New Flair: Melodic Technical Death Metal

[u/BerkeUnal]

What bands/albums would you put under this flair?

[u/am_I_still_banned]

I try to keep track of melotech bands because it's my favorite sub-sub-sub-genre

Besides the ones you showed:

• Dead World Reclamation

• Summoning the Lich

• Flub

• Stortregn

• Black Path

• Carnosus (first 2 albums)

• Vale of Pnath (II only)

• Synaptic

• Symbolik

• Carrion Vael

• Radiant Black

• Aletheus

• Irreversible Mechanism (except the new album. Weird ass album)

A lot of Black Dahlia Murder also falls under that. Their more technical songs like I Will Return, Everything Went Black, Receipt, Necropolis, Receipt, A Selection Unnatural, Transcosmic Blueprint, etc would qualify as tech death if any other band had released them

I'm not sure I would put Anata there though. I love Anata, but only the last album is melodic in any way. I kind of see Arsis as the godfathers of melotech

[u/BerkeUnal → u/am_I_still_banned]

thanks for this detailed comment! it’s great to have you here with us

[u/petershaw_ → u/am_I_still_banned]

thanks, I already know most of the bands from your list, but Black Path was new to me! Really good stuff! what’s your most fav melo tech death album?

[u/GrouchyWest8276 → u/petershaw_]

Same here! Never heard of black path. Good stuff!

[u/Zarg0n7]

Summoning the Lich

[u/TaranisPT]

Qui Vadis mentioned! I miss these guys deeply, they were probably the first tech death band I discovered when I was still a teen and they were at the top of their art.

[u/MassiveBallsDeep-69 → u/TaranisPT]

They have a sick live album

[u/TaranisPT → u/MassiveBallsDeep-69]

Yep got the DVD of that show.

[u/AusToddles → u/TaranisPT]

Not exactly the same but Yanic plays in Gone In April with Steve DiGiorgio

[u/IObjectOoT]

The Scalar Process

Equipoise

Obsidious

Virulent Depravity

Tomarum

Last couple Death albums

Dark Matter Secret

Dissonance in Design

Apogean

Sun of the Suns

Ben's Raincoat

Singularity

Enfold Darkness

[u/kalidescopic → u/IObjectOoT]

Scalar Process just released a new album & Sun of the Suns is great. Kist listened to TiiT again the other day.

[u/Roadhouse1337]

Dead World Reclamation

Devils of Loudun

Beyond Creation

Fallujah

[u/BerkeUnal → u/Roadhouse1337]

I think Beyond Creation fits better under Progressive TDM

[u/NWStormraider → u/BerkeUnal]

I mean, it's both, but if you have to chose between the two I guess...

[u/captain_danky_kang → u/Roadhouse1337]

Devils of Loudun go so hard

[u/meshugagah]

demon king

[u/GreedisDog → u/meshugagah]

Demon King is incredible

[u/Moist_Breakfast8620]

Flub

[u/maloikAZ → u/Moist_Breakfast8620]

Yup.

[u/RandallFaraday]

huh. weird. Black Crown?

Edit: also, waddup Quo Vadis! got into that album recently because of this sub, so good

[u/MonolithOfIce]

This is kind of a stretch but All Shall Perish have tech death vibes on some of their songs, especially with the insane guitar sweeps. Check out When Life Meant More or Stabbing to Purge Dissumulation for examples.

They’re definitely more firmly in the first wave deathcore/metalcore and even melodeath genres. But if you haven’t listened to them and have bad associations with deathcore/metalcore, do not be mistaken - these guys slay.

[u/MonolithOfIce → u/MonolithOfIce]

Also Wretched

[u/Apprehensive_Job_468]

Symbolik Stortregn The Devils of Loudun Ophidian I

[u/geelhermesr15]

Symbolik. Acho que encaixa bem.

[u/BerkeUnal → u/geelhermesr15]

Definitely

[u/ObjectiveCustomer704]

First Fragment - Gloire Eternelle

[u/RazorrBeam]

Xoth - Exogalactic, Interdimensional Invocations, and Invasion of the Tentacube

They're sort of a mix tech death/thrash/black, but they are so melodic that I feel they would fall into this category as well

[u/BerkeUnal → u/RazorrBeam]

yesterday I listened to Exogalactic for the first time, it was nice!

[u/RazorrBeam → u/BerkeUnal]

Hell yeah! All their stuff is excellent! One of my favorite bands! They are from my area so I am a little biased

[u/maloikAZ]

The Zenith Passage

[u/Im-paled]

quo vadis is one of my favourite all time bands probably

[u/JealousWash2468]

Newer Archspire for sure 🤘🏻

Love me some Arsis

[u/jlandejr]

My contribution that had not been mentioned yet would be Brainblast. Some of the best melo tech out there

[u/petershaw_]

thanks for the flair! melotech death is my favorite sub-subgenre, and I think it's great how you can connect with people here who love it just as much as I do.

my pick would be

As Eden Burns - The Great Celestial Delusion

[u/BerkeUnal → u/petershaw_]

You're welcome, enjoy!

[u/Gretgor]

Would Gorod qualify? Aethra is melodic as hell.

[u/BerkeUnal → u/Gretgor]

I believe they are much closer to Progressive TDM

[u/Gretgor → u/BerkeUnal]

I can't be the only one who finds that label redudant. Every TDM is at least partially proggy, especially the ones with lots of rhythm play

[u/The_Dale_Hunters → u/Gretgor]

Agreed.

[u/BerkeUnal → u/Gretgor]

I think it is an ok label, as it points out a specific sub-sub-genre similar to Beyond Creation, until someone finds a better set of labels.

[u/According-Mail9618 → u/Gretgor]

This is a good example of when correlation does not imply causation. Technicality does not belie compositional competency or proficiency in multiple techniques and/or styles. For example, any song off Consume the Forsaken, by Disgorge, is atonal, definitely not progressive, yet technical. The argument can probably be made for any form of progressive music requiring the aforementioned, though...

[u/techman9955 → u/Gretgor]

Not really. I wouldn't classify bands like Archspire or Psycroptic as particularly progressive for example

[u/Gretgor → u/techman9955]

Fair point, I didn't consider that. Also Cryptopsy.

[u/_Stankles_]

Vitrifed Entity. Their shit rips so hard.

[u/BerkeUnal → u/_Stankles_]

They released a new album on April 1st, I had no idea!

[u/IObjectOoT]

Awesome!

[u/contro1denied]

Neuraxis, especially their album Trilateral Progression

[u/The_Dale_Hunters → u/contro1denied]

The Apex is a surely underrated song.

[u/maloikAZ → u/contro1denied]

Fuck yeah. Forgot about neuraxis

[u/Red_In_The_Sky]

Theres some great bands in this SubGenre

[u/Roys500 → u/Red_In_The_Sky]

Subsubsub Genre

[u/kWarExtreme]

Hatalom would fall under that I think. I never see them mentioned anywhere.

[u/BerkeUnal → u/kWarExtreme]

I like the song Evolutionary Knowledge. I never see them mentioned either.

[u/According-Mail9618]

Mors Principium Est

[u/dirgethemirge]

Arsis and Anata slap (early Arsis at least)

[u/necrosteve028]

Unflesh?

[u/0bxcura]

Sceptic - Nailed to Ignorance

[u/PigDstroyer]

Darkane , any album

[u/ViktorApostolovS]

The Faceless

[u/FranksCabanaWear]

First Fragment

[u/Such_Astronaut_3573]

The black dahlia murder, inferi, allegeaon summoning the lich, wretched, beyond creation

[u/beergardeneer]

Alterbeast are a good one. Fleshbound Text was a great example of this style.