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title: "Cognitive"
type: "MusicGroup"
url: "https://themetalnet.com/band/cognitive"
genre: "Technical Death Metal"
formed: 2011
---

# Cognitive

**Cognitive** is a technical death metal band, active 2011 to present.

## Facts

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Name | Cognitive |
| Genre | Technical Death Metal |
| Parent genre | Death Metal |
| Origin | New Jersey |
| Formed | 2011 |
| Releases in catalog | 6 |

## Genres

[Deathcore](https://themetalnet.com/genre/deathcore) · [Technical Death Metal](https://themetalnet.com/genre/technical-death) · [Death Metal](https://themetalnet.com/genre/death-metal)

## Line-up

| Musician | Instruments | Years | Status |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Shane Jost](https://themetalnet.com/musician/shane-jost) | Lead vocals, Principal | 2017 to present | Current |

## Discography

| Year | Release | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2012 | [The Horrid Swarm](https://themetalnet.com/album/857d1542-81f2-40fb-856f-5986bd0cef6a) | EP |
| 2014 | [Cognitive](https://themetalnet.com/album/279be8c0-baac-4673-9a81-ae91402ae1c0) | Album |
| 2016 | [Deformity](https://themetalnet.com/album/f3a9fea7-c1e6-428b-860d-8f3a7b702bff) | Album |
| 2018 | [Matricide](https://themetalnet.com/album/91d58912-bece-418e-8408-d5d1f8d94558) | Album |
| 2021 | [Malevolent Thoughts of a Hastened Extinction](https://themetalnet.com/album/61bc8525-925b-4768-8498-82d8df3b8a74) | Album |
| 2024 | [Abhorrence](https://themetalnet.com/album/2142263a-a50d-4e1d-9641-e8ffe34c3933) | Album |

## Related bands

- [Aborted](https://themetalnet.com/band/aborted) (listened together)
- [Cognizance](https://themetalnet.com/band/cognizance) (listened together)
- [Dying Fetus](https://themetalnet.com/band/dying-fetus) (listened together)
- [Vulvodynia](https://themetalnet.com/band/vulvodynia) (listened together)
- [Soreption](https://themetalnet.com/band/soreption) (listened together)
- [Cannibal Corpse](https://themetalnet.com/band/cannibal-corpse) (listened together)
- [Suffocation](https://themetalnet.com/band/suffocation) (listened together)
- [Obscura](https://themetalnet.com/band/obscura) (listened together)
- [Slayer](https://themetalnet.com/band/slayer) (listened together)
- [Despised Icon](https://themetalnet.com/band/despised-icon) (listened together)
- [Greylotus](https://themetalnet.com/band/greylotus) (same tags)
- [The Schoenberg Automaton](https://themetalnet.com/band/the-schoenberg-automaton) (same tags)

## Official and external links

- spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Hlqz8aUm8vneFH4NFxepf
- deezer: https://www.deezer.com/artist/5404705
- youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsEAwM5z1lWPp0ps9Uf6qzg
- bandcamp: https://cognitivenewjersey.bandcamp.com/
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Cognitivenj
- x: https://twitter.com/cognitive_nj
- metal archives: https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Cognitive/3540349334
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cognitive_nj/
- apple music: https://music.apple.com/us/artist/551895725

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Source: [TheMetalNet https://themetalnet.com/band/cognitive](https://themetalnet.com/band/cognitive). Catalog data from MusicBrainz and Metal Archives. Full site index: https://themetalnet.com/llms.txt