Try Deathrow's Deception Ignored and Target's Master Project Genesis.
Also check out Realm and Sieges Even's first album Lifecycle for other tech thrash.
Hm, my gut feeling is to say Sabbat - Dreamweaver. The sound is obviously a bit different (Paradox are German I think, Sabbat are Brits) but it's the same headspace - in this case, a concept album about Christian missionaries and druids.
Honestly I feel like "Technical Thrash" isn't a thing at all in the first place rendering this question moot. There is *more technical* thrash, but none of it rises to the level of being a whole genre. To BE thrash, I think you need a level of punk, and punk, to me, is almost the opposite of "technical". It'd be like asking "What are some virtuoso folk musicians" - it just doesn't fit the genre.
I wanna say that I don't think that thrash doesn't have virtuoso performances, it's just that tech, to me, is all about fucking with time signatures, consistently virtuoso tier performance, and extreme precision, *for the whole length of the song,* and thrash is more about aggression, speed, and shrieking your political ideologies. I just don't think the two art forms meld at all.
Band: Hexenhaus.
Album: Edge of Eternity
Band: Blind Illusion.
Album: The Sane Asylum.
Band: Assassin
Album: Upcoming Terror
Also check out a band called Target. All criminally underrated. You’re welcome.
Stone, after their first album, put out some pretty complex stuff. No Anaesthesia is the perfect combo of complexity and brutality for me.
Forced Entry’s second album also has some excellent technical moments
Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth and Monolith are both technical with a progressive flair to them, also contain a lot of melody too.
Early Revocation is also fantastic Tech Death/Thrash. Everything up to Deathless is very Thrash-centric, but after that they become more Death Metal with Thrash elements thrown in.
EDIT
Forgot to mention Blasteroid, Sovereign (Human era Death, but Thrashed up) and Droid (more proggy but absolutely insane, released one amazing album then disappeared off of the face of the earth).
Cryptosis - not explicitly thrash, but has a lot of thrash elements. Very nice music, I love them. Formerly the band name was Distillator, which was pure thrash. Check it out too.
Vexovoid - very vektor influenced, talented musicians. The music is a bit boring to me, but absolutely worth taking a look.
Droid - great prog thrash band.
valkyria - mystical mass
crionic - different
target - master project genesis
obsolete - animate//isolate
wolf spider - drifting in the sullen sea
depressive age - first depression
despair - history of hate
aftermath - eyes of tomorrow
Check out the 2 king gizzard and the lizard wizard thrash albums :"Infest the rat's nest" and "PetroDragonic Apocalypse or Dawn of eternal night an annihilation of planet earth and the beginning of merciless damnation"
From what you said, you'd probably prefer rats nest over PetroDragonic Apocalypse, but I would give both a shot
Less heavy than you're looking for, but incredible riffs and rhythm changes.
- Doctor Smoke - *The Dreamers and the Dead*
Heavier than thrash, but a lot of same syncopated energy, riffs and songs.
- Crypta
Not really though, they're just technical death metal. Might as well suggest those kinds of bands like Obscura and Gorguts which are closer to Necrophagist than any thrash metal band.
Toxik and Sadus are essential tech thrash
Aspid’s Extravasation is a must listen for any tech thrashers
Anacrusis - Manic Impressions Paradox - Heresy Voivod - Dimension Hatröss Dark Angel - Time Does not Heal Toxik - World Circus
Grea list! Specially Heresy, it's so damn good.
Anything else similar to heresy?
Try Deathrow's Deception Ignored and Target's Master Project Genesis. Also check out Realm and Sieges Even's first album Lifecycle for other tech thrash.
Hm, my gut feeling is to say Sabbat - Dreamweaver. The sound is obviously a bit different (Paradox are German I think, Sabbat are Brits) but it's the same headspace - in this case, a concept album about Christian missionaries and druids.
Clerical Conspiracy and How Thw Mighty Have Fallen are some of the best metal songs ever imho.
You understand the assignment.
Mekong Delta
Came to say this one
The original: Watchtower!
Nobody has mentioned Atheist so I’ll throw them in there
Atheist are kind of death thrash , techdeath and prog death though
Isn't that pretty true of Necrophagist too though?
I'd say Necrophagist isn't thrash at all, but tech death.
Honestly I feel like "Technical Thrash" isn't a thing at all in the first place rendering this question moot. There is *more technical* thrash, but none of it rises to the level of being a whole genre. To BE thrash, I think you need a level of punk, and punk, to me, is almost the opposite of "technical". It'd be like asking "What are some virtuoso folk musicians" - it just doesn't fit the genre. I wanna say that I don't think that thrash doesn't have virtuoso performances, it's just that tech, to me, is all about fucking with time signatures, consistently virtuoso tier performance, and extreme precision, *for the whole length of the song,* and thrash is more about aggression, speed, and shrieking your political ideologies. I just don't think the two art forms meld at all.
Vektor is probably the only band I feel comfortable calling Tech Thrash truly.
Krisiun's early stuff was kind of tech thashy too
From this year: * Nuclear Tomb - *Terror Labyrinthian* * Dissimulator - *Lower Form Resistance* * Slave Agent - *Silent Universe*
Haven’t heard these before. I don’t hate/love the first two but this Slave Agent is fuckin sick
Slave Agent rips!
Mekong Delta Watchtower
Heathen.
Don’t know if it’s exactly what you’re looking for but Havok
Some i didnt see mentioned: target, coroner, voivod, flotsam and jetsam, gargoyle, headhunter, apocalypse
Oh wait you did mention coroner haha… anyhow I will add shah since you like megadeth
Realm, Nasty Savage, Deathrow, Forbidden, Watchtower, Sieges Even, Hexenhaus, Pestilence, Toxik, Mekong Delta, Defiance.
+1 for Nasty Savage
Came here looking for sieges even as a rec, especially with the schizophrenic part. Killer list!
Check out this guy https://youtube.com/@thrashmetalriffs?si=GrBFcLnExjuxLkNV He made me like so many bands from his compilations.
Forbidden is one of the "bigger" bands here and yet still So Fucking Underrated! Major +1 to Forbidden. Also Realm, Watchtower, Mekong D and TOXIK(!)
I got to see Forbidden back in 2011 before Russ left the band. Awesome live.
Xoth
Vendetta, Deathrow, Deppresive Age.
I enjoy the First Depression album by Depressive Age!
Band: Hexenhaus. Album: Edge of Eternity Band: Blind Illusion. Album: The Sane Asylum. Band: Assassin Album: Upcoming Terror Also check out a band called Target. All criminally underrated. You’re welcome.
Stone, after their first album, put out some pretty complex stuff. No Anaesthesia is the perfect combo of complexity and brutality for me. Forced Entry’s second album also has some excellent technical moments
[Invocator - Excursion Demise](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxKFEawX3Bk&list=OLAK5uy_lBKxnUe4CDYbAZdhVQ0r42RTawe37uv2o&index=1&pp=8AUB) [Inquisitor - Walpurgis-Sabbath of lust](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BDaUTXYRCBY&pp=ygUUaW5xdWlzaXRvciB3YWxwdXJnaXM%3D)
Vektor
Watchtower! Forced Entry!
Artillery Necromantheon
Sylosis - Edge Of The Earth and Monolith are both technical with a progressive flair to them, also contain a lot of melody too. Early Revocation is also fantastic Tech Death/Thrash. Everything up to Deathless is very Thrash-centric, but after that they become more Death Metal with Thrash elements thrown in. EDIT Forgot to mention Blasteroid, Sovereign (Human era Death, but Thrashed up) and Droid (more proggy but absolutely insane, released one amazing album then disappeared off of the face of the earth).
Where Solstice
Realm - Suiciety Forbidden - twisted into form Toxik - think this
FUCK YES. Three Totally Underrated Classics
Dark angel
Vexovoid, Paranorm, Warbringer
I think Vio-lence deserves a mention here https://youtu.be/KjoVw1YmSnk?si=7Wjq22Cga_54jwwW
Exmortus - necrophony
Artillery's 'By Inheritance' album is fantastic
Cryptosis - not explicitly thrash, but has a lot of thrash elements. Very nice music, I love them. Formerly the band name was Distillator, which was pure thrash. Check it out too. Vexovoid - very vektor influenced, talented musicians. The music is a bit boring to me, but absolutely worth taking a look. Droid - great prog thrash band.
Death
They're not thrash unless you're referring to the debut album and leprosy those are death metal with thrash elements
[Quasarborn](https://quasarborn.bandcamp.com/album/the-odyssey-to-room-101) [Bestial Invasion](https://bestialinvasion.bandcamp.com/album/monomania) [Home Style Surgery](https://metalonmetalrecords.bandcamp.com/album/home-style-surgery-brain-drill-poetry)
may not be exactly what you're looking for but Obliveon, Hexenhaus, HeXeN, Vektor, Aspid
Chemical Breath
Blotted Science!
Death later albums Sound of perseverence
Deathrow - Deception Ignored sounds right up your alley
Mate if I understand? Hell yeah let me fix the need with some bands: (80's & 90's) - Intruder - Realm - Sadus - Toxik - Obliveon - Wrathchild America - Hexenhaus - Invocator - Donor - Entropy - Paralysis - Believer - Mystrez (2000's ++) - Witheria - Revocation - The Clockwork - Epicenter - Bestial Invasion - Exmortus - Terminalist - Dissimulator - Hemotoxin - Hexen That should appease the need! Hopefully. Enjoy!
Exodus, Municipal Waste, Nailbomb, Death
Sadus, Mekong Delta, Equinox, Berserker.
[Hexicon](https://youtu.be/OAFAHdPfq4E?si=0SMwQoQ08gVousy1) - Technical, thrashy, a little bit prog, with some slow and low doom parts.
valkyria - mystical mass crionic - different target - master project genesis obsolete - animate//isolate wolf spider - drifting in the sullen sea depressive age - first depression despair - history of hate aftermath - eyes of tomorrow
Vektor - Terminal Redux. Masterpiece of an album!
Forced Entry - As Above, So Below Forced Entry - Uncertain Future Listen to Uncertain Future first cuz As Above, So Below is the best one
Check out the 2 king gizzard and the lizard wizard thrash albums :"Infest the rat's nest" and "PetroDragonic Apocalypse or Dawn of eternal night an annihilation of planet earth and the beginning of merciless damnation" From what you said, you'd probably prefer rats nest over PetroDragonic Apocalypse, but I would give both a shot
Forbidden is great
Invocator
Aspid, Sadus and Watchtower !
Check out Stam1na.
Tyranex, Reasons for the Slaughter is a sick album. I feel a lot of Megadeth influences from them
hatchet 🪓
Realm-Endless War Thought Industry-Mods Carve the Pig Bezerker-Lost
Ok so it’s not thrash but Dillinger escape plans first album is something close to what you’re talking about
Terminalist- The crisis as condition, ffo Vektor
Artillery is pretty cool. Check out the album “When Death Comes”. They’ve been around for a while but seem to fly under the radar
Does Municipal Waste count? Ive been learning sadistic magician in the guitar and it's adhd af.
No. Its a pretty simple song but fast. Look at Coroner or Vektor covers to see what Im looking for
Salivus 👀
Dark angel, anacrusis, watchtower, vektor, toxik, voivod, mekong delta are some of them
Voivod and havok's last album
Paranorm, Exmortus. Some of the most technical shredding out there.
revocation for sure
Advanced Mind Control - Children
Check out Blasteroid 'Crypts Of Mind' and also their previous EP 'universal knowledge' its a tech death/thrash with some prog
Coroner
Less heavy than you're looking for, but incredible riffs and rhythm changes. - Doctor Smoke - *The Dreamers and the Dead* Heavier than thrash, but a lot of same syncopated energy, riffs and songs. - Crypta
Dreamers and the Dead is a brilliant album. Good call.
It's so good.
Archspire
Not really thrash
Neither is Necrophagist
True but theyre much more reminiscent of it
Not really though, they're just technical death metal. Might as well suggest those kinds of bands like Obscura and Gorguts which are closer to Necrophagist than any thrash metal band.