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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Both, trading off When someone is singing, what should come out? | harsh | 80% | ×3 |
| As fast as anyone can play What pace? | 10 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The nineties Does it matter when it was made? | 1991 | 100% | ×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 | 90% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, pace 2, era 1, about 1, melody 1 out of 8. 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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Celtic metal 88%
Irish melodies and traditional instruments over black or heavy metal.
4 steps from Technical death metal, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Celtic metal -
Cyber metal 86%
Mechanised death metal with cold digital production, dual vocals and science-fiction themes.
4 steps from Technical death metal, meeting it only at Heavy metal.
The way into Cyber metal
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
- Both, trading off put 72 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Blues rock, Doom metal. Worth 3 of 8.
- 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 8.
- The nineties put 23 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Blues rock, Progressive rock, Rock and roll. Worth 1 of 8.
- Somewhere else entirely put 106 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Punk rock, Hardcore punk, Alternative rock. Worth 1 of 8.
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.