Technical Death Metal/Awesome Music

• Decapitated's "A Poem About an Old Prison Man". They turned a poem by the one and only Charles Manson into death metal perfection.
  • Organic Hallucinosis is a must-listen for any metal fan. Hell, the whole band's disography counts.
• Meshuggah: "Rational Gaze". Also 3:06-onward of "Straws Pulled at Random".
  • MIND-SIGNAL TRANSMISSION, PEAKED, DISTORTED, BENT! UN-RE-STRAINED!! "Closed Eye Visuals" is awesome.
  • No mention of Nothing would be complete without "Spasm". Coming out of left field with the lowest frequencies their strings of steel have ever unleashed, massaging the inside of your skull; Tomas's robotic, almost seductive sounding vocals; the steady peal of high palm-muted notes sounding like a Sega Genesis serenading a lover at Carnegie Hall. It's strangely beautiful, hypnotic, even serene...then the final measures unexpectedly shift in pitch, the elements now dissonant and clashing; a not-so-gentle reminder that this is still fucking Meshuggah you're listening to.
  • "Bleed". Every moment of it. That is all.
  • The album Catch Thirtythree. The whole thing. 13 tracks. 45 minutes. One song. Pure awesome. Special mentions to certain tracks on it are:
    • When the rhythm guitars come back in during "The Paradoxical Spiral". Pure groove/doom evilness.
    • The guitar solo in "Entrapment". While not a super technical solo, it just manages to sound so completely alien that it pushes it into deliberate Uncanny Valley territory.
      • Mentioning "Entrapment" and not that bend at the end of the song? DAT BEND.
    • "Mind's Mirrors." The pitch shifted, robotic sounding vocals manage to sound both beautiful yet ominous at the same time, the lyrics are incredibly trippy, and the outro leading up to the next track is great.
    • "In Death is Death", which is just... awesome.
    • Finally, "Sum". Everything from 1:00 on is perfect. Especially Jens' screams.
  • "Combustion" is a fucking insane song.
• Everything made by extreme prog metal band Opeth is bound to become absolutely epic. In all possible senses . Here's an example
  • THEEEEEEEEEEE GRAAAAAAAAAAAND COOOOONJURRRRAAAAAAATIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON
• Nile. A few songs stand out, like "Sarcophagus", "Von unaussprechlichen Kulten" and "I Whisper In the Ear of the Dead", but there are many others.
  • The breakdown in the song "Cast Down the Heretic".
  • The entire album of Those Whom the Gods Detest. In particular, the title track, and the final track, "Iskander D'hul Karnon". Beware: this song contains volatile levels of win.
• Cannibal Corpse's entire Gore Obsessed album is pure awesome death metal.
  • They seem to strike gold every 10 years, as Tomb of the Mutilated, Gore Obsessed, and Torture (1992, 2002, and 2012, respectively) have some of their best songs.
  • "From Skin To Liquid" and the instrumental version of "Frantic Disembowelment".
• The entire Antithesis album by Origin, specifically the title track. Begins with the quote "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds," and proceeds to kick your ass with a nine and a half minute technical death metal masterpiece.
• Cynic's debut album, Focus. The album is pure genius, especially the ending instrumental section of the last song, "How Could I".
• Vader is Poland's biggest act for a reason.
• Veil of Maya's [id]. Front to back. They, unlike many bands, can make Deathcore influence actually work.