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Points: 5111 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 30 2014 at 11:10
Not everybody's cup of tea, but I like Spiral Architect:
 
 
Shame they only cut one album. I could have listened to more.
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Meshuggah - Catch-33 from 2005

Listen to the first 2:30 minutes:



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Hi! New here,

IMO technical metal is about technique, obviously, so some bands wouldn't fit here, like doom or goth bands.

Spastic Ink - "Ink Complete" and "Ink compatible": this is the Jarzombek's brothers band, very underrated in my opinion and, in most cases, the best recording of both brothers.

You can see Ron Jarzombek playing guitar at: Blotted Science, Watchtower, himself.
Bobby Jarzombek: Halford, Demons&Wizards, Fates Warning, Arch/Matheos (very good record, from former Fates Warning members), Painmuseum...

Frederiks Thordendal Special Defectes - Sol Niger Within: Meshuggah's leader first solo record, kinda Meshuggah :o

Necrophagist - Epitah: or how to sound rough and technical at the same time, awesome record.

The Faceless - Planetary Duality: mothern tech death metal, good record btw.

Lots of bands more like Revocation, Continuo Renacer (spanish instrumental Canvas Solaris like), Atheist, Dying Fetus, Psycotropic, Pestilence - worth listen - or Gorod.
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Points: 16449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 07 2015 at 08:20
Ephel Duath's The Painters Pallette is another cool album to try as well.
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I've been getting my  Death/Thrash freak on lately with L'Enfant Sauvage from Gojira.
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Here's some very trippy Gorguts/Voivod-inspired death metal... miraculously enough they're from San Francisco rather than Québec.



Even the cover art looks a bit Voivodesque.
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Heard the samples here of a band called Behold The Arctopus - - they sound AMAZING...... Just what I want out of tech-metal......I'm hoping Mastodon are up there too.
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Originally posted by Tom Ozric Tom Ozric wrote:

Heard the samples here of a band called Behold The Arctopus - - they sound AMAZING...... Just what I want out of tech-metal......I'm hoping Mastodon are up there too.
 
If you dig the Arctopus you may get something out of Electro Quarterstaff as well:
 
 
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^That is going to require further investigation. Fun stuff

I think of the word "extreme" in the genre and I think of the most volume pegged/distorted bands. There are many in the confines of the genre that use their technicality to create elegant and dynamic pieces. And still others that I believe are not metal at all. That said, here are my favorites within the PA list.

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Martyr - Feeding the Access
Watchtower - Control and Resistance
Unexpect - In a Flesh Aquarium
Coprofago - Unorthodox Creative Criteria
Canvas Solaris - et al
Spastic Ink - Ink compatible
Opeth - Watershed
Meshuggah - Destroy Erase Improve, None
1980
Voivod - Dimension Hätross, Nothingface
Spiral Architect - A Skeptics Universe
Frederik Thordendahl s Special Defects. 
Chimp Spanner
Dysrhythmia -Pretest
Animals as Leaders
Theory in Practice - The Armageddon Theories,  Colonizing the Sun

And this is my favorite technical metal outside of PA



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Opeth - Still Life / Blackwater Park / Morningrise (although that one's not so technical)
Edge of Sanity - Crimson
Death - Symbolic
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I've been hooked on Torrential Downpour's latest album Truth Knowledge Vision recently. I find it is truly a masterpiece of prog metal meets math metal with occasional ambient moments reminiscent of 70s prog but in a modern extreme metal context. It's beautiful! <3

http://torrentialdownpour.bandcamp.com/

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Off the top of my head....

Dillinger Escape Plan - One of Us Is The killer
Opeth  - Watershed
Gorguts - Coloured Sands
Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest
Symphony X - Paradise Lost
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Points: 1534 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 01 2015 at 13:24
^Watershed is quite far from the tech side of extreme metal.
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