# 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 (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, 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)

| Year | Winner | Album | Nominees |
| 2012 | KEN Mode | Venerable | Juggernaut of Justice – Anvil Burning Fortune – Cauldron Die Miserable – Fuck the Facts Deconstruction – Devin Townsend Project |
| 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 |
| 2014 | Protest the Hero | Volition | Heart of Oak – Anciients Colored Sands – Gorguts Entrench – KEN Mode Dead Language – The Flatliners |
| 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 |

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

| Year | Winner | Album | Nominees |
| 2016 | Kataklysm | Of Ghosts and Gods | Searching for Zero – Cancer Bats Never Wanna Die – Diemonds Desire Will Rot – Fuck the Facts Success – KEN Mode |
| 2017 | Mandroid Echostar | Coral Throne | Transcendence – Devin Townsend Project Pacific Myth – Protest the Hero Beast – Despised Icon Suicide Society – Annihilator |
| 2018 | Anciients | Voice of the Void | Relentless Mutation – Archspire II: Vanishing – Longhouse Strange Peace - METZ Striker – Striker |
| 2019 | Voivod | The Wake | Algorythm – Beyond Creation The Spark That Moves – Cancer Bats Loved – KEN Mode Prevail II – Kobra and the Lotus |
| 2020 | Striker | Play to Win | Orphans – The Agonist Evolution – Kobra and the Lotus Martyr – Lindsay Schoolcraft Through a Wall – Single Mothers |
| 2021 | Unleash the Archers | Abyss | Ballistic, Sadistic — Annihilator Unconquered — Kataklysm Palimpsest — Protest the Hero Glory, Glory! Apathy Took Helm! — Vile Creature |
| 2022 | Archspire | Bleed the Future | Days Before the World Wept — The Agonist Eternal Blue — Spiritbox Lifeblood — Brand of Sacrifice Power Trio — Danko Jones |
| 2023 | Voivod | Synchro Anarchy | Merciless Destruction — Get the Shot Paid in Full — Skull Fist Psychic Jailbreak — Cancer Bats Thought Form Descent — Wake |
| 2024 | Cryptopsy | As Gomorrah Burns | Danko Jones, Electric Sounds Kataklysm, Goliath KEN Mode, Void Voivod, Morgöth Tales |
| 2025 | TBA | TBA | Anciients, Beyond the Reach of the Sun Kittie, Fire Spiritbox, The Fear of Fear Striker, Ultrapower Devin Townsend, PowerNerd |