O' Canada! (Ordered By Years)
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Good day folks! T'day, I just wanted to share the best of what Canada has to offer when it comes to Metal, eh. It seems a lot of people don't yet know that Canada's a force to be reckoned with when it comes to the heavy stuff and I'll show you just how much!
The main goal here is to help people discover the history of Canadian Metal through time and amazing releases. To do so, I'll be listing a single album per band and order the list by year of release from oldest to newest then I'll identify the genre for each of them. Note that the albums chosen aren't necessarily the best of each band but my personal favorites and in my humble opinion, good points of entry into a band's discography. I will try to fill each gaps in years over time and add new bands as I discover them. (So this list is permanently under construction). Also, as always in my lists, releases with a ''★'' are the ones I believe you shouldn't miss because of their impact, uniqueness or just because they are my favourites. There is a lot of different styles, I did my best to diversify so there should be something interesting for everyone! - - - - - - - - - - To my fellow Canadians, if you have recommendations or wanna point out obvious albums I might have missed, please feel free to let me know. To everyone else, I hope you'll like this virtual musical trip to the great white north! Enjoy. Oh and you're really all welcome to suggest albums. - Guib - Last Update: September 22nd, 2024
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| Redel Moderator Posts: 2275  |
Wow, so many bands from Canada! Wasnt really aware of that I have to admit. I am a bit surprised not to find Overthrow's absolute thrash gem Within Suffering here, more so since the list comes from an exposed thrash fanatic. 
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| Redel Moderator Posts: 2275 |
Oh, and ooops in case I was not invited to suggest albums since I dont fall under 'fellow Canadians'.
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3223  |
Written by Redel on 24.07.2023 at 23:28 Everyone's welcome to suggest albums and I do not even know of Overthrow's so I will go and check that out, especially since its Canadian Thrash!! Thanks for that Redel.
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| Blackcrowe Posts: 568  |
Great music from Canada From Gorguts I Choose Obscura
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3223 |
Obscura is absolutely brilliant but I prefer Considered Dead.
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| Roman Doez Hallucigenia Posts: 979  |
Cool list, here are some more suggestions: Black metal: Sorcier Des Glaces - The Puressence of Primitive Forests; Akitsa - Goétie; Frozen Shadows - Dans Les Bras Des Immortels; Csejthe - Réminiscence; La Torture Des Ténèbres - Civilization Is The Tomb Of Our Noble Gods; Turpitude - Une Interprétation De La Dissolution Glaciale En Quatre Mouvements Death metal: Dungeon Serpent - World of Sorrows; Grenadier - Trumpets Blare In Blazing Glory; Orchidectomy - A Prelate's Attrition; First Fragment - Gloire Éternelle; Rotting - Crushed; Sacramentory Abolishment - River Of Corticone Doom metal: Atramentus - Stygian Thrash metal: Droid - Terrestrial Mutations; Obliveon - From This Day Forward War metal: Revenge - Behold.Total.Rejection; Conqueror - War Cult Supremacy; Blasphemy - Fallen Angel Of Doom...; Axis Of Advance - Strike
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| Cynic Metalhead Ambrish Saxena Posts: 7600  |
Written by Roman Doez on 25.07.2023 at 10:47 None of them are "amazing releases". Good list, Guib. Will check out the ones flew off my radar.
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| Roman Doez Hallucigenia Posts: 979 |
Written by Cynic Metalhead on 25.07.2023 at 12:00 These are merely suggestions that some might find amazing. Opinions are, as always, subjective
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3223 |
Thanks man! Hope you'll enjoy
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3223 |
Written by Roman Doez on 25.07.2023 at 10:47 Thanks for the suggestions man I don't know most of those so I'll take my time to explore that.
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| A Real Mönkey Posts: 1219  |
Written by Roman Doez on 25.07.2023 at 13:25 Don’t listen to him. He hates anything not made in the 80s.
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3223 |
Written by Redel on 24.07.2023 at 23:26 Well well Redel! Thank you very much for that rec I looooove it. Can't believe I didn't know of it : Edit: Oh yeah and Im adding it to the list and its also going on my Thrash List.
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3223 |
Written by Roman Doez on 25.07.2023 at 10:47 Alright! So I began exploring and already I love Obliveon - From This Day Forward. Another Thrash band from Canada that I didnt know. Impressive! Plus its tech thrash... Its almost like you know me  Not a big fan of the Droid album though. I'll check more of your recs and keep ya posted. So yeah Im adding Obliveon. Edit: M'kay In the Death section, only one I love is First Fragment's Gloire Eternelle. Very original take on tech death. I absolutely love the bass.
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3223 |
Alright so I added two albums. 1. Prosperous Visions / by Primalfrost (2014 Melo Death) 2. Ascent Of Kings / by Cromlech (Doom metal released this year)
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| Gladius Posts: 61  |
Wow! Many thanks for the list. Some of my favourites bands are there, and still a lot of bands to explore. A thrash metal band called Alcoholator is definitely a win-win! 
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3223 |
Written by Gladius on 08.08.2023 at 10:14 Definitely a win-win haha glad you enjoy the list and that it can help you discover new stuff Cheers mate!
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| Auntie Sahar Drone Empress Posts: 5989  |
Good effort, lists zeroing in on a certain locales are always fun. See some albums in here I love, some I don’t know about, and others I know are good but aren’t quite my preferred type of metal. One suggestion: if you want to go all in with this, expand the chronology a bit. Pretty solid dent in it overall, and lists with 200 + albums can get excessive, but I noticed a few years you didn’t have any albums for at all, and I’m sure there was other stuff going on in the Canadian metal sphere during them.
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3223 |
Written by Auntie Sahar on 09.08.2023 at 04:40 Hey there Apothecary! Thanks a lot for the comment and feedback, I do agree there's definitely gaps that I could fill in the Canadian metal timeline and I'll work on it for sure. Also, its a fun thing to do because even I am discovering albums as Im making this list. I just wanna make sure that I don't fill the gaps with albums that are mediocre, otherwise it could easily become that 200+ list of "meh" releases. I want some quality Canadian metal y'know. As for the length of the list it doesn't bother me really, as long as the quality standard is respected. I mean, you've probably seen my thrash list hahaha, not scared to go large. Edit: Also, I realize I could probably fill the gaps with releases from a band already featured, but I really wanted it to be a list that helps discovering bands more than solely albums (and try to hook people to them by suggesting great material from said bands). But I don't know I might eventually go back on that In order to cover every year if I don't have enough different bands to do so. But yeah, I'm gonna keep working on that thanks again!
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3223 |
Just made a big update on this list!
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3223 |
Alright, more additions. The last time was a bit too huge to list but here it goes I'll list some of them. 1. Moxy - Moxy (1975 - Hard Rock) 2. April Wine - The Nature Of The Beast (1981 - Hard Rock) 3. Finger Eleven - The Greyest Of Blue Skies (2000 - Alternative Metal) 4. Alexisonfire - Watch Out! (2004 - Metalcore, Post-Hardcore) 5. Silverstein - Discovering The Waterfront (2005 - Post-Hardcore, Metalcore) 6. Outlaws Of Ravenhurst - Book I (2011 - Hard Rock, Heavy Metal) 7. Black Wizard - Livin' Oblivion (2018 - Stoner) 8. Chron Goblin - Backwater (2015 - Stoner) 9. Monster Voodoo Machine - Suffersystem (1994 - Industrial Groove Metal) 10. Sutrah - Dunes (2017 - Technical Death Metal) 11. Tomb Mold - Planetary Clairvoyance (2019 - Death Metal) 12. VHS - We're Gonna Need Some Bigger Riffs (2019 - Grindcore, Death, Thrash) 13. Endless Chaos - Paths To Contentment (2017 - Technical Death Metal) I'll list more additions later lol.
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3223 |
Alright here's some more additions from the past few days: - - - - - - - - - - 1. Aldo Nova - Aldo Nova (1982 - Hard Rock, Glam, AOR) 2. D.O.A. - Hardcore '81 (1981 - Hardcore Punk) 3. Vengeful - The Omnipresent Curse (2009 - Technical Death Metal) 4. Bison B.C. - Dark Ages (2010 - Sludge Metal) 5. Fuck The Facts - Stigmata High-Five (2006 - Grindcore) 6. Eidolon - Coma Nation (2002 - Power Metal) 7. Skull Fist - Chasing The Dream (2014 - Speed Metal) 8. Midnight Malice - Proving Grounds (2014 - Heavy Metal) 9. Monster Truck - Sittin' Heavy (2016 - Hard Rock, Stoner Rock) 10. Altars Of Grief - Iris (2018 - Funeral Doom Metal) - - - - - - - - - - - ...I'll be continuing!!
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| Dream Taster The Enemy Within Staff Posts: 1337  |
Cool list! As a fellow Canadian, I'll suggest: Aeternam - Moongod Borealis - World of Silence
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3223 |
Written by Dream Taster on 16.08.2023 at 04:15 Thank you friend, I'll go and check those out
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3223 |
Written by Dream Taster on 16.08.2023 at 04:15 Damn those are some strong recs, thanks for pointing them out. I love Aeternam, though the theme is meh the music is absolutely great! Consider them added. Same for Borealis, superb power metal! Can't believe I never heard anything from those 2 before! Thanks a lot Dream.
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| Redel Moderator Posts: 2275 |
Some Hanker maybe? Their first two releases are nice heavy metal in the early style. I slightly prefer the debut, In Our World, I guess.
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3223 |
Written by Redel on 24.08.2023 at 17:48 Sounds really cool. I'll explore this sound a bit, thanks for the recommendation.
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3223 |
So I've added: Hanker - The Dead Ringer Thanks to Redel for pointing this band out to me. Some sweet heavy metal. After listening to most of their discography, I gotta say this is my favourite album by them. Check it out folks!
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3223 |
New Additions: S.F.H. - All You Can Eat (1994 - Heavy Metal) And B.A.R.F. - Mantra (2018 - Crossover Thrash, Hardcore) Oh yeah and Atavistia - The Winter Way (2020 - Melodic Death Metal)
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3223 |
Just updated the list to add: Wormwitch - Heaven That Dwells Within Awesome young Canadian trio that makes Black Metal and Crust Punk.
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| Guib Thrash Talker Posts: 3223 |
Just added an album that came out this year from my city. Dissimulator - Lower Form Resistance They make some great tech thrash/death. Go listen to this folks. Also added this hidden gem of a prog heavy metal album from 1986: Sacred Blade - Of The Sun + Moon Also another overlooked and hidden gem that is very unique: Beyond - Quantum Bummer (this one is progressive thrash)
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