Necrophagist

technical death metal · Karlsruhe

Founded

1992

City

Karlsruhe

Status as of 5 September 2026

inactive

Connections

7 edges, 7 distinct neighbors · betweenness 0.004 (rank 93 of 371) · people and production 0.000 (rank 261)

Confidence

High · sources: [W] [EIN] [MA] (register)

Epitaph (2004, Relapse) is the record the second wave of technical death metal starts from; Christian Münzner and Hannes Grossmann go on to Obscura and Alkaloid. The retrospective literature names Death, Atheist and Cynic as the bands that brought the technicality it builds on.

Connections

Lineage

• spawnedObscuraChristian Münzner and Hannes Grossmann2008

Influence

• influenced byDeathNamed in the retrospective literature with Atheist and Cynic1992
• influenced byAtheist1992
• influenced byCynic1992
• influencedArchspire2009

Labels, festivals, tours, collaborations

• collaborationOrigin2000s
• labelRelapse RecordsEpitaph2004