Hey there Tech-fiends, it's that time of the week again. I thought I'd do something special to end the year with and do an extensive 2016 best of feature for Tech-Death Tuesday. Then once 2017 begins, I'll be right back at it with plenty of early exclusive streams and new underground acts to show you all year long. So until next year, have a good one.
I really hate having to rank my favorites, as they are numerous, and I genuinely rarely think of my favorite releases for any year in a ranked way. So the following list of my favorite 2016 tech-death full-lengths (and the secondary list for favorite EPs) will be unranked to save me the stress and fretting over placing them in some highly specific order. Instead, place a little blind trust in me that each one listed is well worth investing time in (though you'll gravitate to some more then others depending on your tastes) if its one you haven't heard so far. I'm going to place all my lesser known favorites first and the ones from established names after, that way you can get a sense of what you might have missed in an easy streamlined way.
My favorite technical death metal albums released in 2016
Crator – The Ones Who Create : The Ones Who Destroy – Listen
Infinite Density – Recollapse Of The Universe – Listen
Australis – Spaces Of Hope – Listen
Polyptych – Defying The Metastasis – Listen
Intonate – The Swerve – Listen
Deviant Process – Paroxysm – Listen
Coma Cluster Void – Mind Cemeteries – Listen
Azooma – The Act Of Eye – Listen
Unfathomable Ruination – Finitude – Listen
Dawn Of Dementia – The Immolation Of Avernis – Listen
Spheron – A Clockwork Universe – Listen
Solinaris – Deranged – Listen
Virvum – Illuminance – Listen
Destroying The Devoid – Paramnesia – Listen
Breeding Filth – Perverse Devolution – Listen
Vipassi – Śūnyatā – *Since the band got signed, the album is being re-released in 2017. It's not up in full anymore.
Burial In The Sky – Persistence Of Thought – Listen
Slave One – Disclosed Dioptric Principles – Listen
Karmacipher – Necroracle – Listen
Wormhole – Genesis – Listen
Riftwalker – Green & Black – Listen
Neurogenic – Ouroboric Stagnation – Listen
Caecus – The Funeral Garden – Listen
Convulsing – Errata – Listen
Brain Drill – Boundless Obscenity – Listen
Obscura – Akróasis – Listen
Hannes Grossman – The Crypts Of Sleep – Listen
Allegaeon – Proponent For Sentience – Listen
First Fragment – Dasein – Listen
Wormed – Krighsu – Listen
The Zenith Passage – Solipsist – Listen
Entheos – The Infinite Nothing – Listen
Mithras – On Strange Loops – Listen
Ulcerate – Shrines Of Paralysis – Listen
Defeated Sanity – Disposal Of The Dead // Dharmata – Listen
Vale Of Pnath – II – Listen
My favorite technical death metal EPs released in 2016
Gorguts – Pleiades Dust – Listen
Mephistopheles – In Reverence Of Forever – Listen
Cognizance – Illusory – Listen
Equipoise – Birthing Homunculi – Listen
Proliferation – Rebirth: The Journey Through Soil – Listen
A Million Dead Birds Laughing – Umbilical Dystrophy / Air Missile Defense Battle Lab – Listen
Singularity – Voidwalker – Listen
Enigma – Stars Misaligned – Listen
Cancerous Womb – It Came To This – Listen
Malignancy – Malignant Future – Listen
Divinity – The Immortalist Pt. 2 – Momentum – Listen
The Noumenon – Terminus – Listen
Conflux Collective – The Inception – Listen
Sunless – Demo 2016 – Listen
Nightmarer – Chasm – Listen
Unflesh – Transcendence To Eternal Obscurity – Listen
Brought By Pain – Crafted By Society – Listen
Boreworm – Entomophobia – Listen
Torturous Inception – Void – Listen
