Technical Death Metal

RIP Trevor Strnad, birthday would've been this past weekend

I keep getting this stuck in my head, very catchy. Please link me if you know anything similar

Overlooked this pretty hard because it came out the same day as JFAC and brutal tech doesn't grab me as much, but tbh this is really well done

Fit For An Autopsy - Black Mammoth (USA-NJ, 2017)

Only time I've had a music video elicit a reaction of "oh you're listening to That Music again- is… is that the Dakota Access Pipeline?!" Also, I keep hoping their newer material will be as good as this, but I've never caught that particular dragon

• Dååth - The Deceivers (USA-GA) (not strictly tech death, but exciting return)
• Mutagen - The New Beginning [EP] (USA-GA)
• Scolopendra - Citadel of Torment [EP] (France)
• Soulinpain - Life and Death [EP] (Chile)

Just found out this album was released in January, and it’s name-your-price on Bandcamp!

I was thinking I was I completely uncritical listener, when during this album I went "oh oops I've moved on to Archspire", then realized where I got that idea

Dream Evil - The Book of Heavy Metal (Sweden, 2004)

In 2005 or so, when media consumption was a different animal, I found that sampler CDs were a great way to explore a bunch of bands at once without committing to a whole album of each. I went to my local CD Warehouse and Cheapo and snapped up a couple generations of Identity and Metal For The Masses - most of the stuff that resonated was metalcore and death metal (Heaven Shall Burn, God Forbid, Arch Enemy, etc.), but this weird power metal meta-track also stuck in my head. Also, it turns out the music video is way better than I could have imagined.

• Antropofago - The Demiurge [EP] (France)
• Coffin Curse - The Continuous Nothing (Chile)
• Deicide - Banished By Sin (USA-FL) (not that tech, but legendary - band)
• Godeth - The Path of Destruction [EP] (UK-ENG) (groove metal, but pretty good stuff)
• Haunted by the Aborted - Whorepocalypse (AUS-WA) (core oriented, seems good for a laugh)
• Party Cannon - Injuries Are Inevitable (UK-SCO) (speaking of "good for a laugh" - slam/brutal)

EDIT TO ADD:

• Permanence - The Collapse of Singularity [EP] (Venezuela) - If this is anything like their previous EP, Creation, I am here for it.