TOP CANADIAN ALBUMS – Individual Top 5s

MELISSA ANDREWS
1. Voivod – Infini – Sonic Unyon/Relapse
2. Cauldron – Chained to the Night – Earache
3. Sacrifice – The Ones I Condemn – Sonic Unyon/Marquee
4. Devin Townsend – Ki – Inside Out
5. Woods of Ypres -the Green Album – Practical Art

ADRIEN BEGRAND
1. Augury – Fragmentary Evidence – Goodfellow/Nuclear Blast
2. Voivod – Infini – Sonic Unyon/Relapse
3. 3 Inches of Blood – Here Waits Thy Doom – Century Media
4. Ex Deo – Romulus
5. Sacrifice – The Ones I Condemn – Sonic Unyon/Marquee

KEITH CARMAN
1. Sacrifice – The Ones I Condemn – Sonic Unyon/Marquee
2. Voivod – Infini – Sonic Unyon/Relapse
3. Propagandhi – Supporting Caste – Smallman
4. 3 Inches Of Blood – Here Waits Thy Doom – Century Media
5. Titan – Colossus – Feast Or Famine

JAY GORANIA
1. VOIVOD – Infini – Sonic Unyon/Relapse
2. DEVIN TOWNSEND – Ki – Inside Out
3. DEVIN TOWNSEND – Addicted – E1 Records/Inside Out
4. EX DEO – Romulus – Nuclear Blast
5. DESPISED ICON – Day of Mourning – Century Media

GRUESOME GREG
1. Electric Magma – Mudshovel – indie
2. Sons of OTIS – Exiled – Small Stone
3. Les Ekorches – IV Demons – Indica
4. The Womb – This is the Doomlodge – indie
5. Nadja – The Sun Always Shines On TV – The End Records

ROB HUGHES
1. Voivod – Infini – Sonic Unyon/Relapse

2. Woods of Ypres – Woods 4: The Green Album – Practical Art

3. Musk Ox – s/t – Absurdist

ROB KACHLUBA
1. Sacrifice – The Ones I Condemn – Sonic Unyon/Marquee
2. Voivod – Infini – Sonic Unyon/Relapse
3. Cauldron – Chained to the Nite – Earache
4. Southern Cross – Down Below – Indie
5. Threat Signal – Vilgilence – Nuclear Blast

MATT LEWIS
1. Devin Townsend – Ki – Inside Out
2. Sacrifice – The Ones I Condemn – Sonic Unyon/Marquee
3. Protest the Hero – Gallop Meets The Earth – Underground Operations
4. Baptized in Blood – Gutterbound – Indie
5. Starring Janet Leigh – Spectrum – Black Market Activities/Metal Blade

ALBERT MANSOUR
1. Sacrifice – The Ones I Condemn – Sonic Unyon/Marquee
2. Voivod – Infini – Sonic Unyon/Relapse
3. Ex Deo – Romulus – Nuclear Blast
4. Devin Townsend Project – Addicted – E1 Records/Inside Out
5. Cauldron – Chained To The Nite – Earache

VICTOR MANSOUR
1. Agah Bahari – The Second Sight of a Mind – Unicorn Records
2. Karcius – Episodes – Unicorn Records
3. Nathan Mahl – Exodus – Unicorn Records
4. Jellyfiche – Tout ce que j´ai rêvé – Unicorn Records
5. Direction – Direction – Unicorn Records

METAL GEORGE PACHECO
1.Cauldron – Chained To The Nite – Earache
2. Bionic – Black Blood – Signed By Force
3. Fiftywatthead – Fogcutter – Signed By Force
4. Tenet – Sovereign – Century Media
5. Woods Of Ypres – Woods IV: The Green Album – Practical Art

DAVE SANDERS
1. 3 Inches of Blood – Here Waits Thy Doom – Century Media
2. Woods of Ypres – Woods IV: The Green Album – Practical Art Records
3. Ex Deo – Romulus – Nuclear Blast
4. Devin Townsend Project – Addicted – HevyDevy
5. Voivod – Infini – Sonic Unyon

JONATHAN SMITH
1. Musk Ox – s/t – Absurdist Records
2. The Devin Townsend Project – Addicted! – Inside Out Music
3. A Storm of Light/Nadja – Primitive North – Robotic Empire
4. Augury – Fragmentary Evidence – Goodfellow/Nuclear Blast
5. The Devin Townsend Project – Ki – Inside Out

KEVIN STEWART-PANKO
1. KEN MODE – Mennonite – Arctodus
2. BURIED INSIDE – Spoils of Failure – Relapse
3. THREE INCHES OF BLOOD – Here Waits Thy Doom – Century Media
4. SACRIFICE – The Ones I Condemn – Sonic Unyon/Marquee
5. WEAPON – Drakonian Paradigm – Ajna Offensive

LAURA WIEBE TAYLOR
1. Devin Townsend – Addicted – Inside Out
2. Voivod – Infini – Sonic Unyon
3. Ex Deo – Romulus – Nuclear Blast
4. Sacrifice – The Ones I Condemn – Sonic Unyon/Marquee
5. Woods of Ypres – Woods 4/The Green Album – Practical Art

ADAM WILLS
1. Woods of Ypres – W4: The Green Album – Practical Art
2. Devin Townsend – Addicted – E1 Canada/Inside out
3. Augury – Fragmentary Evidence – Goodfellow/Nuclear Blast
4. Cauldron – Chained to the Nite – Earache
5. Sacrifice – The Ones I Condemn – Sonic Unyon/Marquee

Sean is the founder/publisher of Hellbound.ca; he has also written about metal for Exclaim!, Metal Maniacs, Roadburn, Unrestrained! and Vice.