Technical Death Metal fans, what do you like (love) and dislike about bands in the genre?

Question

take for example Theory in Practice, I love how they have speedy and technical 16th note well composed guitar phrasing, lines and runs, and they have awesome chaotic features BUT what I dislike is they GO ON AND ON AND ON with it they don’t know when to break the monotony a little and through some GROOVE in their songs.

Spawn Of Possession, again I like their technical features but they overdue the “Traditional Death Metal Drum signatures where its very very fast rapid Snare Drum hits and alternating from bass drum to snare drum really really fast that gets old, I am also not a fan of their guitar tone.

A band that I LOVE that does an all around good job with KILLER melodic features, technical features, and GROOVE features is Born of Osiris I love those guys, also I like Sleep Terror.

what about YOU what do you like or dislike about the genre?

and I want TO SEE THUMBS UP for everyone, no thumb down trolling PLEASE.

Answer 1

I like the ability of the players...for example Necrophagist has great guitar playing....I guess the downside is I find sometimes they focus so hard on making the song "technical" that the song loses some flow.

although this kinda goes against my last sentence, I also dig the technical drumming which is off-beat and interesting.  Like the person above who doesn't like the constant blast beats, I like the drummers that have interesting fills and not a constant barrage of fast snare hits.  Check out Darkthrone's - Soulside Journey for a lesson in technical drumming (without the blast beats).  Great stuff  

Answer 2

im just starting to get into more technical stuff, but i love born of osiris.

is BTBAM technical death metal? i like them too

Answer 3

Sometimes, they can get really boring, because you don't know what the h**l's going on. Sometimes there isn't any structure, and it's confusing. It's hard for me to tell the songs apart...  

Answer 4

Shred-meister....The ONE thing that drives me nuts in metal right now whether its death or even black is "blast beats"

As a drummer, there is nothing more mind numbing than an irritating blitzkreig of rattatatatatatttatatatatatatattatatatata... get the point.

Yes, it's hard as all get out to keep that up for an extended time....but sweet Moses it drives me nuts!