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Technical thrash metal pushes the genre's aggression to new heights through complex song structures, intricate time signatures, and virtuosic musicianship that demands exceptional skill. It emerged in the late 1980s as thrash musicians sought to challenge themselves beyond standard verse-chorus formats, incorporating progressive and jazz fusion elements. The result is a cerebral yet intense sound where lightning-fast riffs, unconventional rhythms, and ambitious compositions create a mathematically precise form of controlled chaos.
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1985 | Watchtower | Energetic Disassembly |
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1986-10 | Toxik | Wasteland |
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| 36 | 1987 | Artillery | Terror Squad |
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| 71 | 1987 | Toxik | World Circus |
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| 80 | 1987-06-01 | Coroner | R.I.P. |
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1988 | Voivod | Dimension Hatröss |
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| 57 | 1988 | Despair | History Of Hate |
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| 58 |
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1988 | Blind Illusion | The Sane Asylum | ||
| 45 |
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1988 | Airdash | Thank God It's Monday |
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| 51 | 1988 | Deathrow | Deception Ignored |
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| 34 | 1988-04-10 | Atheist | Beyond |
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| 78 |
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1988-08-01 | Coroner | Punishment for Decadence |
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1988-10-24 | Target | Master Project Genesis |
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| 52 |
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1988-11-08 | Realm | Endless War |
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| 77 |
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1989 | Watchtower | Control And Resistance |
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| 2 | 1989 | Accu§er | Who Dominates Who? |
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1989 | Deathrow | Deception Ignored (2018 Remaster) |
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| 24 |
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1989 | Toxik | Think This |
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| 30 |
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1989 | Destruction | Live Without Sense |
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| 49 |
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1989 | Turbo | Epidemic |
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| 31 |
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1989-05 | Destruction | Live - Without Sense |
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| 12 |
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1989-07-05 | Annihilator | Alice in Hell |
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| 93 |
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1989-09-18 | Coroner | No More Color | ||
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1990 | Arcane | Destination Unknown |
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| 55 |
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1990 | Wolf Spider | Kingdom of paranoia |
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| 82 | 1990 | Obliveon | From This Day Forward |
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| 83 |
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1990 | Hellwitch | Syzygial Miscreancy |
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| 62 |
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1990-03-30 | Forbidden | Twisted Into Form |
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| 22 |
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1990-04-05 | Atrophy | Violent By Nature |
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| 86 | 1990-06-18 | Artillery | By Inheritance |
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| 29 |
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1990-09-21 | Megadeth | Rust In Peace |
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| 33 |
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1991 | Wolf Spider | Drifting In The Sullen Sea | ||
| 6 | 1991 | Ravenous | Book of Covetous Souls |
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| 40 |
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1991 | Airdash | Both Ends Of The Path |
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| 66 |
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1991 | Invocator | Excursion Demise |
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| 97 | 1991-08-13 | Coroner | Mental Vortex | |||
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1992 | Mekong Delta | Kaleidoscope | ||
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1992 | Sacrament | Haunts of Violence |
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| 65 | 1992-05-05 | Sadus | A Vision of Misery |
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1993 | Obliveon | Nemesis |
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| 63 | 1993-05 | Аспид | Кровоизлияние |
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| 91 | 1995-03-21 | Coroner | Coroner | |||
| 37 |
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1997-05 | Hexenhaus | Dejavoodoo | ||
| 67 | 1998-01-26 | Meshuggah | Contradictions Collapse |
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| 50 | 2000 | Acid Death | Random's Manifest | |||
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2001-01-22 | Carnal Forge | Please... Die! |
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2004 | Vektor | Nucleus (2002 Remastered Demo) | ||
| 81 |
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2005 | Coroner | R.I.P |
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| 28 | 2005-09-01 | Assacre | Fantastic Illusions Worth Dying For |
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| 74 |
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2006-05-10 | Stam1na | Uudet kymmenen käskyä |
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| 15 |
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2007-06-11 | Negligence | Options Of A Trapped Mind |
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| 94 | 2008-02-12 | Revocation | Empire Of The Obscene |
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| 84 | 2008-07-29 | Exmortus | In Hatred's Flame |
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| 68 |
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2009-06-05 | Cautiva | Human |
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| 39 | 2009-09-29 | Revocation | Existence Is Futile |
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| 98 | 2009-11-17 | Vektor | Black Future | |||
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2011 | Meshuggah | Contradictions Collapse & None | ||
| 42 | 2011-08-16 | Revocation | Chaos of Forms |
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| 100 |
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2011-11-22 | Vektor | Outer Isolation | ||
| 89 |
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2012 | Meshuggah | Psykisk Testbild |
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| 96 |
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2012-09-25 | Revocation | Scion Av Presents: Revocation "Teratogensis" |
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| 19 |
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2013-01-18 | Voivod | Target Earth |
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| 38 |
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2013-05-25 | Distillator | Split 2018 | ||
| 35 | 2013-08-06 | Revocation | Revocation |
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| 75 | 2013-08-16 | Black Fast | Starving Out The Light |
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2014-02-11 | Paranorm | The Edge of Existence | ||
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2014-03-22 | Expain | Just The Tip | ||
| 20 |
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2014-08-28 | Alitor | Eternal Depression | ||
| 60 | 2014-10-13 | Revocation | Deathless |
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2016 | Revocation | Great Is Our Sin |
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| 70 |
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2016-02 | Ripper | Experiment Of Existence | ||
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2016-04-15 | Hemotoxin | Biological Enslavement |
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| 95 |
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2016-05 | Vektor | Transmissions of Chaos | ||
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2016-05 | Vektor | Terminal Redux |
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| 47 |
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2016-08-08 | Cryptic Shift | Beyond The Celestial Realms |
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| 79 |
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2016-10-07 | Watchtower | Concepts Of Math: Book One | ||
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2016-11-10 | Xoth | Invasion of the Tentacube |
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| 41 |
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2017-04-27 | Droid | Terrestrial Mutations | ||
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2017-04-28 | Cryptic Shift | Cosmic Dreams |
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2017-06-27 | Madrost | The Essence of Time Matches No Flesh |
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| 43 |
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2017-10-12 | Expander | Endless Computer |
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| 61 |
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2017-12-11 | Vexovoid | Call Of The Starforger | ||
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2018 | Sacral Rage | Beyond Celestial Echoes |
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| 48 |
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2018-04-13 | Vorbid | Mind | ||
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2018-09-15 | Teleport | The Expansion |
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2019-02-19 | Blind Illusion | 2018 |
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| 76 |
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2020-05-05 | Cryptic Shift | Visitations From Enceladus | ||
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2021-02-25 | Cryptosis | Transmissions of Chaos | ||
| 90 |
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2021-03-26 | Cryptosis | Bionic Swarm |
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| 26 |
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2021-04-19 | Obsolete | Animate//Isolate |
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| 46 |
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2021-05-07 | terminalist | The Great Acceleration |
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| 27 |
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2021-12-07 | Ὁπλίτης | Τρωθησομένη |
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| 69 | 2022-08-05 | Toxik | Dis Morta | |||
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2022-11-18 | Autonoesis | Moon of Foul Magics |
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| 72 |
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2023-08-25 | Exmortus | Necrophony |
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2023-11-03 | Hellix | Montage |
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| 56 |
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2024-01-12 | Ὁπλίτης | Παραμαινομένη |
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| 87 | 2024-01-26 | dissimulator | Lower Form Resistance |
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| 59 |
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2024-05-17 | Hemotoxin | When Time Becomes Loss |
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| 44 |
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2024-05-31 | Witherfall | Sounds of the Forgotten |
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