Juno Award for Heavy Metal Album of the Year

The Juno Award for Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year is an annual award, presented by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) to honour the year's best album by a Canadian artist in the genres of heavy metal. The album is open to all subgenres of heavy metal. Rock, punk, crossover and hardcore artists are not eligible for this category.

The award was introduced by the Juno Awards in September 2011,^[1] and was presented for the first time at the 2012 Juno Awards. The five nominees and winner in the category are chosen by a panel of judges selected from the Canadian music industry. The award was named "Juno Award for Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year" in 2012, though it was renamed for the 2016 ceremony "in order to more clearly define the category criteria"^[2] before changing back in 2017.

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Year	Winner	Album	Nominees	Ref.
2012	KEN Mode	Venerable	Juggernaut of Justice – Anvil Burning Fortune – Cauldron Die Miserable – Fuck the Facts Deconstruction – Devin Townsend Project	^[3]
2013	Woods of Ypres	Woods 5: Grey Skies & Electric Light	Dead Set on Living – Cancer Bats Blacklands – Castle Epicloud – Devin Townsend Project Caligvla – Ex Deo	^[4]
2014	Protest the Hero	Volition	Heart of Oak – Anciients Colored Sands – Gorguts Entrench – KEN Mode Dead Language – The Flatliners	^[5]
2015	Devin Townsend Project	Z²	Waiting for the End to Come – Kataklysm Brotherhood of the Ram – Shooting Guns Negative Qualities – Single Mothers Chasing the Dream – Skull Fist	^[6]

Year	Winner	Album	Nominees	Ref.
2017	Mandroid Echostar	Coral Throne	Transcendence – Devin Townsend Project Pacific Myth – Protest the Hero Beast – Despised Icon Suicide Society – Annihilator	^[8]
2018	Anciients	Voice of the Void	Relentless Mutation – Archspire II: Vanishing – Longhouse Strange Peace - METZ Striker – Striker	^[9]
2019	Voivod	The Wake	Algorythm – Beyond Creation The Spark That Moves – Cancer Bats Loved – KEN Mode Prevail II – Kobra and the Lotus	^[10]
2020	Striker	Play to Win	Orphans – The Agonist Evolution – Kobra and the Lotus Martyr – Lindsay Schoolcraft Through a Wall – Single Mothers	^[11]
2021	Unleash the Archers	Abyss	Ballistic, Sadistic — Annihilator Unconquered — Kataklysm Palimpsest — Protest the Hero Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm! — Vile Creature	^[12]
2022	Archspire	Bleed the Future	Days Before the World Wept — The Agonist Eternal Blue — Spiritbox Lifeblood — Brand of Sacrifice Power Trio — Danko Jones	^[13]
2023	Voivod	Synchro Anarchy	Merciless Destruction — Get the Shot Paid in Full — Skull Fist Psychic Jailbreak — Cancer Bats Thought Form Descent — Wake	^[14]
2024	Cryptopsy	As Gomorrah Burns	Danko Jones, Electric Sounds Kataklysm, Goliath KEN Mode, Void Voivod, Morgöth Tales	^[15]
2025	Anciients	Beyond the Reach of the Sun	Kittie, Fire Spiritbox, The Fear of Fear Striker, Ultrapower Devin Townsend, PowerNerd	^[16]
2026	Despised Icon	Shadow Work	Counterparts, Heaven Let Them Die Cryptopsy, An Insatiable Violence Silverstein, Antibloom Unreqvited, A Pathway to the Moon	^[17]

Juno Award for Heavy Metal Album of the Year

Recipients

Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year (2012–2015)

Heavy Metal Album of the Year (2016)

Metal/Hard Music Album of the Year (2017–present)

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