Technical Death Metal

From the band via Facebook:

Whispered among worms were the rumors of a new album by death metal outfit Carnosus. Heavier and darker, slithering its way from Örebro, Sweden, comes Wormtales, a prequel to the critically acclaimed 2023 album, Visions of Infinihility. Wormtales contains some of the band's most impressive riffs thus far and once again lures the listener into the realm of infinihility.

Release date: October 18 on Willowtip Records

Track Listing:

1. Birthless
2. Within Throat, Within Heart
3. Neglectikon
4. Yearnings of A Rotten Spine
5. Worm Charmer
6. Harbinger of Woundism
7. Paradoxical Impulse
8. Wound of Wisdom
9. Cosmoclaustrum
10. Solace In Soil

Credits: Recorded and produced by Carnosus (except drums; recorded and produced by Robert Kukla & Dennis Rosic). Re-amped, mixed and mastered by Robert Kukla at Obsidian Recording Studios. Cover artwork by Timon Kokott.

Let myself get pretty behind, here are the releases that jumped out last week, not all particularly tech.

• Anoxide - Morals & Dogma (UK-ENG)
• Becoming the Entity - Chronicles of the Trephine [...] [EP] (Mexico)
• Commorion - Purga Infernal [EP] (Colombia)
• Diamortal - Proceeding Inhumanity (Germany)
• Scopus Magnus - Magnum Scopus [EP] (Finland)
• Siphoned Life - Plagueland (USA-TX)

Full album is coming out Aug. 23rd

• Carnophage - Matter of a Darker Nature (Turkey) (brutal tech)
• Parasitic Entity - Artificial Hell Construct [EP] (UK-ENG)

"Unquestionable Presence" is the second album by the death metal band Atheist. It was released in August 30, 1991 through Death Records (division of Metal Blade Records).

Tracklist:

1.Mother Man 0:00 2.Unquestionable Presence 4:34 3.Your Life's Retribution 8:40 4.Enthralled In Essence 11:57 5.An Incarnation's Dream 15:35 6.The Formative Years 20:27 7.Brains 23:58 8.And the Psychic Saw 27:39

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/15522858

Technical Death Metal is one of metal's most beloved and popular genres. But where exactly did it start from? Today, in this Metal Documentary series we analyze the history of bands like Cynic, Atheist, Death, and Pestilence to determine the true origins of one of metal's most famous and well-known genres.

Technical death metal (also referred to as tech-death) is a musical subgenre of death metal that began and developed in the early- to mid-1990s, with a particular focus on challenging, demanding instrumental skill and complex songwriting.

Technical experimentation in death metal began in the late 1980s and early 1990s by four bands that are often grouped together as "technical death metal's Big Four" – Death, Pestilence, Atheist, and Cynic – as well as Nocturnus; all but Pestilence being part of the Florida death metal scene.

Some of the distinct features of this genre include dynamic song structures, complex and atypical rhythmic structures, abundant use of diminished chords and arpeggios, frequent employment of odd-time chord progressions, and constant use of string skipping on the guitars. Basslines are usually complex, and the drums are extremely fast-paced with abundant use of blast beats and other extreme drumming techniques. The technical death metal genre has also been influenced by mostly jazz fusion, as well as thrash metal and progressive/technical-inspired heavy metal bands like Death, Megadeth, Slayer, Voivod, Kreator, Dark Angel, Coroner, Sadus, and Watchtower, the latter of whose second album Control and Resistance (1989) is often considered to be one of the sources of inspiration for the genre.

• Space Corpse (or Spacecorpse?) - Shapeshifter [EP] (USA-CO)
• Valsa Pintura - Plénitude [EP] (France) (instrumental tech)

Also, don't forget to catch Gojira playing the Olympic opening ceremony in a couple hours!

Bonus - misc eye-catching new releases since I last posted, listed loosely in reverse order of release:

• Abiosis - Hollowing the Mortal Form
• Serpentslain - Cognitive Dissonance [EP]
• August Mayhem - Incredulity (arguably deathcore)
• Commander - Angstridden (very groovy, ffo Griefgod, Eye of Horus)
• Lynchpin - ...This Mortal Coil [EP]
• Fallujah - The Flesh Prevails 10 year anniversary remix/remaster (I haven't done a close enough A:B listen to understand the difference, but damn is TFP a great album)
• Helvetskval - Hjarnspoken
• Abandon Agony - Dark Matter [EP]
• Replacire - The Center That Cannot Hold
• Severe Torture - Torn from the Jaws of Death (not tech, but gotta love these DM kings)
• The Fallen - S/T (arguably *core)
• Ulcerate - Cutting the Throat of God

I promise I’m not dead, just very busy with both work stuff and life stuff. Thanks to other posters for contributing content to the community! I definitely don’t intend to be the primary poster long-term lol

Pretty hyped for their show

Light on proper tech this week, here's a mix of tangentially related stuff that might be worthwhile

• Diminish the Gods - Exopaedian (AUS-NSW) (I've been waiting for this for over a year, haven't listened yet but should be good for tech/core enthusiasts)
• A Karmic Gray - Ghosts of Times Obscure (USA-OH)
• Shitkluster - Shitocracy (USA-KY)
• Xenocide - S/T [EP] (USA-IL)

Weird prog-death goodness out soon

Whitechapel - The Saw Is the Law (USA-TN, 2014)

Obviously, any metal with "death" in the genre name never ends up literally on the radio. But some singles are catchy in a way that feels like a radio jam. This is one of my best examples of that, alongside Aversions Crown - Hollow Earth and Carnifex - Pray For Peace

Oops late one this week

• Blasteroid - Crypts of Mind (Greece) (ffo Mastodon, but deathier than that)
• Cutterred Flesh - Love at First Bite (Czechia) (again, NYP right now)
• Esodic - De Facto De Jure [EP] (Jordan) (death/thrash, and the first Jordanian band that's come to my attention)
• Vale of Pnath - Between the Worlds of Life and Death (USA-CO)

Who's stoked for more Vale? I see what people are saying about the stylistic shift, but this is still sick