Canadian Metal

Canadian metal is heavy metal made by bands from Canada, covering styles from early speed metal to death metal and progressive metal.

It is a grouping by country, not by sound. Ontario bands such as Anvil and Exciter played fast, raw metal in the early 1980s and influenced the thrash bands that followed. Quebec produced Voivod and most of the country's death metal bands. In the 2000s the Vancouver band Strapping Young Lad, led by Devin Townsend, drew attention to Canadian extreme metal.

Artists it is known for: Anvil, Voivod, Annihilator, Devin Townsend.

Family: Metal
On Spotify: No longer returned by Spotify’s API
What it is: A scene
From: Canada
Trackify listeners who play it: 4%

About 3,100 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have canadian metal among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.

Canadian Metal artists

The canadian metal artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.

Sources

The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.