Most Technical Music Youve Ever Listen To
 

I guess its kinda of hard to measure technicality when you have so many bands up there , well for me it would be

Necrophagist- Onest of Putrefecation
Athiest- All 3 Albums
Cynic-Focus
Cryptopsy-None So Vile

all of these blew my mind

im really only into metal, but im pretty sure there are albums from other genres that are just as insane and technical

I'd have to say Necrophagist. Every thing about them screams technical.

Just listen to the bass intro to Only Ash Remains - or any of the guitarwork or drumwork.

Cynic - Focus
Athiest - Piece Of Time or Unquestionable Prescence
The Dillinger Escape Plan - everything ever

Necrophagist!

DEP is up there, can't really thank of any others that i've listened to.

you all need to listen to Orthrelm and Behold... The Arctopus.

i hate to sound like a broken record, but ED ****ING GEIN! crazy tech metal. listen to "killing a co-worker", "bastard", or "nice shoes... wanna ****". all awesome songs.

I'm gonna have to say yes in terms of technicality, and no in terms of me enjoying them. With the exception of Alcoholocaust, this band defines wankery. And 99% of it is not good.

Alarum is also very very good. I can hook it up in need be

I don't play guitar, and have a hard time identifying what's technical and what isn't, so sue me. That said, a few bands that sound technical to my virgin ears are Into the Moat (though repetitive at times), and The Number 12. Oh, and PsyOpus, though they are quite repetitive, also.

Johann Sebastian Bach

You can rarely top Jazz in the technical department.

In terms of rock bands, excluding all the ones I don't care to remember, The Mahavishna Orchestra is pure pwnage.

You win.

I dont listen to much "technical" music, but out of what i do

id say

Trivium
Funeral for a friend
From first to last
Metallica

Why? Because he was the first to do it? I'd say he was one of the most talented musicians of all time, but not the most technical.

*Deep breath* BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Blink 182 ftw.

Why the laughing? FFTL is mind blowingly technical, what with their extremely varied music and complex guitar/drum parts.

Sonny might be the best singer ever to grace the planet.

UMMMMM WHAT????

I think the most technical music I've listened to is Spiral Architect...Nors K. Helborg FTW

Agreed.

Besides, I'd say Paganini pwns Bach in the technical department.

And listen up metallica fans, Metallica IS NOT THAT TECHNICAL... In this category it's not even close.

Anyway, bands/artists that are worthy of being mentioned here.

Dragonforce, even though I dispise them.
King Crimson, pretty much everyone who has ever been in the band is technical pwnage, except Boz Burrell, who only played on one Crimson album.
Return To Forever.
Weather Report.
Bela Fleck And The Fleckstones.
Dixie Dregs.
Yes.
Symphony X.
Yngwie Malmsteen, no comment.
Rush.
Meshuggah.
Deep Purple.
Iron Maiden.
Racer X.
Shawn Lane.
Miles Davis, duh.
Colonal Claypools Bucket Of Bernie Brains... Great name huh?
Jeff Beck.
Steve Vai.
Marty Fieldman.
Terry Bozzio.
Mr Bungle.
Stu Hamm.
P-Funk.
Steve Morse Band.
Billy Sheenan.
Danny Carry.
ELP.
Michael Manring.
Frank Zappa and everyone who has ever played with Frank Zappa at some point in time.
Camel.
Gong.
Alan Holdsworth.
Pat Metheny.
Tony Levin Band.
Genesis.
Dream Theater, as downright horrible as their music is, even I the greatest DT hater of em all can admit that these guys have talent, even if they don't know how to use it.

...Am I forgetting anyone?... Oh yeah, an endless sea of prog, metal and fusion bands that I wont bother to name.

I have heard Rhapsody to be technical (cant confirm, I only have one album and it had some decent solos).

Yeha i'd say there pretty technical, Alexi Starpoli must take up half of the tracks when there recording with all his orchestral work, oh and the orchestra themselves.


I really dont get crap like this

If they had a good songwriter, then god forbid they are perfectly able to play good music, and play it flawlessly, as long as they don't try to wank it up, of course.

They clearly are talented musicians, anyone who denies that is a fool.

You forgot Cacophony and Jason Becker? They might sound like pure wankage, but they have great melody in the shred department and great technicality. (Speed Metal Symphony ftw)

"An endless sea of prog, metal and fusion bands I won't bother to name"

I realised I left out a lot of people, but posts have character limits, m'kay? ;)

Techicality isn't based on speed. I can play Dragonforce on the piano. It's a very basic chord progression simply played fast. I like Dragonforce but they are no where near a "technical" band

They still are more technical than a lot of other bands. They can sweep, finger tap, and do many other techniques. Of course there are those who do it better, but I would still consider their use of them pretty skillful. They certainly have simple solos on a chord progression level but on an overall level, its hard to say that the solos are nothing. Plus their use of other instruments together in their instrumental bridges ( and keyboard and bass solos). They might be overrated to most, but I stand by the statement that they are technical.

Speed is a part of technicality, though it's far from being very important.

Saying they are not technical at all is a bit much, you don't always have to play very complex chords/scales to be technical, as precision is just as important.

Estradasphere
Bela Fleck and the Flecktones
King Crimson
Yes (70's)

All 3 three pages of you people are missing one of the most technical bands to ever grace the human ear!!

Between the Buried and Me

Trust me pick up Alaska and find out why.

Yeah, I also find that Yes have been wasting their talent for the past 25 years, mainly because they have been neglecting their instrumental abillities to go for a more accessible "pop" sound, which isn't their thing, and after a wave of mediocre albums like Talk and Open Your Eyes it's easy to assume that they have since learned their mistakes, Magnification is proof of this, so heres hoping their next album (which is apparrantly in the works) will have Yes returning to their Symphonic Prog roots.

lol. They're good and all but check out estradasphere. They'll blow your mind.

estradasphere are awesome..

i listen to all types of music, but metal genres mostly. but these are some bands that I find to be technical in their playing

1. Lamb of God
2. Unearth
3. Trivium- pre crusade
4. BDM

Also a really good technical band that does great songs that are also really catchy is Into Eternity.

From a musicians stand point, I'll have to say simply no. It's all minor diatonic scales. Either A or D. And it's all based on the ATG style of playing music

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00-00-00-00-0-00-0

that sorta stuff.

The New York Dolls


*leaves thread*

lol drag queens

King Crimson (just got Red)

:)

IMO their most technical album is probably THRAK.. Primarly because of Tony Levin and Trey Gunn's extensive use of Chapman Stick and Warr Guitar, which are extremely difficult instruments to play, mainly because they fill in many different roles at once.