Hey there Tech-fiends, it's that time of the week again. I thought I'd do a year-end feature similar to how I ended my 2017 coverage, with another extensive best of feature for my favorite 2017 tech-death releases.

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Out of all the releases I’ll list in this piece here is my absolute top 15 tech-death releases of 2018 in no particular order:

If any of those names are new to you, be sure to click on them to check them out.



The following two lists below highlight the rest of my other favorite 2018 tech-death full-lengths and a secondary list for favorite EPs which will be unranked to save me the hassle of trying to place them in a highly specific order. Instead, place a little blind trust in me that each one listed is well worth investing time in or checking out at a minimum. Especially if it's by bands you haven't heard of so far, an important point of distinction since my goal with this column is to show you more of what's out there that's good beyond what most of us know.



I'm going to place all my lesser known favorites first overall, and the ones from established names after, that way you can get a sense of what you might have missed in 2018 in an easy streamlined way. Lastly, we all have different favorites, so if a favorite of yours isn't here, it just simply didn't pan out as a favorite of mine for the year. Hopefully, you will find some good new music you didn't know existed until now, that's the real goal here. Each release listed below hyperlinks to it's prospective Bandcamp pages in order to make checking these out easy. Happy hunting. *Some of the ones below are ones I didn’t get to covering here so even if you follow this space I urge you to check the two lists below. Likewise, there are a few more 2018 releases I’d prefer to highlight next year in full so a few missing here may be featured early next year in this way.



MY FAVORITE TECHNICAL DEATH METAL ALBUMS RELEASED IN 2018

Xenosis – Devour and Birth

Clavicus Vile – The Nightspirit's Call

Exterminatus – Laniakea

Misanthropy – Abhorrent Metamorphosis

Aparia – Beyond The Walls Of Man

Nails Of Imposition – Surpassing Carbon Decay

Kairos – Simulgression

Sleep Terror – El Insomne

Burial In The Sky – Creatio et Hominus

Replicant – Negative Life

Decrescent – Blackened Bequest

Apophys – Devoratis

Nostril Caverns – Sanity's Unnecessary Elaborations

Apocrophex – Æternalis

Unflesh – Savior

Nightmarer – Cacophony of Terror

Unbirth – Fleshforged Columns of Deceit

The Beast of Nod – Vampira: Disciple of Chaos

Exlimitir – It Weighed Itself In Silver

Pestilent Reign – Pyres

Gourmand – Blossoming from the Grave

Dysmorphic – An Illusive Progress

Exocrine – Molten Giant

Cognitive – Matricide

Inferi – Revenant



MY FAVORITE TECHNICAL DEATH METAL EP'S RELEASED IN 2018



Hatalom – Of Sorrow And Human Dust

Hadal Maw – Charlatan

The Odious Construct – Shrine of the Obscene

Cruelty Exalted – Cruelty Exalted

Mordant Rapture – The Abnegation

Blame – Almanac

Where Deprivation Lies -Psalms to the Synthetic Divine

Dischordia – Binge/Purge

Karmacipher – 陣獄

Hatred Reigns – Realm I: Affliction

Samskaras – Lithification

The Arsonist's Daughter – Mnemonist

Terminal Function – The Great Liberator

Autotheism – CLSTVM: Dogma Sculptured in the Flesh