Top 10 Best Metal Bands from Montreal, Canada

Cryptopsy

Cryptopsy is a Canadian technical death metal band from Montreal, Quebec, formed in 1988. The band has sold over 300,000 records worldwide. They are known for their complex compositions and have been influential in the development of the technical death metal genre.

Cryptopsy is the heaviest Canadian export - brutal technical death metal. They are the metal pride of my home city and one of Canada's most acclaimed metal bands.

Kataklysm

Kataklysm is a Canadian death metal band. They describe their musical style as "northern hyperblast," a term first used in a M.E.A.T. magazine advertisement. The band has been active since 1991 and has released numerous albums.

A death metal band - they call their musical style "northern hyperblast," referring to the extremely fast blast beats that Kataklysm's former drummer, Max Duhamel, fused into the music.

Quo Vadis

Quo Vadis was a technical melodic death metal band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, formed in 1992 by Bart Frydrychowicz, Yanic Bercier, and Arie Itman. The band was named after the novel by Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz. Known for their complex compositions, they released several albums including Day... read more

They play a rare metal subgenre - technical melodic death metal. I definitely like them.
Songs: Silence Calls the Storm, Point of No Return: Mute Requiem, Break the Cycle, On the Shores of Ithaka.Q

Beyond Creation

Beyond Creation is a Canadian technical death metal band from Montreal, Quebec. They are currently signed to Season of Mist records. The band is known for their complex compositions and has released several albums, including Algorythm and Earthborn Evolution.

Dead Brain Cells

Dead Brain Cells are a Canadian thrash metal band from the late 1980s. Known as DBC, the band began in 1985 in Montreal as a project called Final Chapter, started by guitarists Eddie Shahini and Gerry Ouellette, who placed a magazine ad seeking a drummer. They released two albums, Dead Brain Cells (1987... read more

Basically a thrash band. Subgenres - Technical/progressive thrash metal, Thrash metal, Speed metal, Crossover thrash. Some of their songs sound like Thrash meets Pink Floyd and I find it interesting.
I like them a lot (for more details and song samples visit my list "Top 10 Dead Brain Cells Songs").

Augury

The Agonist

The Agonist is a Canadian extreme metal band formed in Montreal, Quebec in 2004. The current members include guitarists Danny Marino and Pascal Jobin, bassist Chris Kells, drummer Simon McKay, and vocalist Vicky Psarakis. Psarakis joined the band in March 2014 after the departure of founding vocalist... read more

They play melodic death metal and metalcore and are known for their female singers (Alissa White-Gluz left to join Arch Enemy).

Neuraxis

Neuraxis is a Canadian death metal band that was formed in Montreal in 1994. The band plays a mix of technical and melodic death metal. Over the years, they have released several albums and built a strong following in the metal music scene.

Technical death metal, melodic death metal.
Formed in 1994, they have released six studio albums. In 2007, the band participated in the Domination Tour alongside Rotting Christ, Incantation, and Malevolent Creation. After touring, the band released a live album entitled Live Progression.

Unexpect

Avant-garde metal, formed in 1996 and disbanded in 2015.
They play a unique amalgamation of different metal subgenres like progressive, technical death, black and melodic heavy metal, and of other styles of music including classical, dark cabaret, opera, jazz, funk, electro, ambient, noise, and circus music. The band's debut album was called Utopia.

Blackguard

Blackguard is a melodic death metal band from Montréal, Canada, previously known as Profugus Mortis. Formed in 2001 as a black metal band, they later evolved their sound to include more melodic and symphonic elements.

They are known for their female drummer Justine "Juice" Éthier. The band has... read more

A melodic death metal band, formed in 2001, known for their female drummer. Song to start with - Firefight.

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Spectral Wound

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Atramentus

A Perfect Murder

Beneath the Massacre

Beneath the Massacre is a Canadian metal band formed in 2004. They are known for playing a blend of deathcore, technical death metal, and heavy metal. In 2009, the band was nominated for "Best Underground Band" at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards.

Deathcore, Technical death metal, Heavy metal. They released their debut album in 2005 (Evidence of Inequity).
In 2009, Beneath the Massacre was nominated as "Best Underground Band" at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards. They played the Summer Slaughter Tour with Decapitated, Necrophagist, As Blood Runs Black, The Faceless, Ion Dissonance, and Cephalic Carnage. They were also on the 2007 Radio Rebellion Tour along with Behemoth, Gojira, and Job for a Cowboy.
Albums:
Mechanics of Dysfunction, Evidence of Inequity, Incongruous, plus more.

Anonymus

Groovy Aardvark

Karkaos

Karkaos is a female-fronted melodic death metal band from Quebec, Canada. They are known for blending melodic instrumentation with harsh vocals. The group has released two studio albums and performed at multiple metal festivals.

Female-fronted melodic death metal band.

Incarnia

Incarnia was a Canadian melodic death metal band from Montreal, formed in 2006. The band released one full-length studio album, Proclamation, in 2010 before disbanding in 2011. They were known for combining aggressive guitar riffs with melodic elements typical of the genre.

Sword

Eudoxis

Negativa

Technical death metal, avant-garde metal. Formed in 1994 and disbanded in 2010.

Ex Deo

Death metal, Viking metal. Albums: Caligvla, Romulus.
Ex Deo was formed in 2008 and is a side project of Kataklysm frontman Maurizio Iacono, based on the history of the Roman Empire. In 2014 they put the band on indefinite hold and said a third album is unlikely.
UPDATE: Third album comes out in February 2017 (The Immortal Wars). Judging by some samples, it's going to be very good.

Voivod

Voivod is a Canadian heavy metal band from Jonquière, Québec. Their musical style has evolved over time, incorporating elements of thrash, progressive, and industrial metal since their formation in the early 1980s. The band's current lineup includes Denis "Snake" Bélanger (vocals), Daniel "Chewy" Mongrain... read more

Gorguts

Gorguts is a Canadian technical death metal band formed in Sherbrooke, Quebec, in 1989. The band's only constant member throughout its history has been guitarist and vocalist Luc Lemay. Gorguts is known for its complex compositions and has been influential within the technical death metal subgenre.