Key facts
- Other names
- Tech-death
- Stylistic origins
- Death metal progressive metal avant-garde metal jazz fusion
- Cultural origins
- Late 1980s, United States, Canada and Europe
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Encyclopedic overview
Technical death metal (also known as tech death) is a musical subgenre of death metal with particular focus on instrumental skill and complex songwriting. Technical and progressive experimentation in death metal began in the late 1980s and early 1990s, largely driven by four bands that, according to Allmusic, are "technical death metal's Big Four" – Death, Pestilence, Atheist, and Cynic. All but Pestilence are part of the Florida death metal scene, to which Nocturnus, another influential band, also belongs.
Characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “technical death metal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.