In celebration of Canada Day - a yearly event/holiday celebrating the anniversary of July 1st, 1867, which united three British colonies into a single country under the British Empire called Canada - we are counting down the key heavy musical masterworks in our history. Hence the the 30 Best Canadian Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Albums Of All-Time countdown which will run daily throughout July!

We've asked the BW&BK; scribes to list their faves of all-time and now we can present you with the list. And we will count-down one-a-day for 30 days! What better way to spent the dog days of summer than to visit BraveWords.com and check out which fine Canuck metal needs to be in your collection!

Without further adieu, let's keep rockin' eh!

27) GORGUTS - Obscura (Olympic - 1998)

Fearless Sherbrooke, Quebec progressive death mavens GORGUTS have garnered pretty much more underground cache around the world than any other band from the highly evolved and competitive death metal scene in that province with their first two landmark release: Considered Dead (1991) and The Erosion of Sanity (1993). Obscura, the band’s third album, however, found Gorguts dropped from Roadrunner and moving down the chain to Olympic. That didn’t stop the four-piece (leader/guitarist/vocalist Luc Lemay, guitarist/vocalist Steeve Hurdle, bassist Steve Cloutier and drummer Patrick Robert) and producer Pierre Rémillard (VOIVOD, CRYPTOPSY, KATAKLYSM) from pouring their blackened hearts into acrobatic, visceral, blinding death full up with chops and the exploratory zeal and spirit of the genre’s fallen hero, Chuck Schuldiner (DEATH, CONTROL DENIED legend).

The Top 30 Canadian Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Albums Of All-Time!

#30) TRIUMPH – Allied Forces (Attic – 1981)

#29) INTO ETERNITY - The Scattering Of Ashes (Century Media - 2006)

#28) WOODS OF YPRES - Against The Seasons: Cold Winter Songs From The Dead Summer Heat (Krackenhaus - 2002)

#27) GORGUTS - Obscura (Olympic - 1998)