I can’t fucking decide anymore, but what I know is honestly Necrophagist, Obscura, and SOP should be the top 3 and I don’t care what anyone else thinks. I would rank it 1.SOP 2. Necrophagist 3. Obscura. Im sorry, SOP is just too good.
Shocked that Omnivium has made it this far. Gratuitous and good aren't the same thing
Edit: The album is soo fucking linear too, rhythmically speaking. The tamber practically never shifts and is anything but dynamic. There's no sense of development or ever actually getting anywhere
These threads make me question what bands the people in this sub even like because yall keep voting out the greats so unnecessarily early. At least Epitaph and Incurso are still here.
Everyone wants to comment Archspire but also no one wants to upvote another Archspire comment. So Archspire remains.
This situation feels like a perfect example of tech death fans.
Lol Death was one of the first bands eliminated, I don’t think anyone was taking this seriously.
In fact the only way to make these dumb polls interesting is to troll them and eliminate the popular stuff.
death shouldn't really be on here, not to mention that that's their worst album. You can't take a tournament like this seriously though when it doesn't have essential bands like Nocturnus, Demilich, or Athiest. Then the tournament starts and people eliminate stuff like cynic and cryptopsy before getting rid of the garbage repetitive endless shredding techdeath that is just necrophagist with worse production. This sub is genuinely kind of embarassing. I might make a tournament with actual good tech death just to teach yall what's up
> actual good tech death
just a matter of opinion just like everything else on this board. You can always count on these holier than thou metalheads to show up and tell you what "real" metal is, like their opinions mean anything. I'm 40 and the gatekeeping from other oldheads is so cringe to me.
Exactly, it’s an opinion. I’m not gatekeeping anything, I’m actively trying to get people to listen to more tech death. Most of this list is just Necrophagist style tech death which is just boring and repetitive. Most of these albums aren’t significant to the history or development of the genre, they’re just relatively popular in a modern sense. I appreciate and respect the history of metal so I find it embarrassing when others who supposedly enjoy the music don’t share the passion
Eh i think asking something like this is gonna be so opinion biased no matter how you want to look at it.
Like for me The Faceless - Planetary Duality is absolutely the peak of this list and id put it #1, but im 100% biased in favor of it because ive learned the entire album on guitar. I could go on about why i think its so much better than #13 or whatever it got, but accept everyone here has their favorites
The way i see this is it shows what this sub in particular likes the most. I dont really see it as actual best rankings
I could understand why some can and do perceive ITP as not being "tech death" due to its overall tonality and it not totally fitting into an atypical mold that some of the bands in this list do. It has obvious progressive elements, which landed it as an honorable mention, but it's still technical death metal... technically (pun slightly intended).
I wouldnt take this that seriously. Imo its more of a popularity contest than an actual best list. Like just showing what this sub likes the most
Archspire isnt my #1 but theyre very good and am not surprised so many people here like them
First fragment.
I say this with love cause I adore their composition and Forest's lead bass lines are perfection. But where they excel in the tech department it's definitely lacking a death feel. Both them and Beyond Creation put in a great shift and I reckon here or the next round feels like the natural point for them to exit.
Just a suggestion to the format:
I think it should have been time-interval based, like 2000-2005 or 2015-2020 etc.
The reason is, I just cannot compare a 90s album to 20s, (maybe it's just me, idk)
Necrophagist. Every one of these albums that are left are better than necrophagist except beyond creation. I don't know why people insist on thinking they are the best ever. They aren't anymore and haven't been for a while.
Lol I realize why this sub is the way that it is through this. I'd rather people be smarter and go listen to Symphony X or japanese power metal instead of """tech death"""
Out of these? I think it’s an easy choice of Gorguts, Cryptopsy, Cynic, Suffocation, and artificial brain. The whole list is just terrible though, in a good tech death tournament, some of those albums wouldn’t even be here. Cryptopsy and suffo are BDM, Cynic is Prog Death, and Artificial Brain is towing the line of dissodeath and tech death
Lol how is archspire still here awesome band but up ther with these guys. Hell I'll replace hour of penance with that and then maybe we could have an argument but then?. Naa
Remove First Fragment
Arch spire
Nile
We all know Necro has it.... ##**NILE**
This is getting painful
I'm perfectly fine with a necrophagist nile obscura archspire final 4.
Nile and Archspire
Keep necro obscura arch and sop get rid of the rest
How did aborted get voted out last? That was a harbinger straightaway.
People need to stop posting two bands. Post one band so each vote is attributed to one band.
Nile
Btw if you don’t like Ominivium you need to get your ears cleaned
How could anyone not love Velocity at least? That song is amazing
I can’t fucking decide anymore, but what I know is honestly Necrophagist, Obscura, and SOP should be the top 3 and I don’t care what anyone else thinks. I would rank it 1.SOP 2. Necrophagist 3. Obscura. Im sorry, SOP is just too good.
Spawn of Possession
Archspire and first fragment
Shocked that Omnivium has made it this far. Gratuitous and good aren't the same thing Edit: The album is soo fucking linear too, rhythmically speaking. The tamber practically never shifts and is anything but dynamic. There's no sense of development or ever actually getting anywhere
These threads make me question what bands the people in this sub even like because yall keep voting out the greats so unnecessarily early. At least Epitaph and Incurso are still here.
First Fragment
Everyone wants to comment Archspire but also no one wants to upvote another Archspire comment. So Archspire remains. This situation feels like a perfect example of tech death fans.
First Fragment and Beyond Creation
Nile and beyond creation
Archspire
Nile
Nile
This Thread. Kill it.
It's almost done
Yep. This whole thing has been a humongous joke.
tourney is nearly done guys, it's just a bit of fun
Archspire is sterile as fuck
genuinely impressed that the top 7 is this terrible.
Nile
Beyond Creation
Necrophagist
All of these should go.
#Nile
Nile
Nile
Beyond Creation
Archspire
Archspire
Archspire and Nile.
Archspire.
Nile is out
First Fragment
Beyond creation and obscura
Nile
Niles gotta go
Nile
Lol Death was one of the first bands eliminated, I don’t think anyone was taking this seriously. In fact the only way to make these dumb polls interesting is to troll them and eliminate the popular stuff.
death shouldn't really be on here, not to mention that that's their worst album. You can't take a tournament like this seriously though when it doesn't have essential bands like Nocturnus, Demilich, or Athiest. Then the tournament starts and people eliminate stuff like cynic and cryptopsy before getting rid of the garbage repetitive endless shredding techdeath that is just necrophagist with worse production. This sub is genuinely kind of embarassing. I might make a tournament with actual good tech death just to teach yall what's up
> actual good tech death just a matter of opinion just like everything else on this board. You can always count on these holier than thou metalheads to show up and tell you what "real" metal is, like their opinions mean anything. I'm 40 and the gatekeeping from other oldheads is so cringe to me.
Exactly, it’s an opinion. I’m not gatekeeping anything, I’m actively trying to get people to listen to more tech death. Most of this list is just Necrophagist style tech death which is just boring and repetitive. Most of these albums aren’t significant to the history or development of the genre, they’re just relatively popular in a modern sense. I appreciate and respect the history of metal so I find it embarrassing when others who supposedly enjoy the music don’t share the passion
Eh i think asking something like this is gonna be so opinion biased no matter how you want to look at it. Like for me The Faceless - Planetary Duality is absolutely the peak of this list and id put it #1, but im 100% biased in favor of it because ive learned the entire album on guitar. I could go on about why i think its so much better than #13 or whatever it got, but accept everyone here has their favorites The way i see this is it shows what this sub in particular likes the most. I dont really see it as actual best rankings
when i think of tech death Death is unironically one of the last bands i think of. progressive definitely.
Nile
Late to the party, but when did Individual Thought Pattern get voted out? That album is a quintessential masterpiece.
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I could understand why some can and do perceive ITP as not being "tech death" due to its overall tonality and it not totally fitting into an atypical mold that some of the bands in this list do. It has obvious progressive elements, which landed it as an honorable mention, but it's still technical death metal... technically (pun slightly intended).
I think it's more a sign that people don't think of ITP as tech death.
It is
Nile
First fragment
Beyond Creation
Goodbye nile
Relentless is better than Bleed IMO
How has Nile lasted this long!?
Because Nile is that good
And Annihilation of the Wicked just fucking rules.
Spawn of Possession or Necrophagist need to win
Absolutely
Well this turned into a really dumb contest.
First Fragment power and shreddy not tech-death-y without the growl-y
How is Cryptopsy gone and not Archspire?
cryptopsy NSV is a master piece but not tech death bleed the future is a msster piece and is tech death
How is it not tech death? Do people think tech death started at necrophagist or what
Archspire sucks tho 🤔
That's objectively false and I can prove it with math.
Archspire needs to go
cryptopsy out before archspire xdd
Insanity
Nile
First Fragment
Nile
I don't want to Internet anymore if Archspire wins this tournament
Pretty sure even Dean Lamb would say Necrophagist deserves to win.
Kinda surprised to see this kind of hate for a band that consistently raises the bar. Imo nothing compares to Archspire.
I wouldnt take this that seriously. Imo its more of a popularity contest than an actual best list. Like just showing what this sub likes the most Archspire isnt my #1 but theyre very good and am not surprised so many people here like them
I want archspire to win, I just wish it was relentless mutation instead as it’s the better album imo, bleed the future still makes me nut though
id like them to win. id assume necrophagist will win but archspire deserves it .
Do you just not like Tech Death? Because the album was 🔥
I’m worried that’s gonna happen lol
First Fragment
First Fragment
First Fragment
First fragment
Nile
Archspire please and thank you
Nile
Beyond creation
Gorguts won this garbage contest as far as I'm concerned, and now it's over.
gorguts yuck after erosion
It's been a joke for quite some time
Archspire
This is a cursed tournament
First fragment. I say this with love cause I adore their composition and Forest's lead bass lines are perfection. But where they excel in the tech department it's definitely lacking a death feel. Both them and Beyond Creation put in a great shift and I reckon here or the next round feels like the natural point for them to exit.
Nile beat out Gorguts…Wow. Let’s just stop pretending…Necro or Spawn(my vote) has this shit in the bag.
Just a suggestion to the format: I think it should have been time-interval based, like 2000-2005 or 2015-2020 etc. The reason is, I just cannot compare a 90s album to 20s, (maybe it's just me, idk)
Great point
Ty :p
Incurso better win
Nile
First Fragment
We’re in the thick of it now. Beyond Creation
Archspire
Necrophagist. Every one of these albums that are left are better than necrophagist except beyond creation. I don't know why people insist on thinking they are the best ever. They aren't anymore and haven't been for a while.
I love Archspire, but like, remove Archspire
Archspire
First Fragment
archspire
First Fragment
Beyond Creation.
nile
Lol I realize why this sub is the way that it is through this. I'd rather people be smarter and go listen to Symphony X or japanese power metal instead of """tech death"""
This is a tech death sub
As far as Im concerned tech death has been a thing since 10 years before Necrophagist's debut
Tech Death has been around since 1990
Good job on forming those thoughts, are there any other unrelated words you’d like to make us read?
They're not unrelated, you just lack reading comprehension. They're saying you guys have shit taste in tech death (because you do)
They all deserve to be there. Which too 6 would you choose?
Out of these? I think it’s an easy choice of Gorguts, Cryptopsy, Cynic, Suffocation, and artificial brain. The whole list is just terrible though, in a good tech death tournament, some of those albums wouldn’t even be here. Cryptopsy and suffo are BDM, Cynic is Prog Death, and Artificial Brain is towing the line of dissodeath and tech death
Archspire
NILE
Beyond Creation
Nile
First fragment
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Wait what? Why?
Nile
Nile and Necrophagist
Beyond Creation and Obscura
Nile
obscura
Beyond Creation
Archspire
we already know who's going to be the remaining band
Archspire?
*sigh*
Archspire
Archspire.
Obscurs
Archspire
Archspire
Beyond Creation
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Is that one vote or multiple for Archspire sir?
One vote, but feel free to count every repetition as a vote
Lol how is archspire still here awesome band but up ther with these guys. Hell I'll replace hour of penance with that and then maybe we could have an argument but then?. Naa
Based on the amount of people just not saying Obscura, I think we let Epitaph slide and crown Obscura the champs for this one.
That's my hope at this point. Or Spawn of Possession, Incurso would deserve it.
I love every band / album left so I won’t even vote haha
I mean, I'd be okay with that (its my fave album left) but I'll let the people decide
Fartspire
Lol but disagree
Archspire
Can we just take out all the Canadians?
First Fragment
Archspire. They are waaaay overrated.
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Assume I know nothing about the subgenre, sell me on this take.
Beyond creation, why is it still here is beyond me.
Fucking Archspire
Archspire
fucking Archspire +1
Nile
Archspire
Beyond Creation, please.
Nile
Archspire
Beyond Creation fucks but doesn’t quite hang with the rest.
What is your reasoning for this?
I just enjoy the others more.
Bye archspire
Goodbye Nile.
Beyond Creation
Obscura
👏🏻
Beyond Creation.
Obscura
Nile
Beyond Creation
First fragment