I chose not to repeat artists so half the list isn't Inferi

I graduated in 2010. Honestly those shitty long bus rides blessed me with a lot of listening.

I still play guitar, not good enough to play Necrophagist - but I have learned bits and pieces of some of these records - 'Evolutionary Sleeper', 'Coldly Calculated Design', 'Noospheres', 'Incarnated', Dillinger tritones/chromatics, bought Chris Arp instruction books etc.

I agree that Krallice, Psyopus and Dillinger aren't death metal - but they shred

Not all are exactly Tech Death but for me are the same. Awesome albums :)

this was so difficult to make lmao. My fav albums/what made me listen to tech-death.

I wouldn't consider all of these tech. But albums like Genesis by JFAC are musical milestones for me. I liked all their releases, but that was the first one that opened up a different kind of metal music for me.

Being tech or not, they all represent a sound or an approach to writing and playing techniques (that also influenced my own guitar playing). They're are also all albums I can listen to without skipping a single song to this day.

I like bands like Spawn of Posession, Death, Necrophagist, Inferi, Zenith Passage, Soreption, Carnosus, Summoning the Lich and just so so many more but they either didn't put out albums that I can consistently enjoy listening to without skips or just never had an impact as big in me as the albums on my list.

Also I didn't want to put more than one album by the same band.

Kinda black grind tech death. Absurdly heavy and relentless. FFO: Thantifaxath

:D

once again, not purely tech

Archspire - Relentless Mutation

The Zenith Passage - Datalysium

The Faceless - Planetary Duality

Cephalic Carnage - Lucid Interval

Origin - Antithesis

First Fragment - Gloire Èternelle

Necrophagist - Epitaph

Lost Soul - Chaostream

Anata - The Conductor's Departure

I tried to pick records that we don't see every day on here, love seeing what everyone else has going on.

This album is just incredible