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Technical death metal 1991
Death metal with jazz harmony, tapping and impossible drumming. The more notes per second, the better.
- Heaviness
- 9
- Speed
- 10
- Melody
- 4
- Where from
- USA / Canada
- Tempo
- 160-260 bpm
- Song length
- 4-7 min
- Written about
- Consciousness and the cosmos, Mortality, abstractly, Mathematics, Science fiction
- Vocals
- Growled or shrieked
Why this one
| You said | Technical death metal | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| A growl or a shriek When someone is singing, what should come out? | harsh | 100% | ×3 |
| There, but not the point How much weight do you want behind it? | 9 out of 10 | 60% | ×2 |
| As fast as anyone can play What pace? | 10 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The beginnings Does it matter when it was made? | 1991 | 12% | ×1 |
| Somewhere else entirely What should the words be about? | Consciousness and the cosmos, Mortality, abstractly, Mathematics, Science fiction | 100% | ×1 |
| Something to hold on to Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 4 out of 10 | 80% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 81% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 6 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, about 1, melody 1 out of 10. Technical death metal leads the next by 3 points. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Entombed, Left Hand Path 1990
Entombed - Left Hand Path. The first twenty seconds explain the entire Swedish sound.
- 2The one to put on first
Death, Human 1991
Death - Human. The moment the genre became music to study, not just to hear.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Death metal, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Technical death metal's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Screamo 74%
Emo pushed into hysteria: continuous screaming, cutting guitars and songs that collapse into silence. Also called skramz.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 9 steps from Technical death metal.
The way into Screamo -
First wave 74%
The bands that supplied the name and the themes, while still playing speed or thrash metal. Venom released the album that christened the genre.
4 steps from Technical death metal, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into First wave
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- A growl or a shriek put 78 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Blues rock, Doom metal. Worth 3 of 10.
- As fast as anyone can play put 4 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Doom metal, Drone metal, Funeral doom. Worth 2 of 10.
- The beginnings put 67 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Metalcore, Nu metal. Worth 1 of 10.
- Somewhere else entirely put 106 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. Worth 1 of 10.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.