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Technical metal emphasizes virtuosic musicianship, complex song structures, and demanding instrumental passages that showcase exceptional skill. The style features intricate time signatures, polyrhythmic patterns, and challenging riffs that push the boundaries of what's physically possible on instruments. While rooted in progressive and extreme metal traditions, it prioritizes technical prowess and compositional sophistication over conventional song structures.
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1986-10 | Toxik | Wasteland | ||
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1988 | Sieges Even | Lifecycle | ||
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1989 | Watchtower | Control And Resistance | ||
| 77 | 1995-05-05 | Meshuggah | Destroy Erase Improve |
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1997-01-01 | Fredrik Thordendal's Special Defects | Sol Niger Within |
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| 20 |
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1998-06-17 | Iced Earth | Something Wicked This Way Comes |
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| 79 |
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1998-11-09 | Meshuggah | Chaosphere |
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| 71 | 1998-12-22 | Extol | Burial |
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| 24 |
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1999 | Creation Is Crucifixion | In_silico |
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| 33 |
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1999 | Creation Is Crucifixion | In Silico |
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| 44 | 1999 | Creation Is Crucifixion | Automata |
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| 56 |
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1999 | Hybrid | Angst |
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| 91 |
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1999-12-19 | Spiral Architect | A Sceptic's Universe |
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| 22 |
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2000-04-10 | The Berzerker | The Berzerker |
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| 14 |
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2000-06-20 | Extol | Undeceived |
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| 6 | 2001-02 | Andromeda | Extension Of The Wish |
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| 88 |
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2001-03-08 | Undying | This Day All Gods Die |
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| 92 |
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2002 | Meshuggah | Catch 33 |
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| 70 | 2002 | Sikth | Let The Transmitting Begin... |
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| 95 |
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2002-08-06 | Meshuggah | Nothing |
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| 35 | 2003-09-02 | Ion Dissonance | Breathing Is Irrelevant |
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2004 | Andromeda | Extension Of The Wish - Final Extension |
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| 86 | 2004-04-21 | Spastic Ink | Ink Compatible |
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| 97 | 2004-07-13 | Meshuggah | I |
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| 15 | 2005 | Fragments of Sentience | Hiatus |
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| 28 |
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2005-09-20 | Ion Dissonance | Solace |
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| 100 |
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2006 | Architects | Royal Beggars |
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| 4 |
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2006 | Architects | Heartburn - Single |
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| 55 | 2006-01-01 | Architects | Nightmares |
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| 68 | 2006-01-11 | Mastodon | Call of the Mastodon |
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| 66 |
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2006-02-07 | Mastodon | Call of Mastodon |
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| 36 |
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2006-09 | Twisted Into Form | Then Comes Affliction to Awaken the Dreamer |
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| 21 |
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2006-12-21 | Aghora | Formless |
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| 69 | 2007-01-06 | Car Bomb | Centralia |
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| 58 |
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2007-02-15 | Egoist | Dead Egg |
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| 17 | 2007-05-09 | Inghean Bhuidhe | Demo 2007 |
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| 39 | 2007-06-05 | Ion Dissonance | Minus The Herd |
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| 30 |
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2007-08-27 | Divine Heresy | Bleed The Fifth |
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| 25 |
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2007-08-28 | Divine Heresy | Bleed The Fifth! |
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| 98 | 2007-10-16 | Behold... the Arctopus | Skullgrid |
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| 99 |
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2008 | Lamb of God | Walk With Me In Hell |
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| 85 |
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2008-02-11 | Biomechanical | Cannibalised |
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| 60 |
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2008-02-27 | Meshuggah | ObZen |
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| 61 |
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2008-10-13 | Tangaroa | One Hand For The Knife, One Hand for the throat |
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| 87 |
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2009 | Into The Moat | The Campaign |
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| 37 |
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2009-02-17 | PsyOpus | Odd Senses |
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| 48 | 2009-04-28 | Animals as Leaders | Animals As Leaders |
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| 26 |
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2009-05-11 | Exivious | Exivious |
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| 72 |
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2009-06-05 | Cautiva | Human |
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| 65 |
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2009-09-09 | Om Mani | Apology |
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| 41 |
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2009-09-15 | Ron Jarzombek | Phhhp! Plus |
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| 45 | 2009-12-05 | Refawn | Lemur of the Nine |
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2010 | Torture of Hypocrisy | Random Perspectives of Reality (FULL LENGTH) |
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| 13 |
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2010-04-16 | Periphery | Periphery |
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| 27 |
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2010-06-01 | Orthrelm | Orthrelm |
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| 42 |
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2010-08-23 | Ion Dissonance | Cursed |
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| 57 | 2010-10-04 | Returning We Hear the Larks | Alpha: The Ypres Months |
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| 81 |
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2010-10-29 | War from a Harlots Mouth | MMX |
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| 38 |
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2010-11-01 | Katatura | In two minds | ||
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2011 | Between the Buried and Me | The Parallax I: Hypersleep Dialogues |
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| 93 | 2011-02-05 | The Interbeing | Edge of the Obscure |
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2011-03-21 | TesseracT | One |
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| 73 | 2011-09-26 | All Tomorrows | Opilion |
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| 34 | 2011-10-21 | Red Horizons | Angelic |
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| 75 |
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2012 | Materia | Case of Noise |
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| 94 | 2012-02-09 | Meshuggah | Koloss |
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| 63 | 2012-03-19 | V3ctors | V3ctors |
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2012-04-09 | Returning We Hear the Larks | Line-Trap [Single] |
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| 89 |
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2012-04-23 | 7 Horns 7 Eyes | Throes of Absolution |
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| 19 |
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2012-05-19 | This Broken Machine | The Inhuman Use of Human Beings |
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| 53 | 2012-08-27 | Monuments | Gnosis |
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| 82 |
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2012-08-27 | Stealing Axion | Moments |
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2012-11-01 | RXYZYXR | LMNTS |
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| 10 | 2012-11-19 | Red Horizons | Broken Beyond Repair |
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| 62 | 2013-02-04 | Meshuggah | Pitch Black |
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| 76 | 2013-05-15 | Red Seas Fire | Exposition |
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| 80 | 2013-06-11 | Scale the Summit | The Migration |
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| 74 | 2013-06-25 | Returning We Hear the Larks | Far-Stepper/Of Wide Sea |
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2013-07-24 | Oceanborn | Hidden from the World |
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2013-08-20 | Monsterworks | Earth |
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| 51 |
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2014-02-01 | Methiums | Methiums |
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| 64 | 2014-03-24 | Animals as Leaders | The Joy Of Motion |
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| 78 | 2014-06-20 | Monuments | The Amanuensis |
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2014-11-11 | Stealing Axion | Aeons |
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| 59 |
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2015 | All Tomorrows | Sol Agnates |
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| 23 |
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2015-04-20 | Abandoned Elysium | Unmasked |
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| 50 |
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2016 | Paul Wardingham | Spiritual Machines |
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| 54 |
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2017 | A Total Wall | True Fear |
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| 11 |
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2017-03-17 | Roast Dog | Random Rants of Repressed Relevance |
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2018-09-28 | Demilich | Em9t2ness of van2s1ing / V34ish6ng 0f emptiness |
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| 96 |
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2018-10-29 | Architects | Modern Misery | ||
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2018-11-09 | Architects | Holy Hell |
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| 90 |
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2019-06-21 | Rabea Massaad | Grinding Gears, Vol. 2 |
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2020-06-19 | Alarum | Circle's End |
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2023-06-02 | AEffect | Theory Of Mind |
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| 40 | 2024-12-13 | Misanthropy | The Ever​-​Crushing Weight of Stagnance |
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Born of Osiris | Through Shadows | |||
| 9 | Eaquity | Periodical Safe Grounds |
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| 12 | Tamriel | Blood and Ebony EP |
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| 49 | Simulation Defect | Colonize Mars |
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| Rabea Massaad | Grinding Gears |
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