lead

12:00 I - THE NIHILIST

12:39 contacting aliens like Fredrik

13:31 MIRACLES INVERTED

14:06 0s longer than grindcore songs

14:42 unsettling clean theme 2

15:59 winding up the djenerator

16:51 djenerator at full power

17:45 CONCEPTION DERIVED FROM MISCONCEPTIONS

18:20 EMERGENCE OF DOOM COMPLETE

18:35 IIIIIIII

20:19 eternal 0

Also a good interview where they talk about the track:

Did you guys ever do I live?

No, no. That whole track was written and recorded just on random. Me and Fredrik would just jam on something, and when we found something that was kind of cool, he would walk into the control room. I would just record drums and it wasn’t a set pattern, I would just kind of stray away from the pattern, but just keep going in that vibe. Then we had to chart everything and go bar by bar to record the guitars afterwards, because it’s all just random.

In doing it that way it’s also really, really hard to learn it. Even for us. I know parts of it, just because I’ve listened to it a lot, but it would be an awesome challenge to try to pull that off live, and it would take a shitload of rehearsing to get it down.

They're type of band that this could be a prank, but it seems legit. Going to be hard to replace him

Whoa just discovered this by accident, super sick. Looks like it's part of an EP coming out on October 18, when I'll be distracted by new Carnosus

• Asylum Purgatory - Rise of the Dread King (CAN-QC)
• Carnosus - Yearnings of a Rotten Spine (Single) (Sweden)
• Livløs - The Crescent King (Denmark)
• Maul - In the Jaws of Bereavement (USA-ND)
• Swarm Effect - Cotard's Syndrome (Ukraine)
• Wind Rose - Trollslayer (Italy) (lol)

Per Carnosus’s Facebook page, Toilet ov Hell is doing an early debut of tomorrow’s new single, Yearnings of a Rotten Spine!

These guys' latest album really took me by surprise, so I went through their discography, and it's a fun trip

• A Thousand Wounds - S/T (USA-FL) (arguably technical deathcore)
• The Black Dahlia Murder - Servitude (USA-MI) (melodeath)
• Blighted Eye - Agony's Bespoke (USA-WA) (missed this one last -week)
• Buicide - Aftermath Existence (Russia)
• Obsidian Mantra - As We All Will (Poland)
• Ophidian Memory - Carrion Lord (USA-IA)
• Pesterous Mind - Endcide (Germany)
• Radiant Black - Rituals of Anarchy (Israel)

• Aro Ora - The Twelfth Hour (France)
• Vitur - Transcending the Self (Poland)

• Brinicle - Perceptions of Reality (Colombia)
• Crypt Crawler - The Immortal Realm (AUS-WA)
• Insurrection - Obsolescence (CAN-QC)
• Soulmass - Promise [EP] (USA-FL)

ffo Griefgod, so I guess melodic tech? idk I'm not great with labels, but don't sleep on this

Even more!

From their Facebook page:

“New single premieres early this Wednesday, Sept 11 over at Heavy Blog is Heavy! Available on all streaming platforms Friday, Sept 13.”

More "title track on S/T"

Another, another!

Light on certified tech this week, but some good ones

• Corpse Worship - Cemetery Anthems (Russia) (not really tech, but pretty cool)
• Grimaze - The Heart of a Collapsing Star (Bulgaria)

Another "title track from eponymous release" example!