Juno Award for Heavy Metal Album of the Year


The Juno Award for Heavy Metal Album of the Year is an annual award, presented by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences to honor 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, 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" from 2011 to 2015, and it was renamed for the 2016 ceremony "in order to more clearly define the category criteria".

Recipients

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

YearWinnerAlbumNomineesRef.
2012KEN modeVenerable
2013Woods of Ypres
  • Dead Set on Living – Cancer Bats
  • Blacklands – Castle
  • Epicloud – Devin Townsend Project
  • Caligvla – Ex Deo
    • 2014Protest the HeroVolition
  • Heart of Oak – Anciients
  • Colored Sands – Gorguts
  • Entrench – KEN mode
  • Dead Language – The Flatliners
    • 2015Devin Townsend ProjectZ²
  • Waiting for the End to Come – Kataklysm
  • Brotherhood of the Ram – Shooting Guns
  • Negative Qualities – Single Mothers
  • Chasing the Dream – Skull Fist

    • Heavy Metal Album of the Year (2016–present)

    YearWinnerAlbumNomineesRef.
    2016KataklysmOf Ghosts and Gods
    • Searching for Zero – Cancer Bats
    • Never Wanna Die – Diemonds
    • Desire Will Rot – Fuck the Facts
    • Success – KEN mode
    2017Mandroid EchostarCoral Throne
  • Transcendence – Devin Townsend Project
  • Pacific Myth – Protest the Hero
  • Beast – Despised Icon
  • Suicide Society – Annihilator
    • 2018AnciientsVoice of the Void
  • Relentless Mutation – Archspire
  • II: Vanishing – Longhouse
  • Strange Peace - METZ
  • Striker – Striker
    • 2019VoivodThe Wake
  • Algorythm – Beyond Creation
  • The Spark That Moves – Cancer Bats
  • Loved – KEN mode
  • Prevail II – Kobra and the Lotus
    • 2020StrikerPlay to Win
  • Orphans – The Agonist
  • Evolution – Kobra and the Lotus
  • Martyr – Lindsay Schoolcraft
  • Through a Wall – Single Mothers