Spokane, Washington's Serpentspire have been one of the Pacific Northwest's most technically demanding death metal outfits since 2016, building elaborate, riff-dense compositions that push technical death metal into labyrinthine territory.

A young technical death metal outfit from Huntsville, Alabama, Serratia formed in 2024 and immediately set their sights on clinical precision and surgical riff construction. Their name — borrowed from the rod-shaped bacterium — signals an interest in the microscopic and malignant, matching a sound built on rapid-fire fretwork and punishing rhythmic density.

New York's Shiro-Ishii — named for the Imperial Japanese Army Unit 731 commander — combines technical death metal's surgical precision with grindcore's convulsive brutality, making for a relentlessly punishing and disturbing listen since 2018.

San Francisco's Shotgun Facelift take the experimental and technical end of deathcore into genuinely unpredictable territory, founded in 2020 and building a sound that treats the genre's heaviness as raw material for something far more dissonant and architecturally unusual.

An Albany, New York-based technical death metal outfit formed in 2022, Skeptic pursues the labyrinthine compositional complexity the genre demands — intricate riffing and rhythmic precision in service of an unyielding sonic assault.

Normal, Illinois' Skeptic brings an industrial edge to the technical death metal formula, combining mechanical rhythmic precision with the clinical brutality of tech-death in a sound that feels machine-driven and merciless.

Chattanooga, Tennessee technical death metal band formed in 2018, bringing precision and compositional density to the Southeast's underground death metal scene. Their approach favors surgical riff construction and rhythmic intricacy over pure speed alone.

Smothered Sun is a Maine technical death metal and deathcore band formed in 2022, combining the intricate fretwork and time-signature complexity of technical death metal with the groove and breakdown dynamics of deathcore.

California brutal/technical death metal band formed in 2022, taking their name from the Egyptian crocodile deity and channeling that ferocity into precisely executed, crushing extremity.