Canada Metal & Hard Rock Albums of the 2020s

The Moth finds DEVIN TOWNSEND shaping huge progressive-metal sound design, ambient space and introspective melody into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

The band's first live album with a symphony orchestra, recorded with the Orchestre symphonique de Quebec in Quebec City on 4 June 2025.

Chasing Euphoria is a useful way to hear HAREM SCAREM from a different angle within the 2025 catalogue.

A four-CD, fifty-track anthology for the band’s fiftieth year, running from both sides of the 1973 debut single through vault recordings and live versions.

PowerNerd keeps DEVIN TOWNSEND’s layered imagination intact while shifting the center of gravity toward shorter, more direct song power.

Ultrapower is a high-voltage record that amplifies the pleasures of heavy metal in a straight line.

Face Your Fears places Harry Hess’s warm, soaring voice at the center of a carefully shaped AOR and melodic-rock record.

Tomb Mold's fourth studio album, from September 2023, announced only four days before it appeared.

Nine songs from across the band's history re-recorded by the current line-up for their fortieth anniversary, plus a new title song and one cover.

Lightwork retains Devin Townsend’s talent for enormous walls of sound while giving them more air and calm than some of his recent work.

Closer to the Edge places Harry Hess’s warm yet focused voice at the center of polished melodic rock.

Get Rollin', Nickelback's first studio album in years, delivers thick guitars, Chad Kroeger's rough voice and memorable choruses without fuss.

Voivod's fifteenth studio album, from February 2022, written by sending files back and forth when the band could not travel.

Archspire's fourth studio album, from October 2021, and winner of the 2022 Juno Award for Metal/Hard Music Album.

The Puzzle / Snuggles is a useful way to hear DEVIN TOWNSEND from a different angle within the 2021 catalogue.

Spiritbox's debut album, from September 2021, by the two members who left Iwrestledabearonce to form the band.

Ballistic, Sadistic condenses the speed, odd turns and black humor associated with Jeff Waters’ Annihilator.

Change the World brings together Harem Scarem’s strengths—smart chord movement, muscular guitar and unforgettable choruses—with a high level of finish.