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.

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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

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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