Wacken Metal Battle Cananda has announced the lineup for this year's national final on June 11th in Toronto, ON at The Opera House for One Band To Rule Them All and play at Wacken Open Air 2016 in Wacken, Germany, which holds an attendance of over 80,000 metalheads from around the world. After battle rounds across the country during the months of January to May, the following bands listed below will be judged by a panel of industry professionals (to be announced at a later date) during their performance plus will be joined by special guest headliners and 2013 WMBC champions Crimson Shadows.

"The National Final is upon us once again. In the name of Canadian metal, and in honour of all who have participated and supported the 2016 Metal Battle, we're very proud to present some of Canada's finest metal acts. Let us rally together and give the winning band a proper send off to Germany." comments WMBC organizer JJ Tartaglia.

Special guest headliner – Crimson Shadows (2013 WMBC Champions)

Finalists:

Tales Of The Bomb (Edmonton) – Prairie Final Winner
Profaner (Hamilton) – Ontario 1st Final Winner
Pyramid Theorem (Toronto) – Ontario 2nd Final Winner
The Mountain Man (Vancouver) – BC Final Winner
Distorthead (Montreal) – Quebec Final Winner

The national final winner will also be given a drummer prize pack from Los Cabos Drumsticks that includes 12 pairs of sticks of their choosing, a stick bag, a practice pad, and other Los Cabos Drumsticks swag plus automatic eligibility for endorsement (full details here). This year's runner up will receive a prize from our media partner PureGrainAudio.com, which will be giving a promotional package (valued at approximately $3k) that includes a video interview shot and edited by PureGrainAudio, a featured contest of the band's choosing (giveaway of signed merch, music, etc.), a free song download article that's featured at the very top of PureGrainAudio's Audio section for at least 1 week, a photo shoot with the band (either a live show shoot or band pics.) and one month free web banner advertisement on the site. 

This is WMBC's fourth year hosting the competition across country in Vancouver, Edmonton, Calgary, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Regina, London, Hamilton, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal. For the last three years that Wacken Metal Battle has been held in Canada, it has produced two world champions Vesperia (2015) and Crimson Shadows (2013) to triumph at the international Wacken Metal Battle beating out over 30 other representing countries from around the globe.