u/shieldvortex71

Frankly, there's a crazy amount of good metal hailing from Canada across all the subgenres. Kinda hard just to pick a few.

Simple as. Any album to which you’ve shed tears; how many tears, how few doesn’t matter

Can you think of more? The more abrupt and contrasting the switch, the better.

With Alf's departure came a pretty new sound on TSD, but the sound only came to fruition and later acclaim on SotS.

Communion marked a pretty big switch in SF's sound, shedding a lot of the more avant, gothic, and hellenic-tinged sound for a more grandiose, epic one.

From DoDS to Brave Murder Day, Katatonia approached their sound a lot differently with a less-blackened and more serene and gaze-like approach.

I think people overstate the amount of Viking-ness is on BFD, at least, in comparison to Hammerheart. BFD is still pretty centered in black/thrash goodness where Hammerheart is riffing Manowar and other epic metal to its heart's content. I don't hear much black metal on it whatsoever, barring the harsher vocals.

War Master could be looked at as a bridge between the sounds but The IVth Crusade is noticeably more groovey and even slightly doomy than that album ever was. Generally, I associate the album more with their previous more straight grindy and death metal era characterized by Realm of Chaos.

I thought about comparing The Somberlain to Storm of the Light's Bane but they are generally the same genre even if the songwriting approach is different and the riffs too. A similar thought goes for Pure Holocaust to At the Heart of Winter.

Of these, which albums/eras do you prefer from these bands?