Technical Death Metal

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.

Carnosus announced on Facebook that they've finished recording album #3!

Bonus: features Diaro Irvine of blackened deathcore band Plaguebringer)

Quality Italian tech death

Dissonant af

• Atræ Bilis - Aumicide (CAN-BC)
• Breath of Sindragosa - Shadowflame (USA-WY) (TDM-leaning deathcore)